FIRST CLASS TO HAITI

FIRST CLASS TO HAITI

part 1)

Shoot the interior of a beautiful rock star Boeing 707 Jet

The Master Bedroom on a 707 Boeing Jet

originally commissioned by the Emirate of Oman

I asked, if there were 30 guests who got the master bedroom.

The guy that's paying. I mean, obviously.

The Galley Capable of 5 star Gourmet Cooking

the Main Salon Area- DP and Salmon with fine Lebanese Capers?

part 2

relief mission to Port au Prince

HAiTI

Portraits of Returning Relief Workers

These portraits were shot in the 707's office cabin enroute to Miami in flight from Port au Prince airport where we dropped supplies off and picked up relief workers, some of whom have been in Haiti since Day 1.

The look on their faces, what they had seen, where they had been...

I spent some time shooting the interior of a private 707 that was outfitted originally for the Finance Minister of Oman, gold plated faucets, a big liquor cabinet, some 30 or so Recaro Rolls Royce Valencia Leather Seats, Bird's Eye Maple and all the accoutrements for a pleasant stay wherever in the world your ministry sent you. Now the plane is in service of chartering to rock stars, emissaries and dignitaries from countries all over the world. Great crew, fun work and killer travel!

Anyways, after we got done shooting the interior, the plane was called away to fly some relief flights to Haiti, bringing in medical supplies and doctors and picking up workers who had been there 4 or 6 weeks. I was invited to come along and see the airport happenings in Port au Prince and maybe help out with some PR photography.

I snapped some editorial stuff documenting the work with the unloading and distribution of goods we brought down, but mainly (!!), I brought along a couple of Profoto B600's and my H2 for the set up of a little in-flight portrait studio to capture the gaunt, wasted, drained look on the faces of some 25 or so relief workers that joined the plane back to Miami from Port au Prince.

Check them out, along with a couple of interior shots.

More on Haiti in the next post.

Wick

Please see my site, www.wickbeavers.com, for a look at some of my work. There's more on Haiti as well, plus a new section on the children (and their parents) forced out of their homes by the escalating mortgage crisis.

Please donate in some way to help the victims of the Haiti Earthquake.

Good week

Wick