Stories Behind the Shots - 90 mins

Join internationally published, award-winning photographer and photo educator Rick Friedman for an unforgettable presentation featuring powerful images and the incredible stories behind them from more than 50 years as a magazine and newspaper photojournalist.

From photographing every U.S. president from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump, to capturing world leaders, politicians, celebrities, tech innovators, authors, professors, models — and even spies and infamous figures — Rick’s career has placed him at the center of history.

His work has appeared in leading publications including Time, National Geographic, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Nature, Discover, The Times of London, Der Spiegel, Paris Match, Kyodo News, and hundreds more. His photographs have also been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, Fox, CNN, Saturday Night Live, and Real Time with Bill Maher.

Rick has created more than 85 book and magazine covers and contributed to over 20 films and television productions. For more than two decades, he has traveled the world teaching his acclaimed “Location Lighting Workshops,” inspiring photographers at every level.

Rick is a Tamron Pro, Profoto Ambassador, Platypod Ambassador, and member of the Think Tank Pro Team.

Special thanks to Tamron Americas for sponsoring this presentation.

Bio: Rick Friedman has been a photojournalist for over four decades. Based in Boston, he travels the world for numerous publications, corporations, advertising assignments and film and television productions.

His published work has appeared in Time, National Geographic, Newsweek, The New York Times, Nature, USA Today, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Stern, Discover and many other publications. His photographs have appeared on CNN, ABC, NBC,CBS, Fox, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Saturday Night Live and in numerous documentaries. He has produced over 75 book and magazine covers and worked on 20 movies.
Rick has been teaching his "Location Lighting Workshops™" for the past 16 years across the US, UK, Canada and in the UAE. Rick has taught thousands of people his style of practical lighting. For locations and dates of upcoming events, please look on the "Workshops" page for dates and locations. Workshop sponsors have included Xposure, The Societies of Photographers, PPA, ASMP, Tamron, Savage Universal, Dynalite, PocketWizard, ExpoImaging, and Rosco. Rick presented his “Location Lighting Workshops™” on “Creative Live” appeared on B&H TV. and numerous photo podcasts.

Rick is a Profoto Ambassador and Tamron Pro. Rick is past president of the Boston Press Photographers Association. Rick is a contributor to PhotoFocus.com
Rick has photographed every U.S. presidential candidate from President Jimmy Carter to Joe Biden. His political photographs have appeared on the cover of Newsweek, The Village Voice, The Guardian Magazine, on 5 book covers and have been featured in Time, PDN and Professional Imagemaker. Rick has won awards from the American Society of Media Photographers, the National Press Photographers Association, and the Boston Press Photographers Association. He has had one man shows at Boston City Hall and the Boston Public Library in addition to having his work displayed in numerous other shows. Rick had 15 images in the juried show "Presidential Hopefuls in the 21st Century" sponsored by the Boston Press Photographers Association.

Rick has photographed several thousand authors, professors, scientists for publications and for major universities. His archives contain one of the largest private collections of portraits of noted academics.

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