Professional Photography



INTRODUCTION

 

 

 

I BEGAN WORKING WITH PROfESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS and professional photography on January 6, 1986. As a first year student studying graphic design at St. Martin’s School of Art in London, I had secured myself a two-week internship at the recently launched Elle magazine. Those two weeks did not end until 1991, when as the art director I left to begin work in the hallowed corridors of Vogue House at Tatler magazine. Those formative early years at Elle were a time of knives and glue–which was how magazines were constructed before the computer-well staffed teams, copious advertising revenue, and generous photographic budgets. Communication was by phone or fax–although this was seen as something that ...