Ian MacLellan

freelance photographer and filmmaker in Portland, ME

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  • Sunday Run in Cape

    Sunday Run in Cape

    A new potential client reached out for some summer New England trail running photos with strong summer vibes. They mentioned costumes and my friend Emma Sloan knew just what the runners should wear. She and my wife Emma (also an Emma S) sported two colorful tracksuits from her mom’s time on the US Olympic Marathon […]

    Ian MacLellan

    May 12, 2022
    Running
    cape elizabeth, maine, photography, Running, trail running
  • Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan for The New York Times

    Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan for The New York Times

    A little before Christmas, I got an email from an editor at The New York Times to photograph a story on Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan down in Providence, where he used to live. This wasn’t my first portrait assignment for the Times but I’d only done a handful of stories for them before […]

    Ian MacLellan

    April 26, 2022
    Client Work
    New York Times, Photojournalism, providence
  • The First 100 Days of the Year

    The First 100 Days of the Year

    I’ve posted the first 100 days of the ninth straight year of my Days in a Year project and it feels a lot like the marathon training I’m currently a few months into. It never really gets easier, every run and every photo takes effort and showing up and sometimes you find these moments of […]

    Ian MacLellan

    April 11, 2022
    Days in a year recap
  • Providence Parks for The Trust for Public Land

    Providence Parks for The Trust for Public Land

    As a kid, Providence was cool to me because it hosted a big skateboarding competition called Gravity Games and we would get Awful Awfuls at Newport Creamery. As an adult, Providence is cool because it’s a human-focused city that’s revitalizing greenspace and making it safer and easier to get around as a pedestrian or cyclist. […]

    Ian MacLellan

    April 5, 2022
    Client Work
    providence, rhode island, trust for public land
  • Five Years of MIT Fellowship Portraits

    Five Years of MIT Fellowship Portraits

    I was going through some recent archives as I update my portfolio website and was struck by the mountains of portraits I’ve taken at MIT over the years. Most of this work has been for the MIT News website but I’ve also done some special projects for different departments. For the past five years, I’ve […]

    Ian MacLellan

    March 3, 2022
    Portraits
    education, higher ed, MIT, portrait photography
  • The Vermont town that bought a ski mountain

    The Vermont town that bought a ski mountain

    Yesterday, the Times ran a story on Mount Ascutney in Vermont where I had photographed a story back in 2017 for The Trust for Public Land. We had actually planned on photographing the story in the winter of 2016 but there wasn’t enough snow so we pushed everything back a year. The story started in […]

    Ian MacLellan

    February 3, 2022
    Client Work
    skiing, snow, trust for public land, vermont, winter
  • Trees from the road

    Trees from the road

    Back in December, I traveled around the country for a few weeks for a client. I knew I’d be spending just a night in each location with almost a dozen flights and rental cars over the course of the trip. I needed a meta-game to keep myself sane with the long days of travel and […]

    Ian MacLellan

    February 1, 2022
    Daily wanderings
  • Portland, ME Blizzard

    Portland, ME Blizzard

    I love snowstorms and last weekend was a great one in Portland. Right now, my wife, Emma, and I are grappling with how to be out in nature without having to drive so darn much to reach it. We are hopefully selling our “outdoorsy” Subaru later this week to spend more time outside on an […]

    Ian MacLellan

    January 31, 2022
    Daily wanderings
    maine, portland, winter
  • Janji 2021 Videos

    Janji 2021 Videos

    I’m currently reading Bernd Heinrich’s new book “Racing the Clock” on how his last nearly 80 years of running and thinking about the natural world have intertwined. Heinrich has lived in Western Maine on and off since childhood and many of the ultramarathon records he set were on a track not that far from my […]

    Ian MacLellan

    January 19, 2022
    Running, Uncategorized
    filmmaking, janji, Running, travel
  • I’m Not A 0° Surfer

    I’m Not A 0° Surfer

    Last weekend, nice clean waves were headed to the beaches of Scarborough, ME, the closest surf town to our home in Portland. The webcam looked great and a few friends texted about jumping in. I said no. It was also below 0° most of the weekend and really windy. I’ll happily run, walk, and bike […]

    Ian MacLellan

    January 17, 2022
    Surfing
    higgins beach, maine, scarborough, Surfing
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