| On Assignment Archive

Minneapolis

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

It’s been a busy week, and today was the first day back in the office. My last assignment before the long weekend was in Minneapolis, and after some trials and a frightening run in with a corrupt flash card, I’m back. Overall I feel pretty good about the shoots thus far and now I’m getting [...]

Chicago

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

I am in Chicago for a shoot, then off to Minneapolis this afternoon for another shoot. It’s hectic and I’m tired of traveling alone – the excitement of traveling for photography has worn off. I miss Dr. Girlfriend and I’m ready to come home. The work itself is still exciting. I even got up early [...]

Corporate Event Photography

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

One of the aspects of my job is to shoot events. It’s one of the things that I am least good at, and although when I look at my work over the years it’s clear that I’m improving, at the end I feel unsatisfied. I am never 100% happy with the work I produce at [...]

What I did today….

Friday, November 21st, 2008

More on this later.

Business Meeting

Friday, November 14th, 2008

I had to shoot a meeting the other day and was faced with one of the common challenges with my job: create publication worthy marketing images of real people, while they are having a real meeting, without disrupting the meeting. When I say marketing images, I’m basically referring to stock-style images rather than reportage. This [...]

The View

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Last week, I mentioned a shoot on the streets of New York commissioned by our London office. Apparently they were pleased with the shots that I delivered and asked me for another shoot. This one, however, was to be a landscape of a city. Because it’s being used for the cover of a global publication, [...]

A good week

Friday, September 26th, 2008

I don’t have a ton of time to do a full post, so I wanted to share a preview of a project I shot this week. I’m really excited with the results, and I’ll share the full story as soon as I have time write it up. In the meantime, here is a small sample [...]

Working So Hard You Get Carpal Tunnel

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

One of my clients wanted to add some images of people with disabilities to the library of stock they keep for the company. So over the last few weeks I’ve been shooting people signing, a guy in a wheelchair, crutches tucked into the corner of an otherwise standard office scene etc. I think it’s amusing [...]



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Jonathan Gayman is a corporate photographer and design consultant in New York City. He also likes to talk a lot of smack here on Exhibit 5a.

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