max s. gerber(the latest shot)

all the volatility in the markets this week got me thinking of a recent shoot with pete adamson, personal investment manager for oprah winfrey. watching and worrying about the dips, dives and leaps of my very small amount of apple stock, i wondered if the same movements cause exponential angst when you’re managing billions, instead. [...]

dibromochloropropane (DBCP) is a chemical pesticide. manufactured by dow, it was used in the 1970s on crops grown in the US and abroad. DBCP was found to cause sterility in workers at the dow plant where it was manufactured. dole foods, one of the world’s biggest producers of fresh fruits and vegetables, stopped using DBCP [...]

alex is the VP of business development at media temple, a web hosting company that deals with sites that large numbers of people actually visit. he’s also one of those rare subjects who actually went out of his way to make the photo session easier, more fluid, and more pleasant. this is a rare thing. [...]

in many photo shoots there exists a moment when it becomes possible to drastically shift the whole dynamic, tone and message of the picture. sometimes this shift happens in a decidedly weird or silly direction. then again, i’m a big believer in the idea that you can do very absurd things in photographs just so [...]

ruben is the CEO of propaganda global entertainment marketing. that means he’s responsible for you seeing in movies the things you desperately want but can’t afford (like a lamborghini, or robot cell phones). that means that ruben’s LA office is full of cool things that you desperately want but can’t have. like motorcycles, fake newspapers [...]

jeremy is the manager of new business development for best buy. this is a title that probably means a lot more to you if you’re not a photographer and you work for a real company. to me, it could mean nearly anything. three things i know, though: first, the inside of a best buy store [...]

the latest shot recession special: two CEOs in a row, now that these have both finally gone to press. jay flaherty is CEO of HCPI which, as far as i understand it, invests in real estate. you’d think that’d be a recipe for disaster right about now but jay didn’t seem too concerned. they build [...]

i don’t meet many CEOs who share my encyclopedic knowledge of 80s movies. if fact, with just a few rare exceptions this encyclopedic knowledge has mostly been met with derision from my friends. it’s not really my fault that i memorized the entirety of legend, it just seemed to be on TV every fifteen minutes [...]

i’ve been meaning to post these pics for a while now, but i’ve been struggling to figure out how to explain the story concisely. in the end, i think i gave up trying to explain it. there was (is?) an ongoing pension scandal in the city of san diego with city workers, but the story [...]

i get to meet people who do a lot of different things, some of which seem very enviable. i mean, really, who wouldn’t want the title “venture capitalist”? it seems like it’d be great for once to be the guy able to give out the money instead of being the guy trying to get the [...]