A DEAD Photographic Mission in North Sulawesi

Staff · Issue 33, Nov/Dec 2006 · pp. 39–43

Products mentioned: MV Sabina

I am a sucker for tight, most often impossible deadlines. It is not that I like to procrastinate to the last hour only to scramble to get the job done but it just seems to happen that way each time. Even with projects that I have diligently premeditated with a 12 month lead time, I will somehow end up rushing to complete in the last possible minutes. It may be that I am taking on too much, or there should be 36 hours in a day or just that I love the challenge, a kind of adrenaline fix I relish from my previous career in main stream advertising. I was once called upon to work on an airline campaign in 3 weeks – ie from strategies, conceptualization, and production to launch! But then I had a team of 20 with couple of hundred thousand dollars as production budget; we ended up making a three destination shoot for the TV commercial … well, free travel, why not? In my current profession as an…