My first gig had me setting up slide projectors and vocal PAs, shooting and editing VHS tapes for a company that rented out AV equipment and churned out corporate videos.
I picked up my photography skills on the fly while living it up in London. I started at a tiny studio near Fleet Street, doing everything from assisting in the darkroom processing & printing black-and-white film, assisting on shoots and helping with accounts. It was a full-on crash course that soon had me snapping photos of celebs at photo calls, corporate bigwigs in the financial district and syndicating images to Fleet street Papers and European Magazines.
When I made my way back to New Zealand, I switched gears and started cranking out presentations for clients at a big corporate staging company.
Once upon a time, the images used were sourced from books, produced ourselves or were hand drawn, then photographed or scanned, The editing process was slow, computer rendering times were arduous, dubbing, and CD Burning were all time-consuming and testing too and once done everything had to be couriered to the client or hand-delivered. So much has changed for the better!
Eventually, I went rogue and became a freelancer. Now, I’ve got the chops to work with everything from 35mm slides to video, PowerPoint, and all the editing software you can think of.
