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Sean Arbabi is a commercial photographer specializing in adventure, lifestyle, nature, & travel - for advertising, corporate, & editorial clients. He has had freelance & contracted assignments with over 250 publications and 150 companies worldwide.
Credits include American Express, Backpacker, California Division of Tourism, The Daily Telegraph, Endless Vacation, Fuji Film USA, GEO Germany, Inside Sport-Australia, JC Penny, Microsoft, National Geographic Adventure & Traveler, The New York Times, Newsweek, Nikon Inc., The North Face, Outside, Random House, REI, Runner's World, Sports Illustrated, Timex, Via magazine, & Woodbridge wines. Sean has shot over 200 assignments for Sunset, & authored numerous feature articles displaying his photography.
A native Californian, his family moved to Iran in 1972, & after living in Tehran for four years, returned to the San Francisco Bay Area in '76 where Sean makes his home today.
In '91, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Commercial photography from Brooks Institute of Photography, & began his business Arbabi Imagery thereafter combining outdoor, on-location, and studio photography.
Today, he shoots mostly in digital, 120mm medium format & 35mm, but also film on occasion, & brings a background of on-location, studio, outdoor, and lighting skills & experience to every job. His assignment travels incorporate much of the US, with international locations including Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, & South America. His stock image files , currently 400,000 strong, have been published in advertisements, books, brochures, magazines, newspapers, trade shows, & websites around the world.
Over the years, he has backpacked over mountain ranges, helicoptered above jungles, ridden horseback across plains and mountains, rafted down rivers, mountain biked along forest trails, sailed on oceans, & hung over cliffs, all to capture images he and his clients were in search of. Photography is his passion.
Sean is a down-to-earth person who is easy-going and fun to work with. He takes pride in being a professional photographer & businessperson, & feels lucky to succeed in a career that provides so much happiness.
In recent years, Arbabi's travels jobs took him around California, to the Caribbean, Florida, Montana, Mexico, New Mexico, the US Virgin Islands, & Wyoming. Recently , he has landed two travel guidebook covers, a pair of magazine covers, a catalog cover, wrote & shot four feature articles, all the while working on a tv pilot about photography entitled Photoguru . He also wrote the successful how-to book The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure published by Random House in January 2009.
Sean resides in Danville, California with his wife and two cutie-patutie daughters.
Listen to two recent BetterPhoto Radio Interviews:
BP Radio Interview Feb '07
BP Radio Interview Oct '07
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