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Business Daily Meets: Jason Bell

Business Daily

BBC

Business

4.4816 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Samira Hussain visits the New York studio of one of the most in demand photographers in the world, Jason Bell.

Jason has photographed some of the world’s most famous people - including Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio and the British Royal Family. His work has been featured in Vanity Fair and Vogue and he’s shot campaigns for The Crown, Billy Elliot and The Revenant.

Jason takes us behind the lens on some very famous photo shoots, explaining how his career progressed. Plus he gives his top tips for taking a truly memorable photograph.

Presenter: Samira Hussain Producer: Carmel O’Grady

(Photo: Photographer Jason Bell Credit: Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi there. I'm Namulanta Combo and I'm the host of another BBC World Service podcast called Dear Daughter.

0:09.1

Maybe you've listened to our first season or maybe you heard about us a few months ago when we won best podcast of the year at the British Podcast Awards.

0:18.2

I am so excited to tell you we are coming back for our second season, but I need

0:23.1

your help. I'll be back to tell you more after this episode. Quick question. How many

0:31.0

photographs have you taken today? Selfies, kid snaps, a quick pick for a group WhatsApp. Or did you try hundreds of times to get that

0:39.8

well thought out but seemingly off-the-cuff image for your socials?

0:46.9

Photographs sell, they tell, and they promote. Almost every one of us carry around a camera

0:52.5

all the time these days, and it's estimated

0:55.0

more than 3 billion images are posted online every single day.

1:00.3

There is no question photographs are valuable currency.

1:04.4

And that brings me on to today's Business Daily Meats.

1:10.8

I'm Samira Hussein, and in this episode, we'll be talking to one of the Business Daily meets.

1:16.4

I'm Samira Hussain, and in this episode, we'll be talking to one of the most in-demand photographers in the world, Jason Bell.

1:19.5

I think you can go very quickly down a sort of rabbit hole of like, oh my God, these pictures

1:22.9

are going to be in every, you know, newspaper tomorrow, and they, you know, they really,

1:27.4

you know, they really were.

1:28.4

I mean, I remember sort of the next day it was like turning on the TV and there were the

1:31.9

pictures and turning on, you know, all the newspapers.

1:34.7

Jason has photographed some of the world's most famous people, including Angelina Jolie,

1:40.0

Leonardo DiCaprio and Tilda Swinton, and more about her a little later. Now, his work has been

1:45.7

featured in Vanity Fair and Vogue, and he's shot campaigns for the Crown, Billy Elliott,

1:51.6

and The Revenant. The idea on a really good shoot is you have a good idea, you've set it up well,

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