Jake Dean, a staff photographer at the Dallas Business Journal, died Saturday.
Editor in chief Jeffrey Schnick writes, “As a publication that serves an executive audience, Jake had to wear a few distinct hats. He required the creative touch of a portrait photographer (posed, candid and conceptual), the adaptability of a documentarian (photos, video and scripts) and the deftness of a technician (apertures, Drobo drives and mirrorless).
“He also had the hopeless task of explaining the language of photography to me, and it quickly became a running joke between us that when I understood F-stops, that was proof that hell had indeed frozen over.
“Leaning into my management playbook, the ideal answer proved to delegate that trust to Jake and rely on his expertise. Fortunately, he obliged, likely for the sake of his sanity.”
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