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Decades of Experience, Proven Results

We've been making photographs of corporate subjects for more than 25 years. Before that, we were involved in daily photojournalism at two newspapers in New Jersey. Our photographic images have appeared in major publications throughout the country. 

We create photos that enhance your corporate brand and image while filling journalistic needs of the editors at the major publications. We understand how to create images that editors will appreciate -- and more importantly, images that will get published.

We use professional quality digital photography equipment to compose photos. We can deliver finished photographs to clients on CD-ROM or provide them directly to the news media. We write caption information create and digital text information tags within digital photograph files in the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) format required by major news organizations and international wire services.

Digital Photography for Law Firms: Our article on incorporating digital photography into law firm public relations was published in the December 2005 issue of The Declaration, the monthly magazine of the Association of Legal Administrators Philadelphia Chapter. We've posted a PDF to our website.

Some Examples from My Photo Portfolio

MediaBistro.com: We've been volunteering as the official party photographers for MediaBistro.com's periodic parties in Philadelphia.

If you just want to look at the pictures on MediaBistro.com's site, here are links to our work:

Positano Coast Restaurant, April 8, 2008 Photos also at Flickr.com
Mexican Post Restaurant, April 18, 2007
World Café Live, March 30, 2006
Tangerine, February 23, 2006
World Café Live, January 12, 2006

Canadian Market Researcher Rides a New Jersey Transit GG-1: In 1980, I accompanied David Kwechansky, a Toronto-based market research consultant, as he rode one of NJ Transit's GG-1 electric locomotives. Here are some photos taken during that ride. I recently rediscovered and scanned my Kodak Tri-X negatives from the trip.

Ocean City, NJ: We had a wonderful week at the Shore. Here is a selection of photos from that trip.

Chicago: In August 2005, I spent a weekend in Chicago. The weather was magnificent, the Gold Coast Street Art Festival was in full swing, and the photographic results are here for your enjoyment.

1980 Democratic Convention: I was on the floor of the 1980 Democratic Convention for about 45 minutes; here are some photos I shot during that brief visit.

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Art Photos

Peddler's Village, New Hope, PA

Winterthur, the Delaware estate of the DuPonts

Archival Photos: I've scanned some of my older negatives and slides from great concerts of the 1970s. Check out these portfolios.

Peter Allen and David Bromberg: Peter Allen, above, photographed in 1978 at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ. Allen appeared with David Bromberg. See photos. Some of these photos are now being displayed on David Bromberg's official website.

Meatloaf at Monmouth College, 1978: This was the first time I used Kodacolor 400 to shoot a concert.

Italian Street Festival, New York, 1979: Street festivals are great places for photography. The people, the activities, the food and crafts, all lend a special flavor.

Celebrity Photos: People who wanted to have their picture taken with Steve.

 

Steve Shooting at SNCR

Steve making photographs during the New Communications Forum in April 2008, Santa Rosa, CA. Steve's images from the conference are here.

Steve's photography has been featured on the cover of Smart Business magazine four times in the past six months. Covers are below.

Photo courtesy Leticia Gomes

Lubetkin Communications' Corporate Photojournalism Division Scores Five Magazine Covers in Less Than a Year

Lubetkin Communications is pleased that its corporate photojournalism is delivering high impact imagery for business publications like SmartBusiness.

Photographic assignments for SBN Publications have landed our work on the cover of the October, December 2007, and April, July, and September issues of Smart Business Magazine. Watch for additional cover photography in the next several months.

October 2007 Smart Business Cover Photo of Judy Spires, President of Acme Markets


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December 2007 cover photo of John Grierson, president of Delaware Valley Division of Pulte Homes

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April 2008 cover photo of Gerald Schreiber, CEO of J&J Snack Foods Corporation, Pennsauken, NJ.

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July 2008 cover photo of Bill Nelligan, president of IMS Health Americas, Plymouth Meeting, PA.


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September 2008 cover photo of Mark Martino, chairman of Maaco Enterprises, King of Prussia, PA      

 

Here are some samples of our recent work . You can see more of our photography on our Flickr.com photostream.

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WMT Youth of Year

Wal-Mart Supports New Jersey Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year Competition: Finalists in the New Jersey Youth of the Year competition, sponsored by Wal-Mart, visited the retailer's Cherry Hill store recently where they shopped for professional clothing for their interviews in the state finals of the competition.

See the photos here.

 

Music Videos and Photo Montages: We can create high energy music videos and photo montages from your still images or from ones we create at your events. we produced this music video for the Public Relations Society of America's Philadelphia Chapter, based on their annual Pepperpot Awards ceremony.

Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA - Sunday March 9, 2008: The Catholic-Jewish-Muslim Dialogue of Southern New Jersey held its second annual "Breaking Bread Together" Workshop at Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in Haddonfield. More than 100 members of the Catholic, Muslim, and Jewish communities participated in workshops about the way each religion understands God, and then broke bread with a multiethnic buffet reception. Father Joseph D. Wallace, pastor of Christ the King Church, led a workshop on Roman Catholic and Christian views of the nature of God.

See more photos from the event here.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Tuesday April 8, 2008: MediaBistro.com held an All-Media party at Positano Coast Restaurant, 212 Walnut Street

Shown here is John Ghazvinian, author of "Untapped" who described his book and gave a short reading.

See more photos from the party here.

Corporate and professional portraiture that doesn't look posed or staged: Because of our journalism background, we look for ways to portray executives and professionals that don't appear to be artificially staged in studios. We created this image of William Holland, vice president of commercial lending at Yardville National Bank, Hamilton, NJ, for the Winter 2007 issue of NJBanker magazine.
Wal-Mart and Philadelphia Police Athletic League sponsor "Shop with a Cop" Event for inner city children: We made images for Wal-Mart during this event at the Roosevelt Boulevard Wal-Mart store.
   
