About the Photographer
Paul Scharff is an unusual photographer.
After getting an MBA from The Wharton School, Paul spent 24 years at the nation's largest advertising agency as a communications strategist for some of the best known brands in America. As such, Paul's interest in photography has always been commercially driven for businesses and organizations. Paul's photos are certainly breathtaking -- but more importantly, they evoke a desired response from prospects and customers. Paul's objective is to give all his clients an edge over their competition.
Paul has never entered a juried competition. His success is measured by his clients' success. If their revenues or inquiries or brand awareness is up, Paul has done his job right.
This doesn't mean that Paul's work isn't beautiful -- it is, as you will see. But it's beautiful in the quest for client business.
Paul's work is in five primary areas:
1. Large and Small Business Promotion. This is work done for advertising campaigns, web sites, billboards, collateral pieces, and social media. Although Paul's largest clients are on the Fortune 100, with some with over $1 billion in revenues, Paul has also shot for individual proprieters, smaller businesses, start-ups, and boutiques.
2. Travel and Tourism. Paul has a large portfolio of work for both domestic and international entities looking to increase tourism traffic. These can be for a regional area or even an entire nation, or for a tourism attraction such as a zoo or museum, or a range of hospitality entities such as hotels. As part of this, Paul has amassed perhaps the largest single stock photography collection of Cape Cod in existence from his work with the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce over the past 13 years.
3. Architectural Interiors and Exteriors. Paul does a lot of work for designers, architects, and construction companies, as well as Realtors looking to increase traffic for their high-end listings.
4. Interior Art. Paul's beautiful shots of locations throughout the United States and the world make perfect wall art for large institutions, such as corporate offices or hospitals.
5. National and Regional News and Editorial. Paul has done photography for a range of media outlets, and has shot seven coffee table books for a Rockport, MA publisher. Over 7,500 of Paul's photos have appeared in print. As part of this, Paul has photographed every President to occupy the Oval Office for 28 consecutive years.
Below is a list of some of Paul's clients. If you would like your organization to be on this list, just give us a call or send us an email. We look forward to helping you improve your standing.
Travel and Tourism
Barbados Ministry of Tourism, Barbados, WI
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne, FL
Biltmore Hotel and Spa, Coral Gables, FL
Brickell Bay Entertainment, Miami, FL
Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, Centerville, MA
Children's Museum of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Children's Museum, Phoenix, AZ
City of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Coopertown Airboat Tours, Miami, FL
DoubleTree Hotels, Newark, NJ
Helmsley Hotels, New York, NY
Hilton Hotels, New York, NY
Jersey Shore Convention and Visitors Bureau, Neptune, NJ
Lebanon Valley Business Association, New Lebanon, NY
Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism, Boston, MA
MetroZoo, Miami, FL
Miami Children's Museum, Miami, FL
New Jersey Division of Travel and Tourism, Trenton, NJ
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix, AZ
Regent Palms, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands
Resort Maps, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
The Sands at Grace Bay, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands
Shelborne Beach Resort and Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Corporate and Institutional Promotion
AARP, Washington, DC
Aesthetics, Inc., San Diego, CA
American Express, New York, NY
AtlantiCare Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Chicago, IL
BP Oil, Houston, TX
Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, MA
Centers Health Care, Bronx, NY
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY
First American National Commercial Services, Minneapolis, MN
Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, FL
Florida International University, Miami, FL
Flying Pig, St. Thomas, USVI
Four Seasons Nursing & Rehabilitation, Brooklyn, NY
George Washington University, Washington, DC
Glendale Adventist Medical Center, Glendale, CA
Global Ionics, Pleasantville, NY
Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME
Hope Health, Kalamazoo, MI
Land Trust Alliance, Washington, DC
Leader Associates Art Consulting, Wayne, NJ
Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA
Mental Health Association of NYC, New York, NY
Morgan Stanley, Red Bank, NJ
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
National Academy Foundation, New York, NY
Pathways Nursing & Rehabilitation, Niskayuna, NY
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Pontiac, MI
The Holocaust Memorial, Miami Beach, FL
The Standard, Portland, ME
United States Department of the Interior, Washington, DC
Architectural Interiors & Exteriors
Berkshire Hathaway Realtors, Middletown, NJ
Century 21 Realtors, Middletown, NJ
Coldwell Banker New Homes, Madison, NJ
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Holmdel, NJ
ReMax Realtors, Red Bank, NJ
Sotheby's Atlantic Bay Realty, Truro, MA
Sotheby's International Realty, Middletown, NJ
VRI Realtors, Atlantic Highlands, NJ
Weichert Realtors, Ocean, NJ
Advertising, Publishing and Media
Avenue Magazine, New York, NY
Blicksilver Public Relations, New York, NY
Boston Globe, Boston, MA
Cape Cod Life, Mashpee, MA
Digital Photographer Magazine, London, England
Franklin Advertising, Yarmouth Port, MA
Guild Publications, Long Branch, NJ
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, Germany
Jersey Shore Publications, Bay Head, NJ
Levy and Associates, New York, NY
Marketing Partners, Bethlehem, PA
McCartin Advertising, Rockville Center, NY
Melissa Messer Design, Grenada Hills, CA
Monmouth Journal, Red Bank, NJ
Morton Advertising, New York, NY
NBC Today Show, New York, NY
NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Patience Publishing, Dallas, TX
Portland Magazine, Portland, ME
Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY
Review and Herald Publishing, Hagerstown, MD
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ
Solari Creative, Eatontown, NJ
Southern New England Living, Hyannis, MA
Storandt Pann Margolis, La Grange, IL
The New York Times Company, New York, NY
Travel and Leisure Magazine, New York, NY
Twin Lights Publishers, Rockport, MA
WKP-Spier, New York, NY