Beau Fraser, Managing Director of The Gate Worldwide, first approached me about creating executive portraits of his agency team six years ago. Technologically speaking, it was so long ago, that the first set was done using my Hasselblad and film! Practically every year since we’ve teamed up to get portraits of new members of the agency though by now it’s all pro-digital of course and the equipment has gotten so much lighter and more portable we simply set up a studio in the agency conference room. And this year, it was finally time to get a new one of Beau himself.

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The One Club held their annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony at New York’s Gotham Hall and quite the induction it was. The late Steve Jobs was the first client ever to honored for his contributions to advertising and Lee Clow accepted on his behalf with some great stories as well as probably that rare chance to experience the great “The Crazy Ones” ad with Job himself doing the voice over. Joe Pytkta, he (in)famous director noted for his work on Perrier, Nike (think Michael Jordan), with the Beatles and too many other incredible commercials to mention, was inducted; as well as legendary copywriter Paula Green (Avis: We Try Harder). Additionally, Rob Lawton was there as the first ever teacher to be inducted. In keep with tradition, many previous inductees, the greats of advertising were there.

It made for a VERY memorable -- if somewhat pressured -- formal portrait session.

Featured in the image above are (left to right seated) Ed McCabe, Paula Green, Ralph Ammirati and Amil Gargano; (left to right standing) Joe Pytka, George Lois, David Kennedy and Mike Hughes.

Tags: The One Club, People In Advertising, The One Club Hall of Fame, Portraits of People in Advertising, Ed McCabe, Paula Green, Ralph Ammirati, Amil Gargano, Joe Pytka, George Lois, David Kennedy, Mike Hughes