Photography and the "Way-Back Machine" - WPPI 2007

by Skip Cohen

​I've shared a lot of WPPI images over the years, and because Graphi did a new album every year back then, I'm loaded with great memories for Throwback Thursdays. So here's the short backstory:

In 2005 Maureen Neises, president of Graphi Studio, hit me with an idea - to produce an annual day-in-the-life of WPPI album featuring four different photographers. It was a perfect way to capture different perspectives on the convention each year.

In 2007, the photographers on the project were Catherine Hall, Jim Garner, Calvin Hayes, and Victor Sizemore. These are images that were part of a stunning two-page spread in the album.

WPPI was a huge part of my life back then. And while I may have left to head out on my own in 2009, nothing changes the smiles all those years bring back. Although most of us have a love/hate relationship with Facebook, it's been the mortar that keeps us all in touch. While it's been fifteen years I still catch up to so many friends from those days.

As I've written many times in the past, the best thing about this industry has nothing to do with photography directly but the friendships that come out of everyone's love for the craft!

If you haven't gone on the hunt for your own Throwback Thursday images today, just do it! Find a couple of old photos that make you smile and remind you of the importance photographs play in our lives...and your clients!

Happy Throwback Thursday!

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