Last week I had a very quick shoot. Oliver Samwer, CEO of the European Founders Fund lives in the fast lane. Together with his brothers Alexander and Marc, the Samwers established the European Founders Fund and are among Europe's most consistently successful entrepreneurs investing in internet start-up companies.
We communicated via SMS, he changed the location twice, and I finally met him at a West London hotel lobby as he was finishing a meeting with a business associate. He had arrived from the US that day and was already on his way back to the airport to fly to Turkey - oh, and there was another meeting somewhere along the way. It was a good call to arrive 15 minutes early, as he was already jumping into a taxi by the time we were supposed to meet.
The shoot lasted a whole five minutes - a few pictures inside the lobby, then a brisk walk out in front of the hotel, conveniently we stayed close to the taxi rank. I managed literally a 'few more' frames before he had enough, a quick handshake, I turned around and he was gone.
Today one of the portraits appeared across a whole page in the German Spiegel Magazine - some of the others you can also view in the slideshow below.
No comments:
Post a Comment