Lucas Schifres
Chief Photographer, Pictobank http://www.pictobank.com
News photographer with a 10-year experience, I just moved to Shanghai, China, to launch a photo agency dedicated to high-quality corporate and editorial photos. As a team of professional photographers, we will provide top-quality photo coverage of product launches, conferences, forums, factories visits, etc. I am in China since the beginning of 2006, when i was offered the job of Chief Photographer for Bloomberg News - meaning I organised the photo coverage of all business news for Bloomberg in China, wether by shooting myself or assigning one of the freelance photographers that I was managing. After a year obtaining great experience and developing my knowledge of Chinese, I quit this highly-demanding very exciting job to start the new adventure of launching my own business. I am still open for a position of Chief photographer in a Northern Asia country for a big news agency if the challenges are motivating.
35 contacts2005 - 2006Bloomberg News is the global number 1 Finance and Business News Agency in the world.
During 6 years I have been Bloomberg's first photographer in France, contributing daily by covering major Economic events on a freelance basis. On November 2005 I was promoted Chief Photographer for China and I moved to Beijing. I set up the photo bureau, managed the existing team of 10 freelance photographers, and developed it to a team of 20 photographers. I doubled Bloomberg's production of Chinese photos during the year I stayed.
I left in November 2006 to move to Shanghai and set up my own photo agency.
1999 - 1999Photographe stagiaire, j'ai couvert l'actualité au même titre que les photographes en titre et j'ai appris comment fonctionnait le service photo d'un hebdomadaire.
1998 - 1998Stagiaire de l'AFP, j'ai effectué le même travail que les photographes en titre, couvrant l'actualité et effectuant jusqu'à 13 reportages par jour, notamment pendant la coupe du Monde 1998.
1997 - 1997Photographe stagiaire, j'ai couvert l'actualité au même titre que les photographes en titre et j'ai appris comment fonctionnait le service photo d'un quotidien.