Chase Jarvis is advertising photographer and as being that not 100% someone who you might think as a direct inspiration for my work. What makes Chase work so interesting is not only the high quality of his work, mostly shoot on location, but also his approach to share i knowledge and his work in his blog. Sometimes it feels a bit like as if there are always as many guys with video cameras around him that film him while working, what might not be anyones thing, but i creates a lot of interesting content over that for anyone who is interested in a professional insight in photography. And even when his way to work with photography is quite different to the one of a documentary photographer it is a good inspiration to me, also to look at things differnently from time to time. For the whole behind the scenes stuff, check out his blog www.chasejarvis.com/blog. You can subscribe to his podcast there, follow him on twitter, facebook, and so on. The whole social media blast. You will learn something about photography out of that, i promise.

One of the best things about Chase photography is that it seems like he never left the playing kid behind himself. His portfolio starts with iphone pictures, taking in daily life situations, and the short sentence: The best camera is the one that’s with you. What i can underline only even more. To create emotional pictures you can do this even with your little cellphone camera or what ever device can do that. Especially the photography scene is sometimes so overloaded with technical discussions about what is the best camera and so on. Totally boring…

Even when Chase is doing mostly fancy high class pictures with Hasselblad and a big team, it only shows that you should never restrict yourself in your creativity by thinking in only one way about stuff. So check out his website chasejarvis.com for some inspiration.

The video below is a little example for his stuff from the blog and gives you a little insight in his work.