Interview with The Click
Sara Rosen and I sat down to talk about the origins of aCurator for the Click blog over at Glitterati Inc.
“I got a job as a photography processor at a one-hour photo shop on a high street. Then I got into further education and had a great time doing a photo course for two years. I wasn’t particularly good but I knew I wanted to do something in photography professionally. It was 1989 and I ended up at Retna, a photo agency, where I met Michael Putland (well-known music photographer and owner of the company). It was the start of many good things.
“I moved to New York in 1992 with the agency. Michael needed someone to come over and sort out the New York office and I thought it should be me. One of the first thing I did was go to the Time Life archive. I was just 22 years old—still a kid. I didn’t know anything about anything and the archive blew my mind. I was struck by the breadth and depth of the features and how there were few publishers running more than a couple of images of a subject.
“I remember being disappointed that magazines were no longer doing big picture spreads like Life any longer, and that gave me the idea to create a photography-based magazine. When I left Retna in 2006, I started working with ZOOZOOM."
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