As a photojournalist I was usually given assignments that other photographers didn’t want to do. Such as going 4,000 feet down in a Uranium mine or climbing a five story smoke stack to photograph strip  mining. Looking through the view finder of a single lens reflex camera, I was in another frame of mind. I was, and still am for that matter, excited that this phenomenon takes place.

My industrial work appeared in Fortune magazine. I also won an award from The Society for Technical Communications for photographs I took of lumbering equipment being used in Northern Ontario in 1968. Look magazine presented me with an award for photographs I took at the 1962 Daytona 500 Sports and Grand Touring car race.

My enjoyment came from photographing Sports Car and F-1 Race cars. I approached these assignments from both a creative and sensitive point of view.

This meant that the photograph had to be taken in a millisecond from the time I looked in the view finder until I clicked the shutter. I wanted to capture the feeling of the driver, mechanics, pit crew and timers in order to tell a full story.

My work appeared in Automobile magazines in Canada, USA, Japan and Germany.

I also did photography for countless Corporate Annual Reports where photography was critical to management and share holders. As a photojournalist this meant looking over a story, discussing it with the editor and making suggestions as to the best way to do this assignment. My work has been referred to as both sensitive, and creative.

Yes, photography was work but it was my enjoyable passion.

Stan Rosenthall

Toronto, May 2006

Some of Stan's work can be seen at IMAGES 2011 at The Button Factory in Waterloo through July 28, 2011. Stan is a founding member of foto-RE.