Darrell Thompson, Photographer
- Age 67, head of own firm since 1969
- Assisted Atlanta advertising photographers:
Jerome Drown & Dwight Howard- 3 years
- Appointed University Photographer, Emory University- 2.5 years
- Twice employed by The Atlanta Journal & Constitution as Staff Photographer 2.5 years
- Television News Cameraman for Atlanta's Channel 11 - 1 year
- Member: The National Association of PhotoShop Professionals
- Began newspaper photography at age 10, sports and news
- Married to Gayle Thompson, pianist for Eastside Baptist Church
Awards and Competitions
- Best magazine cover, statewide publisher's competition, "School Dropout"
- Best brochure, printering competition (a high-rise hotel-condo conversion)
- Best pictorial portrait, 9-state S.E. Prof. Photogs. of America
competition
- 1st & 3rd place Scenic, Atlanta Press Photographers Assn.(GA mountains)
- University Photographer's Association (multiple: student activities & sports)
- First competition entered: Honorable mention and cash prize, Brunswick national bowling
photo contest
Assignment locations
- Textile mills in South Carolina
- Real estate development in Florida
- Music publishing in Tennessee
- Projects in most of the remaining states, including Alaska and Hawaii
- Canada, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Germany, Austria and the Czech
Republic.
Assignment Subjects
- Presidents George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower
- U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, "Ladybird" Johnson, Lady Margaret Thatcher,
Atlanta Braves Hank Aaron
- Dr. Bill Bright, Dr. James Dobson; astronauts John Glenn and Jim Irwin
- Former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., former GA Tech Coach and Athletic
Director Bobby Dodd
- Dr. Martin Luther King, "Colonel" Harland Sanders and Mrs. Dale Carnegie
- Campaign Photographer, first Cobb County Commission Chairman, Ernest Barrett, and twenty
years later, for the second Cobb County Commission Chairman, Earl E. Smith
- Singer James Brown in Macon autographing some of 10,000 offset prints from the earlier
concert assignment at the Atlanta Stadium
- Lockheed(-Martin)'s wind tunnel and C-5A aircraft: 1st aircraft completion and C-5
hangar construction
- Atlanta C&S Bank's (now Bank of America) first helicopter daily branch pickups; Atlanta
Spring Cleaning projects
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