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Art is a team sport. Surround yourself with as many wonderful, smart, hard-working people as you can. Let me say that again. Art is a team sport. I am very proud of the team I was able to put together in my book Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange's Three Mormon Towns (www.markhedengren.com). First off, don’t major in the art unless it’s a top notch school that is known for art. If you are going to attend a school in Utah, I would recommend majoring in English or philosophy or some other humanity, and every summer gets an internship in New...

Lots of New Lighting Gear The Quasar light is like a Kino Flo but WAY WAY brighter, more color options, and much more versatile and durable. 6x 4ft Quasar 6 bank Kino head (2000-6000k/equivalent of a 2K output in a Kino) $6036x 4ft individual Quasar crossfade (2000-6000k) bulbs $106x 2ft Quasar crossfade (2000-6000k) bulbs $101x 2ft Quasar 6 bank Kino head (2000-6000k/ equivalent of a 2K output in a Kino) $60 Litemat 4 S2 is a really large LED light panel. Set it up and in two minutes you have wonderful light. Whenever people rent this light once, they keep renting it. 6x Litemat...

One of the ironies of travel is that the more you do it the lazier you get about packing and planning. As a result of a few forgotten passport type situations and other important items so I’ve come up with a system Money two sources  of Visa and $100-$200 cash in $20 bills I do this because no matter if you notify the bank or whatever it seems that somehow they think your card is stolen and will block it. It will take a few hours to work this out and is much easier with cell phones now a day...

I like photography books. I like them a lot. I don’t think this makes me unique in the world of people in photography. In many ways I feel that the photography book is the best from of photography. the purist. When a photograph or a series of photographs is hung on the museum wall it is trying to be what painting is. But it’s not painting. When a photograph runs in a magazine it’s there more or less to illustrate a story or a word blurb. More then that in both of those cases the photographer is playing second fiddle...

Everything is accomplished with ideas, communicating those ideas, and team building. I work in a number of different fields; art, journalism, film, writing, food, and technology to name a few. The thing that surprises me is how similar it is to work in all of those fields. I think it’s because everything reduces down to having ideas, communicating those ideas and team building. The great variable is how good your ideas are and good of a team you can build. To me I’ve always rated my career on quality of people I’ve been able to work with on various projects....