10 Years Cancer Free, Jared Rosenstein Comes Full Circle // INFLUENCE Magazine
10 Years Cancer Free, Jared Rosenstein Comes Full Circle // INFLUENCE Magazine
INFLUENCE Magazine assigned us to photograph Jared Rosenstein for a feature in their Spring 2025 issue. The story, written by Jesse Scheckner, was a personal profile, and our assignment took us to two locations in Tallahassee: Capital City Consulting and the Florida Capitol.
A two-location editorial portrait session like this gives the magazine a range of images to work with across the spread. Capital City Consulting is Rosenstein's professional home base, and the Florida Capitol is where much of his work as a lobbyist takes place. Both settings tell a different part of the whole story, and the goal for us as Tallahassee photographers was to make each location feel intentional rather than interchangeable.
At Capital City Consulting, we were working in an office environment, which means adapting to the layout, the available space, and whatever the room gives you in terms of natural light and background options. We used Profoto lighting to give us control over the portrait work while keeping the setting visible and recognizable. For a profile piece, sometimes the environmental context matters; the reader should be able to get a sense of the space without it competing with the portrait itself.
The Florida Capitol is a location we know well. As editorial photographers in Florida, we've photographed countless sessions in and around the Capitol complex, and that familiarity is an advantage. We know which areas work for portraits, how the light moves through the building at different times of day, and how to navigate the logistics of working in a public government building. For this assignment, the Capitol served as a second backdrop that connects Rosenstein to the broader world of Florida politics without the images needing to explain why he's there. The reader fills in that context from the article and the provided photo captions.
What makes a two-location session work is the transition between settings. You need the images from each location to feel like they belong in the same story while also offering the art director enough variety to build a multi-page layout. We worked with our Canon mirrorless system and selected lenses that gave us consistent framing across both spaces, pulling in tight for the more personal portraits and stepping back for the environmental compositions that showed the full setting.
Personal profile features are some of the most rewarding editorial assignments because the subject is the entire story. Our job is to create photographs that let the reader connect with the person on the page, and that starts with making the session comfortable enough for the subject to be themselves in front of the camera.
This feature was photographed by The Workmans for INFLUENCE Magazine and appeared in the Spring 2025 issue and was written by Jesse Scheckner. The Workmans are a husband-and-wife photography team based in Tallahassee, Florida, and we work with publications across the state of Florida, in Washington D.C. and around the United States. You can explore more of our editorial photography in the archive, see more of our work across our website and connect with us on how we can best serve you!
