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angel investor, atomico, Graduate School of Business, niklas zennstrom, picture desk, san francisco photographer, stanford university, stephen lam, venture capital
A few months ago I was commissioned by venture capital firm Atomico to photograph its founder Niklas Zennström at Stanford University. If his name sounds familiar chances are you’ve use some of his previous invention such as Kazaa and Skype.
Despite Niklas was on a very tight schedule between the shoot and his speech at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Niklas was kind enough to let me photograph him in a few different places. My task was to photograph Niklas with some the iconic Stanford architectural elements. Here comes the long curve arch walkways.
With the environmental portrait in the bag we decided mix it up a bit. One being a simple tight head shot against one those stanford brick walls…
… As well as a backlit shot of Niklas. Let’s call it the ethereal angel investor theme. It’s different than the standard head shots, but it’s a different way to look at the usual commercial portraitures.
