I spent the last few days of August in the tech capital of the country photographing a gathering of over 4,000 suits. I didn’t get or ask for a room in the host hotel as that would have simply meant that an eight-hour shift will never be an eight-hour shift. I stayed 400 meters away, in a tiny Udupi hotel and restaurant and walked daily to and from the venue for three days. The commissioning agent insisted that I hire an editor for the gig. Why? The client needed the photos asap for social media, mainly LinkedIn. That was the first time in 15 years of work that someone wanted pictures faster than usual to share on LinkedIn. I had an array of options to pick, but requested my mentor AS. to come along: as a former news photographer and a photo department head, he knows how to transmit images…

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