Gary Fong had a busy day planned on the morning of June 4, 2007. In fact, when a call came from the human resources department at his newspaper, Gary said he needed 10 minutes to transmit photos to a New York client before meeting with them.
“I hung up the phone and said, ‘Lord, you’re moving me today, aren’t you?’”
At the meeting that followed, Gary Fong was informed that his career with The San Francisco Chronicle was ending. After 32 years as a photographer, director of photography and director of editorial graphics technology at the Chronicle, Gary needed to be out by the end of the day — another victim of the contracting newspaper business. He spent most of that day frantically wrapping up a book project he had been putting together on deadline.
