SPOTLIGHT
Simon Eisenba
Written by Julian R. Vaca
When you think of your passion for filmmaking, what is your earliest memory? A lot of filmmakers will tell you that they fell in love with the medium at a very early age. Whether it was making short movies on their parents’ camera, experimenting with in-camera editing, or just pointing and shooting, most filmmakers knew their calling since adolescence. Every so often someone flips the script.
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Growing up, Simon spent a great deal of time traveling and always had access to disposable cameras, though he never considered himself anything more than a novice shooter. Watching his father build a hospital in Mali, West Africa, Simon’s desire to travel grew, so he took his first trip to Burkina Faso.
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Take Simon Eisenbach, the Owner and Executive Producer of Simon Eisenbach Productions, who confesses that he got into filmmaking slightly backward. (More on that in a moment.) His company focuses on “Creating visual content for brands that want to change the world.” That might sound like a rather audacious claim for a photography and video production company, but once you begin to learn about the man behind the camera and his work, his mission statement doesn’t sound all that bold.
“I quickly fell in love with the food, the culture, and the people,” Simon recalls. Traveling to that country with his father and immersing in the culture was an “adventure,” he says, and the whole experience may very well have been the first seed. Shortly thereafter, Simon enrolled in Intro to Digital Photography in college. His other classes and rigorous soccer schedule proved to be difficult and tricky to balance. So, in a sense, his hand was kind of forced to learn digital photography.
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