Vellum’s work featured on MSNBC.com
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While Vellum‘s day to day operations primarily take its production team to industrial locations, Vellum’s team has extensive experience in a wide range of working environments. Occasionally a client is involved in providing disaster relief services – and Vellum’s extensive experience is called upon to produce high quality images in a high risk environment to document the client’s work.
Once such situation was Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Vellum’s founders Jim Winn and Nathan Weber were in the heart of New Orleans as Katrina rolled in, and documented the arrival of the hurricane and the following response by disaster relief services. One of those images ran a week later on MSNBC.com, and was recently featured again in the site’s slideshow of the most dangerous and costly hurricanes to hit the United States. The image, posted below, was shot by Jim Winn as the full power of the storm moved over the city of New Orleans, and can be seen in MSNBC’s slideshow by clicking here.
Again, experience counts, and Vellum’s team has the professional experience and safety training to get the job done, whether it’s in an industrial environment, or a situation that requires fast thinking and a cool head. While shooting at the peak of the storm Nathan and Jim encountered a man clinging for his life to a piece of drift wood in the flood that had overtaken the city. Vellum‘s founders put the cameras down, and used the safety equipment they had on hand to rescue the man and several others in the storm. Their efforts were captured by Zuma Press photographer Edward Linsmier, who is also the co-owner of the Florida commercial photography collective, FLPhotoFirm.
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