Here's a BTS job. I'm sure they ended up using the footage as BROLL cut into interviews - or not all - but I like giving BROLL center stage and if you can tell the story with only BROLL, rather than using interviews or something else, I think that's cool.
JANUARY 6 2021
It quickly became apparent that I would be wherever the news was. This was solidified on January 6, 2021. I happen to be in DC for some work at our warehouse and HQ in DC when the insurrection happened. I was staying at a hotel next to the capitol. As we all know, the national guard came in and shut down the city, no traffic, no movement. Except us. We began cooking meals out of our founder's restaurant Jaleo in DC and distributing the meals to the national guard on duty all night. A couple of days after J6, we provided meals at the capitol itself for the national guard and police, and Nancy Pelosi was there to help serve. This is where I find myself smack in the middle of it. I was to drive the van (white, unmarked) into the capitol with a police escort straight up to Nancy herself, a mere 72 hours after her life was threatened. Extraordinary. A few days later, Jose Andres, our founder did some news segment at night while we were serving, and I took got a photo of him which is still one of the most used photos of him for the organization.
I picked up medium format because I wanted to start to get familiar with IMAX. Sounds kind of silly when I say it like that, but it's the truth. Medium format film photography is the closest I can get to using IMAX as a capture medium without hundreds of millions of dollars. I find it to be an incredible art form. The images that you can create with the medium is incredible. When you shoot wide open, and you NAIL the exposure and focus the image pops in a way that nothing else does. The flip side is also true, you can create some certifiable shit if you don't take control of all the elements. First I bought the Mamyia 645 and then I bought the Mamyia RB67. They're both amazing cameras. Not very portable, but it hasn't stopped me from carrying them around like a point and shoot.
