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Robert Farber: The Perfect Assignment

The Perfect Assignment as Shared by Robert Farber

For the commercial assignment, I was hired to photograph the 2010 Miss Universe, Ximena Navarrete, for a print campaign endorsing a water company called Santorini, owned by PepsiCo in Mexico. Ximena was brought in because she was a major celebrity in Mexico, and I was hired to photograph her in the most natural way. I was also given the assignment to direct Ximena in a TV commercial. So my actual shooting took place in between the different scenes and takes of the TV commercial.

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The Man Who Shot Rock 'n Roll
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Photography as Healer
Photography and Its Many Labels
The Art of Seeing - A Beginner's Journey
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How to Create and Organize Albums Directly from Your iPhone
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The "Perfect Assignment" as shared by Robert Farber
Emmy Andriesse Photographs of Jewish Amsterdam, War and Liberation
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Why You Should Still Hire a Professional Photographer
The Entropy and Extropy of India
The Mountains That Made the Man, tribute to Ansel Adams
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Preserving the World of Burton Holmes
Ghosts in the Landscape -- Vietnam Revisited
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