Vincent Laforet
by Skip Cohen
Wikipedia's opening paragraph describes Vincent Laforet as:
...a French American director and photographer. Laforet shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography with two other photographers as a member of The New York Times staff's coverage of the post 9/11 events overseas that captured "the pain and the perseverance of people enduring protracted conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan."[1] In 2006, Laforet became the Times' s first national contract photographer.[2] He has been sent on assignment by Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek...
So there are the basics, but let's take it a step further from my perspective...he's simply a great guy. He's passionate about every video and every image he captures, never compromising on the quality of any production. When he spoke at Skip's Summer School in 2011, he made it clear to every attendee that imaging is one of those career paths where you never stop learning, experimenting and pushing the edge of the envelope.
We're ecstatic to have Vincent join the faculty of SCU and thought the best place for you to get to know him better was through an interview done at least five years ago. He made the following comment a few years later:
"I think this interview was extremely well done and captured who I was then – having just left the staff of The New York Times and having entered the freelance commercial photography market for a little over a year at that point. This brings me to to another interesting thing that I’ve noticed over the past two years: even though I’m always focused on what’s happening now, what I’m talking about now in this very immediate world – people still somehow always seem to be reading 1, 2 or even in this case 4-year-old articles – of what I consider to be “old news.”
So, I'm guilty of perpetuating "old news", but there's a favorite expression I've quoted a lot from Tennyson, "I am a part of all that I have met." For me the fun part of knowing Vincent is understanding a little of his artistic past and the path he's taken to be here today. For the most contemporary view of Vincent, click on his gear page below. It'll bring you right up to the minute with the creative tools he uses to pursue his craft today.
Stay tuned and in the weeks and months ahead we'll keep you plugged into Vincent's latest projects and ideas to help you build your own skill set and grow.
Wikipedia's opening paragraph describes Vincent Laforet as:
...a French American director and photographer. Laforet shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography with two other photographers as a member of The New York Times staff's coverage of the post 9/11 events overseas that captured "the pain and the perseverance of people enduring protracted conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan."[1] In 2006, Laforet became the Times' s first national contract photographer.[2] He has been sent on assignment by Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek...
So there are the basics, but let's take it a step further from my perspective...he's simply a great guy. He's passionate about every video and every image he captures, never compromising on the quality of any production. When he spoke at Skip's Summer School in 2011, he made it clear to every attendee that imaging is one of those career paths where you never stop learning, experimenting and pushing the edge of the envelope.
We're ecstatic to have Vincent join the faculty of SCU and thought the best place for you to get to know him better was through an interview done at least five years ago. He made the following comment a few years later:
"I think this interview was extremely well done and captured who I was then – having just left the staff of The New York Times and having entered the freelance commercial photography market for a little over a year at that point. This brings me to to another interesting thing that I’ve noticed over the past two years: even though I’m always focused on what’s happening now, what I’m talking about now in this very immediate world – people still somehow always seem to be reading 1, 2 or even in this case 4-year-old articles – of what I consider to be “old news.”
So, I'm guilty of perpetuating "old news", but there's a favorite expression I've quoted a lot from Tennyson, "I am a part of all that I have met." For me the fun part of knowing Vincent is understanding a little of his artistic past and the path he's taken to be here today. For the most contemporary view of Vincent, click on his gear page below. It'll bring you right up to the minute with the creative tools he uses to pursue his craft today.
Stay tuned and in the weeks and months ahead we'll keep you plugged into Vincent's latest projects and ideas to help you build your own skill set and grow.
The Basics of Time Lapse Photography
by Skip Cohen
Whether you're into time lapse photography or not, this is an outstanding educational piece to help take you through the process. Plus it'll give you a chance to get to know Vincent Laforet just a little bit better!
Whether you're into time lapse photography or not, this is an outstanding educational piece to help take you through the process. Plus it'll give you a chance to get to know Vincent Laforet just a little bit better!