Tuesday, August 13, 2002
To whom it may concern
My company, tostee.com, is the official photographic team for the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP). Over the past two years Adrian de Kock has successfully completed contract work for me at the following international surfing competitions:
Event
1. Mr Price Pro 2001Durban
2. Billabong Pro 2001 Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape
3. ISA Quiksilver World Surfing Games 2002Durban
4. Mr Price Pro 2002Durban
5. Billabong Pro 2002Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape
While assisting me and my team of digital photographers at these ASP world championship surfing events Adrian shot action, lifestyle and portrait images. After shooting images Adrian would re-touch and enhance these images for my respective global media contacts. Included in my list of contacts are news agents such as Reuters, Associated Press, Agence France Presse, Australian Associated Press, Allsport / Getty Images. We also supplied images from these events directly to newspapers around the world, from the Sydney Morning Herald to the EP Herald to the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
Apart from shooting and distributing the images electronically via email Adrian also performed web integration tasks where he uploaded images to
www.tostee.com,
www.billabongpro.com and
www.aspworldtour.com.
Adrian is a disciplined individual who understands the demands of photo-journalism. He interacted well with myself and my team and will be a credit to any organization that requires a hard and smart working individual in the photographic world.
Yours sincerely