The kids are in Composition and Design this week with Robert Severi, an accomplished commercial photographer in the District and all around cool fella. Yesterday we set them loose on the mall with the only assignment being to come back at the end of the day with 10 images. That’s the kind of freedom that a professional photographer, as Bob would tell you, dreams of. Bob was telling me about two assignments he had in the same week a few years ago. Early in the week, he had to shoot Magic Johnson for Pepsi and then a few days later he had to take some abstract architectural images of a building for that building’s website. In the first assignment, he had to deal with Pepsi’s Art Director, handlers, assistants, lighting setups, a celebrity, etc. In the other assignment, it was just his camera and creativity.
It’s a great assignment, albeit a difficult one, trying to find the interesting in the everyday…I tried to focus on architecture.
This entry was posted on March 10, 2010 by DavePhillipich. It was filed under Black and White, General, TA and was tagged with Architecture, Black and White, David Phillipich, Washington DC.
awe.some. I want to be one of your ‘kids’.
Made me smile to hear YOU say ‘the kids’, not that long ago I remember some ‘kids’ moving in next door, they’re gone now so it is a lot quieter around here. I miss the noise….