Glenn Haggis

About

I am a South African photographer and IT professional with over 20 years of enterprise mainframe experience. Combining technical expertise with visual storytelling, I have photographed jazz and rock concerts, corporate events, fashion shows, weddings, art exhibitions and book launches. I work in both digital and analog formats, hand-printing gelatin silver images in the darkroom, and I am proficient in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. My multidisciplinary background in photography, web development and design enables me to produce visually compelling content tailored for digital publishing and news environments.

Contact

glennfhaggis@icloud.com

Others

Off social. So far, so good.

Work Experience

2019–Now

Photographer, Web Developer

Self Employed

Freelance photographer currently documenting jazz musicians locally and more recently photographed the 2025 edition of the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands. This ongoing personal project that started in 2019 is shot entirely on 35mm black and white film and selected negatives are then hand printed in a traditional darkroom. A sample of this work entitled Blue like Jazz can be downloaded here.

2008–2019

Analyst Programmer

First National Bank

Running, maintenance and upkeep of the First National Bank internal billing system.

2005–2008

Storage Administrator

IBM South Africa

Remote technical storage support for IBM customers based in Europe and the United Kingdom.

1999–2004

Systems Engineer

Computer Resource Management

Installation, maintenance and support of the Macro4 PLC (an UK based software company) range of software products in Southern Africa.

1994–1998

Storage Administrator

Standard Bank of South Africa Limited

Technical storage management & capacity planning/capital expenditure for the bank's entire storage environment.

1993–1994

Systems Programmer (Performance Management)

United Bank/ABSA

IBM mainframe & storage performance/capacity management.

1987–1993

Associate Systems Engineer

Persetel (Pty) Ltd

Software support, maintenance and problem management at Persetel customer data centers countrywide. Persetel sold, maintained and supported Hitachi Mainframes that ran on IBM's MVS operating system.