With all the fall out over the issue of VII exploiting young photographers. And the accusations that we give nothing back to the industry.

Here is a prime example of a young photographer that I have NEVER met personally. But he is someone that took a workshop with Gary Knight, then Interned in our Paris office. When finished with this… he was faced with the decision of what to do next. With the knowledge and the experience he gained from being directly involved with VII. He did what all of us at VII had to do with our lives at the beginning of our careers. He got off his ______ and went out there and did it.

He didn’t sit back and complain about our dying industry, he didn’t sit and write nonsense on blogs and the internet how he was exploited by VII. For all you whiners out there.
Adam Ferguson is a prime example of how to make it in our industry. He’s someone I’m very proud of. He’s someone that has a bright future ahead of him. He has already TWO of the best covers of Time Magazine that I have seen in a decade. Not bad for an unpaid Intern.

Christopher Morris/VII

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/pictures-122/

http://www.time.com/time/audioslide/0,32187,1927405,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1890204,00.html

Here are Adam’s two covers and a Time blog.

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20090420,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20091012,00.html

http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2009/10/02/picturing-americans-at-war-in-afghanistan/