Dailey Life // Tallahassee Magazine
Dailey Life // Tallahassee Magazine
On May 2nd, 2019, I spend a little more than half a day with Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey. We meet at the Tallahassee Police Department Headquarters, for a memorial service. Then, I rode with him to the Tallahassee School of Math and Science where he read a few books and had a Fortnite Dance Competition with a class of kindergarteners. We drove the city, talking about growth, development and preservation of the history in our community. Next stop was the Leadership Tallahassee Class 36 graduation and finally to the Bond neighborhood. And that was all before 1:15pm… We partnered with Rowland Publishing to share the story of Tallahassee’s new mayor in Tallahassee Magazine.
Always Be Connecting // THOM Magazine
The Workmans photographed Domi Station's leadership team and co-working space in Tallahassee for THOM Magazine's feature on the business incubator's entrepreneurial community.
Always Be Connecting // THOM Magazine
THOM Magazine assigned us to photograph a feature on Domi Station for their Fall/Winter 2017 issue. The story, written by Rob Rushin, profiled the business incubator and its leadership team, and the assignment brought us to the Domi Station space in Tallahassee to capture portraits of Executive Director Lucas Lindsey, Director of Community Sabrina Torres, and Director of Programs Dominick Ard, along with images of the co-working environment itself.
Domi Station operates out of a trackside brick building, and spaces like that are interesting to work in as Tallahassee photographers because the architecture gives you a lot to play with. Exposed brick, open floor plans, and the kind of natural light that comes through industrial windows all create a setting that feels energetic without needing much art direction. The challenge is making a workspace feel dynamic in a photograph when the actual work happening there is people at laptops and whiteboards. You have to find the angles and the moments that communicate the energy of the place without staging something that doesn't feel real.
For the portraits of the leadership team, we wanted the images to feel connected to the space rather than pulled out of it. Environmental portraits work best when the subject and the setting are telling the same story, and Domi's whole identity is built around the community they've created inside that building. We worked with our Canon mirrorless system and used Profoto lighting to give us control over the mix of natural and artificial light that a space like that typically presents. Co-working environments can be unpredictable with overhead fluorescents competing against window light, so having portable lighting that we could shape quickly made a big difference.
This was also one of our earlier editorial assignments for a publication outside of the Tallahassee and Florida politics orbit. THOM Magazine is based in Thomasville, Georgia, and the feature was part of a broader look at the entrepreneurial ecosystem developing across the Big Bend region and into South Georgia. As editorial photographers in Florida, we love assignments that go beyond the expected and show a different dimension of what's happening in this part of the state. Domi Station represents a side of Tallahassee that doesn't always get the spotlight, and it was a great subject for that kind of storytelling through photography.
This feature was photographed by The Workmans for THOM Magazine and appeared in the Fall/Winter 2017 issue and was written by Rob Rushin. 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!
Portrait Of A Refugee // Professional Photographer Magazine
Portrait Of A Refugee // Professional Photographer Magazine
Often times, our love for the masses hampers our love for the individual. This was the thought that kept going through my (Alex) mind as I keep meeting people in our community who fled for their lives and now call Tallahassee home. At the same time, refugees seem to be a political pawn for both parties, but these are real people who are now our neighbors and we wanted to showcase that. In the spring of 2017, a project called Refugees of TLH was born. We were honored that Professional Photographers of America wanted to share the story of the project in Professional Photographer Magazine.
Trending Now: Aerial Tallahassee // Tallahassee Woman Magazine
Trending Now: Aerial Tallahassee // Tallahassee Woman Magazine
The feature in Tallahassee Woman Magazine
Beacons that to us Beckon // Tallahassee Magazine
The Workmans captured aerial photographs of the historic St. Marks Lighthouse in the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge for Tallahassee Magazine's July/August 2016 feature.
Beacons that to us Beckon // Tallahassee Magazine
Tallahassee Magazine featured our aerial photography of the St. Marks Lighthouse in their July/August 2016 issue as part of their "The 323" section. The piece highlighted the historic lighthouse in the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge, and we provided images through our Aerial Tallahassee project, which explores Tallahassee and the surrounding region from above.
The St. Marks Lighthouse is one of those landmarks that most people in the area have visited at ground level, standing at the base and looking up. Our assignment was to flip that perspective entirely. Aerial photography gives you the ability to show a familiar subject in a way that changes how people think about it, and a lighthouse is a perfect candidate for that treatment. From the ground, it's a tall white structure against the sky. From above, you see its relationship to the coastline, the refuge, the water, and the landscape surrounding it in a way that's impossible to appreciate otherwise.
Photographing a lighthouse from the air in Wakulla County means dealing with coastal wind conditions, restricted airspace considerations near wildlife refuge areas, and the challenge of timing your flight to get the right light on a white structure surrounded by water. White buildings next to open water can be difficult because the reflectivity creates exposure challenges; the structure wants to blow out while the water and marshland around it go dark. Getting the balance right takes planning around the time of day and the angle of approach.
This was one of our earlier aerial editorial assignments for a Florida publication, and it's a good example of how photography in Tallahassee extends well beyond the city limits. The St. Marks Wildlife Refuge is about 25 minutes south of downtown, and it's one of the most visually rich areas in the region. As Tallahassee photographers, having the ability to offer aerial perspectives alongside traditional editorial photography gives publications like Tallahassee Magazine options that most Florida photographers in the area aren't set up to deliver. It's a different skill set and a different way of seeing a place, and we're grateful the magazine gave us the space to showcase it.
This feature was photographed by The Workmans for Tallahassee Magazine and appeared in the July/August 2016 issue and was written by the Tallahassee Magazine Editorial Team. 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!