Portrait Photographer SF - Jim Patell, Stanford d.School
Shot for Terra Mater Magazine at Stanford D-School
Shot for Terra Mater Mag on location at Stanford D-School, Jim Patell is teaching the D-School's course on Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability. We walked through four locations to shoot these portraits, one being in front of a cargo container that was sitting there.
Jim Patell is a professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a co-founder of the d.school - the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. The course on Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability focuses on products designed for people living on under four dollars a day. The props in the portraits - a lit Edison bulb, a solar lantern, a sleeping bag - are prototypes from that work. The objects tell you what the man thinks about.
As a portrait photographer in San Francisco with extensive experience photographing academics, researchers, and innovators for publications, Marc Olivier Le Blanc approaches sessions like this as an editorial problem: how do you make a portrait that communicates a body of work, not just a face?
Four Locations, One Cargo Container
The four images from this session each do different work. The clean headshot on white provides the utility portrait. The close portrait reads character. The Edison bulb image is the conceptual portrait. The cargo container location gave the shoot an unexpected industrial edge - the kind of detail that happens when you say yes to wherever the campus takes you.
Editorial Portrait Photographer for Publications
Marc Olivier Le Blanc is a portrait photographer and professional photographer based in San Francisco, available for editorial commissions, academic and institutional portrait work, and commercial photography throughout the Bay Area.
