About me
Full of ideas, I am a highly driven, committed and passionate individual, currently working as part of the Art Department at Storm Model Management. My experience at Storm has developed my practical and collaborative skills, focusing on image coordination, website maintenance and engaging social content.
Work history
Creative Lead and Art DepartmentStorm Management
London, United KingdomFull Time
Working as part of the Art Department, coordinating imagery, updating print and digital model portfolios and managing social.
Main Role Responsibilities:
• Understanding briefs to design and curate electronic press kits (EPK’s) of talent for clients using InDesign.
• Following brand guidelines to create marketing material such as mail-outs, newsletters and social media artwork.
• Strategically running Storm’s social media accounts, with over 397k Instagram followers and over 100k twitter followers.
• Updating the website content using Umbraco whilst assisting the IT Manager to improve the site, meeting with developers and inputting new ideas.
• Taking in-house digital polaroid’s and using Photoshop to retouch images as well as shooting ‘walking’ and ‘personality’ videos both in the studio and on location to send to other agencies and clients.
• Editing video footage in Premiere Pro to creatively showcase talents work and press to either fit briefs and/or share across our social media platforms.
• Chaperoning models under 18 on photo-shoots, including a shoot in New York City.
• Overlooking and liaising with printers companies for business cards, scout cards, booklets and posters.
• Working with agents to design and create on-brand presentations/decks for proposals.
• Curated artwork, hand-outs and poster advert for a modelling competition in collaboration with Brit Asia TV.
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Fashion PR and Events InternMoon Communications
- London, United KingdomInternship
Part-time internship role assisting Moon’s founder and working directly with brands and talent. Here I gained a full understanding of social media and the working relationship between brands and influencers.
Main Role Responsibilities:
• Attending meetings and press events, often accompany talent.
• Involved in planning of client events from location viewing to sending invitations.
• Following research tasks and reaching out to brands for collaboration.
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Skills
- Photography
- Photoshop
- Retouching
- Fashion Photography
- Adobe
- Creative
- Design
- Film Photography
- Indesign
- Premiere Pro
Education
BA(Hons) Fashion PhotographyLondon College of Fashion, UAL
- London, United Kingdom
- Graduated with high 2:1 at B+.
- Developed original concepts and ideas using extensive research to produce photographic materials and publications.
- Studied multiple projects such as Research Methods, Image Construction, Fashion Spreads, Cultural and Historical Studies, whilst prioritising work towards deadlines.
- Contributed to an exhibition shown at House of Vans, inspired by the space located under Waterloo Station. The piece consisted of hand-made light box to display Harry Beck’s Tube Map design underneath a fashion image only visible when switched on titled “Veins of London”, a metaphor for underground London keeping the city to flow.
- Produced project from written brief titled Radical Beauty, in which I questioned “How the blind interpret beauty?”, working collaboratively with a Hair and Make-Up Artist, Stylist, and Model to advise on a studio shoot. The portfolio was submitted in print.
- Gained A- in ‘Collaborative Experimental Practice’ focusing on “Identity in Lost Luggage”. The project involved purchasing unclaimed lost luggage at auction and using other people’s perception of character in clothing and props to create a fabricated identity for a publication.
- Additional skills include: Specialist use of Adobe Suite. Confident use of digital and analogue (35mm and medium format) cameras, experienced in processing, developing and printing in the darkroom, regular practice of both Flatbed and Hasselblad Flexi film scanners.
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Foundation Diploma in Art and DesignCentral Saint Martins
- London, United Kingdom
- Specialised in ‘Graphic Design and Communication’ and ‘Fashion Communication and Promotion’, learning basic skills in layout, typography and printing techniques.
- Learning to cope with fast-paced projects using time management techniques to work towards a final exhibition deadline.
- Took part in a Live Project with fashion designer Phoebe English creating a branding campaign poster.
- Regular peer critiques and tutor tutorials.