Getting to know your fellow members
Chuck Vosburgh By Chuck Vosburgh
This month we’re starting a new feature to help us all get better acquainted. We have a lot of talented photographers in our group, but we may not know the story behind the person. So, I’m going to get it started. I’ll be calling on you soon to write about you! I’ll tell you all about me and my career, but the short story is I’m a Bible believer, husband to my wonderful wife Pat and vintage Volkswagen fanatic. I’m fortunate beyond what I ever imaged and sincerely grateful for every person I have the good fortune to meet.
It all started at a garage sale I found an old Polaroid at a garage sale when I was in my early teens and bought it using money earned mowing yards. A few other used cameras followed and my first new camera was a Pentax ME. In school I learned how to develop black and white film, make prints and built a darkroom in the shed in my parent’s back yard.
An internship set my course In 1983, my last year of high school, I was fortunate enough to have a two-semester internship at a local advertising agency. I got exposed to some of the most talented designers, illustrators and
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photographers in the Tampa Bay area and all were willing to teach and mentor. The ad agency hired me part-time with the agreement that I would attend commercial art school, which I eagerly did. A few years later, I worked my way up to Art Director and was working mostly on advertising and marketing materials for builders and developers. In addition to doing photo: Steven Le the design and illustration work, I would sometimes get to do the photography as well. When the advertising agency I was working for closed in 1986 I rented an office and started my own business as a solo freelancer. Over time, my business grew into a small design studio and we started working on larger national-level accounts. I continued to do a lot of the photography for our clients and eventually photography eclipsed design work.
