He spent the next decade working as a freelance art director for major brands including Colgate, Sprint, Phillip Morris, Royal Caribbean, Clairol, RCA, and Xerox.
Over the course of the year he traveled from his native New York to London, San Francisco, Yosemite National Park, Los Angeles, and Washington DC to collect his images.
His subjects included Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, politico Tucker Carlson, Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Imogen Heap, essayist Geoff Dyer, Lord Bath, humanitarian Terry Waite, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, TV personality Mo Rocca, historian James Burke, adult film star Nicole Sheridan, activist Chelsea Sexton, and physicist Brian Greene.
A departure from his earlier, more intimate work, Drabbles were a voyeuristic look into more scripted image often with the subject playing a role.
The resulting series of portraits garnering interest from the online photographic community and he was interviewed by several notable photography blogs.
[7][8] The On Taking Pictures podcast, about the more cerebral parts of photography and art creation, was hosted by Bill and Jeffery Saddoris; they talked weekly.
[1] Wadman's portrait of Malcolm Gladwell was requested to be in "About Face", a show of famous Ontarians by the lieutenant governor of Ontario.