Interview with Digital Tech Shannon Roddy

Just as the end of the Dark Ages gave rise to the Renaissance man, so a modern polymath arose from the ashes of the film age: the digital tech, a.k.a. the capture tech. Working on set by the glow of a well-calibrated screen, this discreet Leonardo mingles artistry with acumen to immortalize the photographer’s vision in binary code. Shannon Roddy, at 34 a sought-after New York tech, talked to me about how she got her chops, what it takes to make a shoot go smoothly, and where the unpredictable life of a digital tech has taken her.

You can read the interview in the Winter 2012 issue of Resource Magazine and (in a slightly longer version) on MAC-On-Campus.com.