Exposure

Images do Our Heavy Lifting

You need a bigger screen

Know how things in your rearview mirror appear closer than they seem? We're much more talented and impressive on devices bigger than your phone.

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FOLIO

…context completes the narrative.

Photos Do Our Heavy Lifting

Matt Ruff, Author of Bad Monkeys and Lovecraft Country

Craig Mundie, SVP Consumer Strategy, Microsoft

Alhadeffs for National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Betty Hedreen for National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Admiral Herb Bridge, CEO Ben Bridge Jeweler

Bill Gates, CEO/Chief Architect of Microsoft

Maria, Poet/Writer, Madrid

Litigation Group, Gordon Thomas Honeywell

Women Partners, Gordon Thomas Honeywell

Neal Black, Attorney/Partner, Adkins/Black

Wine Blending Trials, Cadence Winery

Jackson Schmidt, Attorney/Musician

Lia Knight of syndicated radio show Neon Nights, Safeco Field

Mo Gaffney & Shawna Wride of syndicated radio show "Women Aloud", Hollywood

Hosts of syndicated radio show, The Radio Ritas, Hell's Kitchen, NYC

Pepple Cantu Schmidt Senior Partners

UW Trademarks & Licensing Product Shoot

Mothers Against Violence in America (MAVIA) Campaign

Volleyball in front of Denny Hall, UW Alumni

Skateboarder in Red Square, UW Alumni

Squid Jigging on Waterfront, Seattle

Jotunheimen, Norway

Matt Shoudy, Industrial Designer/Artist

Craig Spaeth, Industrial Designer

Street Fashion, Bilbao

Idiots on Parade, San Jose (1980)

Sheep Herder, Ireland

Guard, Forbidden City, Beijing

Fruit Vendor Preparing for Market Day, Paris

Pilgrims Squabble, Santiago de Compostela

Palio di Siena, Italy

South African Dancers, UW School of Education

Fourth of July

Something smartalecky about pictures, people and stories

Our best, most authentic work tells business stories of people in their natural environments, showing them doing stuff — the way people do. Shooting for business is about finding context, defining a relationship with the viewer and sidestepping the minefield of cliches. Our job is to make what the viewer sees feels original.

Usually, there's truth to clichés.

Actually, there's nothing smartalecky about depicting people and places in a genuinely interesting way. If it resonates it's probably not a cliché.

From the Manifesto

What We Shoot

Editorial portraiture and photographic business stories are what we do best. Author Matt Ruff rides the elevator at the Seattle Public Library.

People

Editorial business stories, portraiture in context, and real people doing real things. Many of our clients come from law, technology, education and non-profits, but our most interesting work all boils down to creating relationships and a narrative.

Capturing a sense of destination is our goal with travel and hospitality photography. In this example a guard passes the main gate in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

Places

Light, color, people, food, history — each lead to a destination, and our goal of making the world a little smaller. Landscapes and beauty shots are wonderful but showing dimensions and differences in other cultures is the real art to making pictures.

Making strong connections between products, ideas and business messages defines our studio and tabletop photography. Our "Minions" series explores business relationships using the little people from model train sets.

Concepts

Metaphors, objects and reportage. Four decades of shooting hasn't dampened enthusiasm of making tabletop products evocative or creating visual links between people and ideas.

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