FedEx recently commissioned Doug Menuez to capture the boundless energy and productivity of its Memphis hub for a corporate image library.
“It’s like a nation state—it takes about 20 minutes just to drive from one end to the other of the 500-acre-plus hub,” he says. “Inside, they have 15 million square feet of facilities where the packages flow in to be sorted to their destinations. Around 3 p.m. and again at 3 a.m., there is an explosion of activity as jets land and take off and packages are sorted and shipped. What might seem effortless to us when we click ‘send’ on a shipping order is revealed as an almost insane, gargantuan task.”
Doug had the opportunity to shoot throughout the facility for several days and even pulled an all-nighter. “And, unbelievably, they gave us a brand-new 767 and pilots to photograph as we pleased. We got to circle around doing ‘touch and go’s’ for hours—amazing fun.”
Read and see more at Doug’s Storehouse.co page: “On Assignment: FedEx.”
Photo by Doug Menuez for FedEx.
Photo by Doug Menuez for FedEx.
Photo by Doug Menuez for FedEx.
Photo by Doug Menuez for FedEx.
Photo by Doug Menuez for FedEx.
Photo by Doug Menuez for FedEx.
Photo by Doug Menuez for FedEx.
Photo by Doug Menuez for FedEx.
Photo by Doug Menuez for FedEx.
