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Archive for the “Tearsheets” category

Mayor Jean Quan of Oakland

by Winni Wintermeyer on October 9, 2012

The controversial mayor of Oakland, photographed for The Talk section of San Francisco magazine.

Sebastian Thrun for Huffington

by Winni Wintermeyer on August 21, 2012

Sebastian Thrun has a creative mind that likes to change things to benefit many people. His latest project is the free online university Udacity. He’s been involved in many projects involving robotics and artificial intelligence, one of them Google’s self-driving (…)

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the way they met

by Winni Wintermeyer on July 30, 2012

Oakland writer Melanie Gideon and husband Ben Rewis on how they exchanged love letters via email in the 90s. Photographed for the Guardian Weekend magazine.

A trip to Alcatraz with George DeVincenzi

by Winni Wintermeyer on May 10, 2012

Took the ferry out to Alcatraz with George DeVincenzi who was a prison guard there in the 50s. It was a perfectly rainy day, setting the mood and George had lots of great stories to share about his time on the (…)

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Studio visit: Brian Kane

by Winni Wintermeyer on May 10, 2012

A studio visit with furniture designer Brian Kane. This was an assignment for the Wall Street Journal and my shortest commute ever, Brian’s studio is just down the street from me in the Mission. Lots of interesting backdrops to choose (…)

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Patrick Blanc in Dwell Outdoor magazine

by Winni Wintermeyer on May 3, 2012

Re-visited the green wall that Patrick Blanc installed at the Drew School in San Francisco. Took my bicycle on that shoot and Dwell magazine re-used portraits I took from an earlier shoot for their special outdoor issue. Now that’s what (…)

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Justin Torres for Guardian Weekend magazine

by Winni Wintermeyer on March 29, 2012

I always enjoy getting assignments from European magazines, especially the Guardian Weekend. Interesting subjects, they give room to photography and always pick my favorites from the shoot. For their last issue I photographed writer Justin Torres. Though I didn’t get (…)

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Drew Houston of Dropbox

by Winni Wintermeyer on March 28, 2012

For a recent cover of MIT’s Technology Review magazine.

El Bret Treble CD

by Winni Wintermeyer on January 6, 2012

For the design of his debut CD El Bret Treble pulled images from my tumblr blog and I love how the package came out. Plus he used one of my faves on the cover, taken on a road trip right (…)

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Prith Banerjee at Hewlett-Packard

by Winni Wintermeyer on January 6, 2012

All that wood paneling gave it a slight Mad Men feel. No surprise that the old offices of Hewlett and Packard are preserved as a museum. Prith Banerjee is the head of research at HP, his portrait captured for Technology (…)

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Academic ink

by Winni Wintermeyer on November 24, 2011

One great thing about my job is getting to peek into labs where scientists tinker with stuff that’s way over my head but totally sparks my curiosity. I wasn’t even aware that UC Berkeley has a Space Sciences Laboratory but (…)

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Reed Hastings of Netflix for New York Times Magazine

by Winni Wintermeyer on November 24, 2011

Not very much liked by the american consumer, Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix photographed on plain white for the Talk section of The New York Times Magazine. I’ve to say that Netflix streaming is an amazing deal and good companion (…)

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Robot love

by Winni Wintermeyer on October 14, 2011

Pieter Abbeel teaches the PR2 robot from Willow Garage a few new tricks. It can identify towels in a pile of laundry, pick them up and fold them rather quickly. It’s pretty amazing. Whenever it’ll be able to perform low-cost (…)

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Thomas Keller goes to London

by Winni Wintermeyer on October 12, 2011

Thomas Keller launches a pop-up restaurant in London and I got to take his portrait at the French Laundry in Napa for the Independent magazine. A simple, stripped down one on black that ran with similar images in the story (…)

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Tiffany Shlain for 7×7

by Winni Wintermeyer on August 31, 2011

Tiffany Shlain is a local artist and filmmaker and the founder of the Webby Awards. Her new documentary Connected  premieres September 16 in San Francisco. Photographed for 7×7 at the Headlands Center for the Arts where she took part in the residency (…)

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