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Where’s All The Good Photo Internships?
Yesterday, I posted an interview I did with local Minneapolis/St. Paul photo assistant TJ Turner. You can see the full interview here. During the interview, TJ talked about the internship he did in NYC after his schooling at Hallmark. Today I received a handful of inquiries about internships, both information from photographers offering internships, as [...]
APhotoAssistant Talks With Twin Cities Photo Assistant TJ Turner
TJ Turner is a photo assistant and photographer based in St. Paul, MN. I sat down with him recently to talk about some of the stuff going on in his world of photography.
APhotoAssistant: Hi, TJ, thanks for spending some time with us today. Tell me when you first started assisting and, if you went to [...]
Fashion Fight Night 4–Behind The Scenes
Metro Mag’s Fashion Fight Night 4 went down Saturday night. Photography by Sara Rubenstein. Check out some of the punchy behind the scenes images over at Flashlight Photo Rental too!
APhotoAssistant Interviews Flashlight PhotoRental
Flashlight PhotoRental is a lighting rental company for photographers, located in Northeast Minneapolis. The head cheese over there is this dude they call Raoul Duke.
APhotoAssistant: When did Flashlight open the doors for business and why did you start the company?
Flashlight: The idea for Flashlight was born in early 2007. I started buying gear and renting [...]
What Are Your Gripes, Photo Assistants?
a bi-weekly column for photo assistants, and other production crew, to make their complaints known about the industry.
