Welcome. I'm Andreas Gebhard, and andreasgebhard.com is my personal website. Ich bin ein Berliner but I live in New York City.
I'm a Director and Technologist in the Editorial division at Getty Images, working closely with our award winning News, Sport and Entertainment photographers. My role includes both day-to-day operational and long-term strategic work that usually reaches deep into technology's domain.
On this site I publish some of my thoughts that are too long to explore on Twitter. I'm interested in a wide range of topics from photojournalism and photography in general to design and many other aspects of technology. I usually find user interfaces, logic, code and software much more fascinating than whatever the hardware specs of the latest gadget of the day are. And yet, at the same time I explore the impact some of those gadgets have on human behavior, our society and journalism.
Aside from my role at Getty Images, I am an active member of the IPTC (a news industry standards body) and currently serve on its Board of Directors.
I've been at Getty Images since July 2005, and before that I worked as photographer and editor at the news agency ddp (now dapd but then very much a startup). Prior to ddp I was a photographer at dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur, the oldest and largest news agency in Germany. I've also written software, consulted on technology, designed newsroom workflows and the databases that make them possible.
Thanks for stopping by, if you'd like to , go ahead and do so.
One more thing...
As I said, this is very much my personal website. None of the views expressed here reflect or represent the opinions of my current employer or those of any of my previous employers or clients. They're mine alone, unless otherwise noted.
