Under the direction of the photo director, I assisted as a liaison between editorial departments in assuring the production of editorial photo shootsâwhile also handling photo research, and retouching merchandise in preparation for editorial story boards.
Prepared images of merchandise for presentation on www.pinkclouds.com; during assignment I was singlehandedly responsible for the retouching of the entire boutiques inventory. That included task such as silhouetting, color correction, optimizing for web, and blemish removal of models skin. Weekly I turned around over a hundred images.
Handled the light duties of the production team of N6, learning more about how outsourced production works
Editorial writer and photographer for College Street style website. Due to successful advertising of articles and the upsurge in Internet traffic that followed, I was selected to contribute to various media outlets; most notably an article with USA Today college division.
Selected to work alongside senior photo researchers at Teen Vogue. During the internship became skillful in the process of image licensing and image research, which involved becoming knowledgeable of image source sites and the functions of copyright in publishing.
Worked alongside the editorial in chief, in supervising the creative direction of the Penn State University funded magazine geared towards successful female students. Under my position I managed a full staff of photographers and stylists in coordinating shoots for articles throughout the magazine. Successfully, increased magazine circulation by the thousands by enhancing covers, and including fashion orientated material within the magazine.
I was selected out of thousands of applicants to participate in the competitive IMG World internship program. Here I worked with the Art and Commerce agency in assisting with the production of high profile editorial and advertising shoots. I completed the internship with new knowledge in production.
Performed administrative and special duties with startup creative agency and photography studio based on communication skills. I had the opportunity to interact with clients, while assisting on set for photo shoots.
Here began the initial steps towards my pursuits of a creative career. I contributed to this organization by supporting graphic designers, animators, and videographers in logistic support, while being taught the functions of all essential creative software and hardware such as Adobe.
Independent fashion, and commercial photographer.
Fashion, Art, Film, Photography, Magazines