I’ve never been an assistant during my career in photography. And only in the last 4 or 5 years have I really been using assistants. (Shockingly, we didn’t get assistants as newspaper photographers. Unless you count the occasional PR person holding our off-camera flash.)
Any photographer who utilizes assistants has a huge collection of images of [...]

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I finally found the ad, which I produced for Martin Guitars last winter, in print. This was in the premier issue of Guitar Afficiando magazine. It was one of the coldest shoots that I’ve been on for a long time. So big ups go out to Tierney Art Buyer Wylie Moran, Art Director Andy Benson [...]

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Great article in the Sunday New York Times about Google offering no pay, but “great exposure” for artists that give them illustrations for Google’s Chrome browser customized “skins.”
“The first question I asked,” Mr. Taxali said in a recent interview, “is ‘What’s the fee?’”
Mr. Taxali said that when he was told Google would pay nothing, [...]

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Big ups to AFP photographer Mike Clarke for taking the shot.

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Interesting look by Emily Bazelon at the difficulties of freelancing in this economy:
Recession Takes a Toll on Freelance Livelihoods – NYTimes.com
“Venkatesh sees a difference in how freelancers talk about the recession compared with workers who have been laid off. “They’re more alone, and they can’t help but feel like they did something wrong because they’re [...]

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I finally got my hands on a copy of the April issue of Architectural Record magazine. They gave nice play to a portrait that I made of a group of students at the Charter High School for Architecture and Design (CHAD) here in Philadelphia. I got to sit in a few classes at this great [...]

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