In the year after giving birth, I shot assignments in Mississippi, Mauritania, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and India, avoiding any work on the front line, because for the first time, I felt I needed to stay alive.
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Shooting on assignment has reliable earnings (and there is no shortage of publications with "street style" components), but the demands that come with the commission can be overwhelming.
When shooting on assignment he tended to retain the best images for himself: the portrait of Robert Graves that appeared in a 1941 issue of Picture Post shows a young man focused on his work; the one from the same session that Brandt held back shows the poet looking more mature, a quill pen clasped between his teeth and a slightly mad, oracular gleam in his eye.
Zane says he got a similar sensation when he was shooting an assignment downtown at The Ritz-Carlton Residences at LA Live.
But Lawrence Block's amiable antihero, who's in Des Moines on a simple point-and-shoot assignment, needs all the extra attention he gets in HIT AND RUN (Morrow, $24.95) after someone sets him up to take the fall for a high-profile political assassination.
After shooting their assignments for The Naples Daily News, Lexey Swall, Greg Kahn and Tristan Spinski would unwind together at night, playing dice and talking about photography.
From there I began shooting commercial assignments.
Though she sometimes shoots on assignment, her marriage is her priority.
Another photographer, beefy and wearing a black bandanna, was on his way to shoot an assignment when he noticed Mendes.
Most of the work I shot on assignment for The New York Times when I was doing a series with Elisabeth Bumiller.