In 2005, we photographed Paula Abdul during a personal appearance at the Wal-Mart store in Audubon, NJ.
   
NJBankers Hosts Annual Business Outlook Conference: We provided photographic support for the NJBankers Association's annual Outlook, which featured New Jersey Banking Commissioner Steven Goldman (right), Dr. Joseph Seneca from Rutgers University (below, right) and Lakeland Bank Chairman Roger Bosma (below, left). We specialize in creating dramatic and unusual images from conferences. We're not just creating your father's "grip-and-grin" images.

 

Steve's Philippines Trip

Steve made a weeklong trip to Manila at the end of September 2006 to appear as a keynote speaker at the 13th National Public Relations Congress held by the Public Relations Society of the Philippines . During his visit, he had the opportunity to make some photographs at the conference and around Metro Manila. At right is a photo of Maximo V. Soliven, publisher of the Philippine Star newspaper, one of the leading newspapers in the Philippines. Soliven spoke at the conference right after Steve. On November 24, 2006, Soliven died suddenly during a business trip to Japan.

You can see more of these photos here.

 
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The second Breaking Bread event was held in March 2008.

Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA - Sunday March 9, 2008: The Catholic-Jewish-Muslim Dialogue of Southern New Jersey held its second annual "Breaking Bread Together" Workshop at Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in Haddonfield. More than 100 members of the Catholic, Muslim, and Jewish communities participated in workshops about the way each religion understands God, and then broke bread with a multiethnic buffet reception. Among the organizers of the program are (from left): Farhat Bividji, co-chair of the Catholic-Jewish-Muslim Dialogue group; Patricia Sandrow, a member of the Catholic-Jewish Commission and the dialogue; Gloria Mazziotti, co-chair of the Catholic-Jewish Commission and member of the dialogue, and Zahida Rahman, member of the dialogue.

See photos here.

 

More than 100 people attend "Breaking Bread Together," Sunday, November 19, 2006, sponsored by the Catholic-Jewish Commission and its Catholic-Jewish-Muslim dialogue group. The interfaith program focused on Catholic, Muslim, and Jewish holidays and their significance. Organizers of the event met with lecturers following the program. From left: Alan Respler, JCRC Executive Director; Farhat Biviji, Muslim lecturer; Rabbi Lewis Eron, Jewish lecturer; Gloria Mazziotti, co-chair of the Catholic Jewish Commission and co-chair of the Breaking Bread program committee; Msgr. John Frey, Roman Catholic lecturer; and Zia Rahman, managing director of the Voorhees American Muslim Society and a co-chair of the three-way dialogue group.
Photo used in Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey See more photos from this event here.
   
Brookdale Community College: Arthur Z. Kamin, former publisher of the Red Bank Daily Register and currently an adjunct professor of journalism at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ, introduces a panel on the future of American Journalism.
   
Hovnanian Homeowners: This photo of José and Jean García is part of a continuing assignment for K. Hovnanian Homes, featuring homeowners in their new Hovnanian residences. See the photo in context with the article we prepared, on the K. Hovnanian Four Seasons website.

 

Robert Hazzard played a club gig June 2, 2006 at The Tin Angel in Philadelphia. Hazzard died suddenly in August 2008. We've posted our concert photos from that night on Flickr.

See the photos here.

 

On May 25, 2006, Steve was aboard Amtrak Train 2100, an Acela Express, when a massive power outage shut down Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. He shot these photos with his Treo 650 cell phone camera. So far, the photos have appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer and Newark Star-Ledger websites, and on page one of the Inquirer the day after the outage.

We can create dramatic photojournalism for your business or editorial needs. Please inquire about our photography and videography services.

Copyright ©2006 Steven L. Lubetkin
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Lubetkin Communications now has a photography store where you can purchase prints and other merchandise decorated with photos from local events we cover. Please visit our store at http://lubetkin.eventpictures.com for photos and more information.

 

Many organizations make philanthropic contributions to local not-for-profit organizations. We bring a journalistic eye to these check-presentation events, and we've had significant success refashioning these photos with a fresh look and a new perspective that deliver results with editors. This photo (left) was posed for Fleet Bank at a contribution to the St. Joseph's Carpenter Society in Camden, NJ. It appeared -- with a full photo credit -- in NJ Biz magazine, one of the leading business publications in New Jersey. Download PDF clipping.

Event Photography: We can make photographs at special events that will engage the interest of your employees and external audiences, for use in your newsletters, brochures, and communications materials. These two photos were taken at the "Customer Day One" ceremonies for Bank of America in Buffalo, NY.

 

Video Slideshows: Engage us to photograph the participants in your conference, reception, or other event and we can create a motivational, uplifiting video montage for your attendees to enjoy at a program-closing event. Here are some examples of video montages we've created for clients (You'll need Windows Media Player to view these videos):

Client: Temple Emanuel, Cherry Hill, NJ

Social Action Committee Conducts Cleanup and Planting at Holocaust Memorial: Volunteers from the Social Action Committee cleaned up and planted new shrubbery at the Camden County Holocaust Memorial 2002 cleanup project, Sunday, May 5, 2002 (Windows Media Video). 

November 21, 2002 Mitzvah Mall: South Jersey Community joined Temple Emanuel to support Israeli shop owners and artisans by buying Israeli products and crafts at the Mitzvah Mall in our social hall. (Windows Media Video)

October 20, 2002 Mitzvah Walk at Cooper River Park, sponsored by  Temple Emanuel's Social Action Committee. (Windows Media Video) 

Client: Cherry Hill High School East Cheerleading and Dance Team

Friends Forever, Season Retrospective Video: Shown at the Cheer/Dance Team Awards and Recognition Banquet, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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