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Karol Tomaszewski recalls ‘a spot pool. I couldn’t even call the pool it. I could see he
of bother with the light clerical company MD to explain that we had wasn’t really
stuff’, which might easily have left made a simple address error buying into our
his career more than a touch
because he had gone on holiday – proposition - but
compromised – but in the event
and there was no way security were he let it go ahead.
actually enhanced it.
going to allow us access to the Things looked so bad I thought I
‘posh’ pool. might end up paying for the shoot
He tells Litebook: “A photographer
out of my own pocket – and with all
isn’t just taking pictures; he or she is
We had one hour before the client these challenges running around my
running a business – with all the
was due to arrive. I called him and head I was also pretty nervous about
associated administrative and
calmly told pointed out that he had the photography itself.
clerical issues that go with it.”
been given the wrong address – and
that he should meet us at the new But when I sat down post-shoot to
“I remember getting a call from my
address (at the ‘dump’ pool). do some editing, I decided some of
producer. He was checking that I still
the shots looked really good – and I
intended to shoot a ‘collection’
At that point I just thought that this sent them off to the client without
session with a really important client,
was going to be the end of my delay. The next day, to my utter
at a prearranged swimming pool
photographic career – and all surprise, I was invited to the client’s
complex. Ahead of the shoot he
because of a simple mistake on the office to be told he loved the work
would make sure we had permission
booking. and that the company had chosen
to shoot there.
me for the next shoot.
Anyway we made a plan to deal with
The brief required shots of a
the situation as best we could – It just goes to show. Sometimes you
‘gangster’ character chilling out by
which included telling the client that just have to accept that: ‘where you
the pool.
this was actually the favoured venue are, is where you are now’. Deal
for the shoot. The client arrived and with it,
The problem was that when we got
was less than amused. improvise
to the venue the guards refused us
and make
entry.
He looked around; cans, bricks, the most of
trash and graffiti everywhere. Then what you
It turned out that there were TWO
he asked me what the hell was going have to
pools owned by the same
on? I summoned up my best calm w o r k
organisation; one was upmarket and
face, took out the brief and grabbed with.”
elegant – which is the one I assumed
my stylist.
our producer had booked for us –
and the second was a complete
Between us we convinced
dump and disaster.
him that his new collection
was just so ‘cool and street’
Of course we had actually got
that this was by far the best
permission to film at the second
environment in which to shoot
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