About me
A highly talented, driven and motivated picture and multimedia editor/researcher with her own photographic portfolio and a proven record of excellent photography and video skills. Experienced in managing visual online content for a news site, including selection, edit and retouching of images for articles, galleries and the home page. Also familiar with photography publication, curating exhibitions and producing various photography projects on a great scale, from inception through production to final delivery, ensuring that all work is effective, appropriate and completed within agreed timescales. Able to work as part of a team as well as on her own initiative. Proven skills in great teamwork with journalists, editors, printers, copywriters, photographers, designers, account executives, web developers and marketing specialists. Now looking for a suitable position with an ambitious and high profile company.
Work history
Picture Researcher
London, United KingdomFull Time
responsibilities: performing various assisting duties on a busy picture desk, looking after visual content of the website, selecting best images for various articles, news stories and features; editing and retouching images, producing creative pictures and graphics, contacting photographers, photo agencies; researching, sourcing images, commissioning appropriate illustrations and images for diverse selection of articles and sections of the website, helping to build news list with suggestions for outstanding and innovative picture stories;
making sure the images are used according to the copyright laws, budget planning;
Picture Editor
- London, United KingdomFull Time
responsibilities: looking after visual content of the website, selecting best images and videos for various articles, news stories and features; creating galleries, slide shows, photo stories and videos; editing, retouching images, choosing top shots for the home page, producing picture stories for the Images section on the website; contacting photographers, photo agencies; researching, sourcing images,
looking after website's photo agencies accounts and subscriptions, supporting news and home page editors, helping to build news list with suggestions for outstanding and innovative picture stories; making sure the images are used
according to the copyright laws; monitoring the traffic of galleries on analytic sites;
Skills
- Image Editing
- Image Researching
- Image Retouching
- Photography
- Adobe Premiere/photoshop/indesign
- Art Commissioning
- Video
- Curating
- Publication
- Copyright
Education
BA in Photographic Arts
- London, United Kingdom
modules: Contemporary Photographic Practices, Contemporary Cultural Theories, Perspectives in Photography, Technologies of the Self, Video, Photographic Languages, Intermediate Photographic Practice, Modernity and After, Thinking Photography, Basic Photography Practice, Photography and Visual Culture;