No room, no time… no problem.
Yesterday Vinacapital held their annual investor’s conference at the Sofitel Metropole in Hanoi. I’ve worked on several assignments with them in the past, and am always happy to get a phone call from them. My assignment this time was to setup a studio on-location and make portraits of the staff and investors during their coffee [...]
Goodbye Digital Railroad… Hello Photoshelter
The end came quickly, but not without warning. Digital Railroad, an online image archive service that I’ve been using for the past few years, has shut down. Earlier today (4:20am, while I was still asleep), members received this message: October 28, 2008 To our valued Members and Partners: We deeply regret to inform you that [...]
The state of the working photographer today
Here’s a fascinating article written by Vincent Laforet, a former staff photographer with the NYTimes. He talks about the general hard times in the media industry at the moment, and in particular how this affects photographers. There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the air these days, and for good reason. Assignment rates have [...]