BOSCPUG presents “An Evening with Vincent LaForet”
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Spend an evening in screenings and conversation with DGA director and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent LaForet on Thursday, February 23rd – This is a rareopportunity to connect with Vincent in person – Vincent will screen and discuss various works that he has created in the intimate and state of the art Bright Family Screening Room at Emerson College. Vincent will talk about his transition from shooting with DSLR cameras to his present work with large sensor cameras like the RED Epic, Phantom and his latest work shooting with the new Canon Cinema EOS C300 Digital Cinema camera. In an engaging message, Vincent will share how, while technology, from Canon cameras to Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, has changed the way in which Vincent today creates as a filmmaker, the importance of Story is top priority fueling his passion for Cinema and Visual Storytelling.
Includes validated $10 flat rate parking and an After-Screening Social Hour at SALVATORE’S – And all registered attendees are eligible to win a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium (value $1,699) – Be a Part of It. Register Now.
ABOUT VINCENT LAFORET
Vincent Laforet, a three-time winner at the prestigious 2010 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, is aDGA director and Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer who is known for his forward-thinking approach to image-making and storytelling. In addition to having been commissioned by just about every important international publication—includingVanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, and Life—Vincent is considered a pioneer both for his innovative tilt-shift and aerial photography and in the field of HD-capable DSLR cameras. In fact, his short filmReverie, the first 1080p video shot with a still camera, was seen by more than 2 million times on the first week of its release in 2009. Vincent is a member of the Director’s Guild of America and a DP with Local 600.
Vincent, who was born in 1975, began his photography career at the age of 15. He started as a photojournalist, honing his abilities by landing internships with newspapers such as The Los Angeles Times and with Reuters. By the time he was 25, he had established himself as the youngest staff photographer for The New York Times, and by the time he left, he had a Pulitzer for feature photography under his belt. “His images stir with life,” PDN wrote of him in a 2003 “One to Watch” profile. “Athletes are colorful heroes ripped from comic book pages while his wartime photographs successfully wander between the unimaginably large scale and the touchingly human.”
In 2005, American Photo named him one of the “100 Most Influential People in Photography,” and his work has been recognized in the Communication Arts and PDN annuals and by the World Press Photo Awards, the Pictures of the Year Competition, the Overseas Press Club, the National Headliners Awards, and the Pro-Football Hall of Fame. And the accolades continue to come his way. In June 2010, he was honored with a Gold, Silver, and a Bronze in the Titanium category at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival for his work as the director on the groundbreaking Canon “Beyond the Still” competition, which he spearheaded with Grey Advertising.
“It’s not just the laundry list of awards that sets Laforet apart, though,” noted The FStopmagazine in a 2010 interview with Vincent, whose fine-art prints have been exhibited worldwide and are part of numerous private collections. “It’s his steady and unique growth as a photographer. From shooting weddings [as a teen] to the NBA finals in college to his job at the Times and now his much publicized move to commercial photography and motion work, it’s been a long and fruitful evolution.”
Since 2006, Vincent himself has charted this evolution on his blog, http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/, which has become a must read in the photographic and filmmaking communities, attracting more than 3,000,000 visitors each year. His combination of candor and expertise have made him highly sought after as a consultant (for companies such as Apple, Canon, Manfrotto, Lexar, X-Rite, and Zeiss), a keynote speaker, and an instructor. Vincent, who has been profiled on CNN and Good Morning America and in dozens of publications, has served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and at the International Center of Photography.
He is represented as a commercial director by the Los Angeles & New York Based production company “Accomplice,” and as a photographer by the New York–based agency Stockland Martel. Vincent currently resides in Manhattan Beach, California, with his wife, Amber, son, Noah, and daughter, Eliana.
