Monday, April 16, 2012

Photographer To A "Star"

Wired interviews Joe Biden's official photographer:
Instead of the cliché work nightmares of missing deadlines or showing up naked, when Joe Biden’s official photographer David Lienemann wakes up in a cold sweat, he’s dreaming about missing the Vice President’s motorcade.
“[The job] has been really exciting and really terrifying at the same time,” says Lienemann, 28, who for the past three and a half years has been with Biden almost every day while creating the official photographic record of the 47th Vice President.
After visiting 32 countries aboard Air Force 2, including seven trips to Iraq, Lienemann has learned to sleep anytime, anywhere and deal with the inevitable challenges. Like the time he was roughed up by a Japanese State Department official after a miscommunication about what kind of access he’d be allowed on Japanese soil.
He’s also done things many of us never will: fly over Afghanistan in a military helicopter or see the inside of multiple foreign capitals. While it may seem glamorous, his view is severely limited by the job.
“You see some things you would never see as a tourist, but you usually don’t get to play tourist,” he says. So much so that on a recent trip to Mexico City, it was refreshing just to wrap up early and go across the street for some authentic food at a local restaurant. “That was pretty cool,” he says.
Unfortunately, this isn't one of his works:

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