I recently photographed another cover for the St. Louis Small Business Monthly. This month’s issue features my portrait of Dan Fuller, owner/president of EPC, a company he began in 1984 when Mr. Fuller and a business partner realized they could sell used “portable computers” to corporate types. The partner eventually bailed but Mr. Fuller carried on, turning his fledgling business into a mammoth reducer/reuser/recycler of used computers.

Today Mr. Fuller has more than 200 employees and a handfull of locations around the country. Though he didn’t intend particularly to push his business into a “green” space, the nature of a company that keeps electronics out of landfills, and one that works on the scale of EPC, is inherently green. I was amazed at the EPC facility–a former Target in St. Charles County. Every turn revealed another undulating landscape of computers, printers and electronics of every sort. It seemed to me that the best way to show the impact of EPC’s business was to show Mr. Fuller amid all the mechanisms that he’s rescued from the garbage.
What he does is relatively simple and it’s good business too. I tried to create a photograph that represents not only the scale of his business, but the straightforward approach of what he does. I hope you’ll agree, and read more about Mr. Fuller and his business online at the St. Louis Small Business Monthly.
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