LaskowitzPictures

Biography

Although I've studied and worked at a number of things, there isn't a time that I remember not taking pictures. Somewhere in my family pictures, is a picture of me at about five years old, holding some kind of Kodak box camera. 

After a couple of fits and starts, I studied photojournalism at San Jose State University and Ohio University. At the time, both schools were are the top of their games. Later I studied a little more after I moved to New Orleans. I did that just to learn a bit more. I hold degrees from Loyola New Orleans and the University of New Orleans. 

My first career jobs where at newspapers and wire services, with stops in the New River Valley of Virginia, The Winston-Salem Journal & Sentinel, UPI, The Register of Orange County, The San Diego Union and the Spokane Spokesman-Review. 

I made a career change. I joined the staff of Westlight, a photo agency based in Los Angeles, and later, The Image Bank -- owned by Eastman Kodak. 

My staff positions starting with the Orange County Register were generally management. I was a picture editor, a director of photography, a publishing director and I managed our Asian franchises as part of my work for TIB. 

I made another career change. After many years of looking at other photographers work, and often thinking "where is this picture, where is that picture," I made a giant leap and founded LaskowitzPictures. 

I've worked for a lot of great clients. A short, selected list follows:

Microsoft     Magnavox     Budweiser      Red Stripe Beer

Crown Royal     Chivas Regal     Warner Brothers    Capital  Records

Blue Note Records     National Geographic Traveller     

National Geographic Magazine     Time - Life     Newsweek

Lonely Planet Guide Books     Lonely Planet Trade Books

Getty Images     Eater     Web MD