Live Action Getup: Downtown LA Creative Meeting

Dressing for a client meeting in an incredibly casual industry in an incredibly casual city can be baffling. I photographed Primer reader Shane right after a pitch to a client. Guess what? He got the project.

By Shane Martin / Additional Writing By Andrew Snavely / Photos By Andrew Snavely

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Shane Martin

Shane Martin is an avid Primer reader and founder of Lean Mean Creative Machine, a design and marketing agency based in Los Angeles.

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