Brainfood: We'd Love That Job - Reportage Photographer - David Alan Harvey, National Geographic
What do you do?
I get paid to travel. I devise the brief, whether it's Cuba or Nairobi, and put the whole package together. My job is as much journalism as photography - I get educated on an area, working on intuition and meeting people by chance. I hang out with them as they live their lives, and then get the picture. National Geographic uses the photographs but I own them, so I'm free to publish books of my work.
How did you get the job?
I majored in art history and, after graduate school, landed an art grant while working for a newspaper in Kansas. It was the best time I ever had.
