He has also served as campaign photographer for President Jimmy Carter and former mayor Walter Washington, shot the Watergate hearings and documented his travels as a research assistant working for the late Dr. Chancellor Williams. They have been shown in exhibitions in the United States and China and published in major magazines ranging from Billboard and Jet to U.S. News and World Report. He has worked for most of the major record companies, including Sony, Arista, MCA, Motown and Polygram. The past 27 years went by fast because I was doing something I loved. It's been great.
Every assignment is different.
I'm working for my friends, eating in the best restaurants, staying in the best hotels, traveling in limos, hanging out backstage. It really has been a holiday. But even holidays can be dangerous. Growing up in Brooklyn and Queens, Ogburn saw some of his friends get into serious difficulties because of their use of drugs. Hanging around the intense partying on the music scene confronted Ogburn with similar temptations.