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Blog » reinvention
Jeff Singer's Reinvention Shoot
Posted by Workbook on 08/18/2010 — Filed under: Photography
These images were taken for San Francisco Magazine of people who had completely reinvented their lives and careers in one way or another. This project was particularly fitting for Jeff since his life as a photographer is a complete reinvention:
"I was a computer science major at Chico State. After college I got a job as a network engineer and worked in Silicon Valley for about eight years. At the time I left, I was a senior engineer at Cisco Systems. I was getting tired of my job so I decided to move to Canada. While I was there, I needed something to do, so I enrolled at Western Academy of Photography in Victoria, British Columbia. I hadn't really ever used a camera before, besides disposable point and shoot cameras, but I thought it would be interesting. At the end of the one year program I decided that I liked photography, so when I moved back to San Francisco in 2005, I thought I'd give it a try. I've been doing it ever since."
http://www.jeffsingerphotography.com/ and http://www.workbook.com/portfolios/singer
Carlos Hernandez, 53, went from a senior sales engineer at a big industrial manufacturing company to a social media coach.
"There's a place in the world for people who can speak with nouns and verbs, which many young people can't. Older people bring the ability to stop and think before they open their mouths, both online and off."
Philip Clark, 27, and Shakirah Simley, 25.
Both were originally public-policy nerds. Now, Clark has a socially conscious graphic web-design company and Simley has started Slow Jams, an artisinal jam company that sources ingredients from urban farms.
"Clark realized recently that while he had loved doing art all his life, it was something he could actually do for a living."
Awie Smit, 41, spent 13 years in a dream job in corporate sports sponsorship for Visa International (think: Olympic Games). Since being laid off in 2008, Smit has become a landscape designer for Habitat Gardens, which consulted on the Academy of Sciences' living roof.
"He woke up one morning and thought about his own San Mateo backyard, where he'd been working every weekend for years, 'It was such a relief to plant that pole in the ground and rally around it.'"
James Staten. 42, has gone from a market researcher for a 900-employee company in Foster City to a record setting marathoner who will soon become the first person to complete all 14 Rock 'n' Roll Marathons (a popular cycle of races) in one year.
"I lost my mother to cancer, and this seemed like a good way to honor her, since they raise money for the disease. So I got addicted."
Does your life need reinvention?
"I was a computer science major at Chico State. After college I got a job as a network engineer and worked in Silicon Valley for about eight years. At the time I left, I was a senior engineer at Cisco Systems. I was getting tired of my job so I decided to move to Canada. While I was there, I needed something to do, so I enrolled at Western Academy of Photography in Victoria, British Columbia. I hadn't really ever used a camera before, besides disposable point and shoot cameras, but I thought it would be interesting. At the end of the one year program I decided that I liked photography, so when I moved back to San Francisco in 2005, I thought I'd give it a try. I've been doing it ever since."
http://www.jeffsingerphotography.com/ and http://www.workbook.com/portfolios/singer
Carlos Hernandez, 53, went from a senior sales engineer at a big industrial manufacturing company to a social media coach.
"There's a place in the world for people who can speak with nouns and verbs, which many young people can't. Older people bring the ability to stop and think before they open their mouths, both online and off."
Philip Clark, 27, and Shakirah Simley, 25.
Both were originally public-policy nerds. Now, Clark has a socially conscious graphic web-design company and Simley has started Slow Jams, an artisinal jam company that sources ingredients from urban farms.
"Clark realized recently that while he had loved doing art all his life, it was something he could actually do for a living."
Awie Smit, 41, spent 13 years in a dream job in corporate sports sponsorship for Visa International (think: Olympic Games). Since being laid off in 2008, Smit has become a landscape designer for Habitat Gardens, which consulted on the Academy of Sciences' living roof.
"He woke up one morning and thought about his own San Mateo backyard, where he'd been working every weekend for years, 'It was such a relief to plant that pole in the ground and rally around it.'"
James Staten. 42, has gone from a market researcher for a 900-employee company in Foster City to a record setting marathoner who will soon become the first person to complete all 14 Rock 'n' Roll Marathons (a popular cycle of races) in one year.
"I lost my mother to cancer, and this seemed like a good way to honor her, since they raise money for the disease. So I got addicted."
Does your life need reinvention?
