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SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY

Videographer & Multi-Media Designer

Southeastern is Louisiana’s third-largest public university, boasting 14,440 students and more than 150 programs of study. Southeastern provides students with a challenging college experience that empowers them with a lifelong education.

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Southeastern 100

As Southeastern begins its second century, Southeastern celebrates what they have accomplished and look forward to what is yet to come.

STORYPORTRAIT MEDIA

Camera Operator, Sound Recordist, Motion Graphics Designer & Editor

Short documentaries and commercial projects for online content with stills and footage shot multiple formats, including Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 7D, Canon C100, edited in Final Cut Pro and Premiere CC, with motion graphics created in After Effects. Assembled rough cuts to fine cuts with footage, a variety of assets, motion graphics, and audio elements, as well as color correction and sound mixing. Created compelling motion graphics with an understanding of storytelling structure and how motion graphics integrate into that structure.

StoryPortrait Media produces visual storytelling content: photography, documentary film, and socially engaged public art projects, for visionary leaders, organizations, businesses, and artists working towards the empowerment, justice, and well-being of all. StoryPortrait Media aligns with individuals, organizations, businesses, and artists who are on the leading edge of social evolution. Clients included: Academy for the Love of Learning, Verve Gallery of Photography, Love + Leche, Fresc, Youth Shelters & Family Services, Santa Fe Waldorf, and Easter Seals to name a few. WEB: CLICK HERE

STORYPORTRAIT MEDIA CLIENT VIDEOS

ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING: Two five-minute web promotional videos shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR and edited in Premiere CC. The mission of the Academy for the Love of Learning is to awaken, enliven, nurture and sustain the natural love of learning in people of all ages.

VERVE GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: 13 ten-minute artist profiles shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR and edited in Premiere CC and Final Cut Pro 7 with motion graphics created in After Effects. Established in 2003, VERVE was a leading vendor of the very best there is in every genre of contemporary fine art photography worldwide.

Tony O’Brien’s work as a documentary photographer has appeared in many national and international publications. He is the director of the photography program at the Marion Center of Photographic Arts at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. He is the author of 'Afghan Dreams: Young Voices of Afghanistan' , Bloomsbury Press 2008 and 'Light in the Desert: Photographs from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert', the New Mexico Museum Press, 2011.

Susan kae Grant’s photographic and book-works are included in numerous collections including, The George Eastman House, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Minneapolis Art Institute, The Tokyo Museum of Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Victoria and Albert Museum National Library. Grant received an MFA in Photography and Book Arts in 1979 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has conducted workshops, lectured and exhibited her work throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, British Columbia, Africa and Japan. Since 1975, Grant has produced 13 limited edition handmade books. She has actively participated on the board of directors of the Society for Photographic Education and various other community service organizations. In 2003, she was the recipient of a public art commission in which she served as the designer for the Southwestern Medical District/Parkland Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Station, which opened December of 2010. From 1979-1981, Grant taught as a faculty member at Wayne State University. In 1981she joined the faculty at Texas Woman’s University where she currently serves as head of Photography and Book Arts. She is on the staff of the International Center of Photography where she teaches workshops annually. In 2003 and 2005, she was the recipient of the Society for Photographic Education “Freestyle Crystal Apple Award” and “The Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award” in 2004 from the Santa Fe Center for Photography. For more information, visit: http://www.vervegallery.com/

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Ryuijie was born in Otaru Japan in 1950. He moved with his family to the US as a young child. Over the years, Ryuijie has lived in many places. It was in Monterey that an exhibit of Jerry Uelsmann’s Photographs inspired him and propelled him to do fine art black and white photography. Ryuijie has pursued his photographic vision for twenty-eight years, and during that time has acquired a reputation for exquisite platinum-palladium prints. His work has appeared in View Camera, Photovision, Camera and Darkroom, Black & White and Lenswork. He has published three books, Ryuijie: Photographs, Time and Place, and Fragments of Time. Works by Ryuijie can be found in collections worldwide. For more information or to purchase work, visit: vervegallery.com/

Maggie Taylor received her BA degree in philosophy from Yale University in 1983 and her MFA degree in photography from the University of Florida in 1987. After more than ten years as a still life photographer, she began to use the computer to create her images in 1996. Her work is featured in Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor’s Landscape of Dreams, published by Adobe Press in 2004; Solutions Beginning with A, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, 2007; and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, 2008. Taylor’s images have been exhibited in one-person exhibitions throughout the U.S and abroad and are in numerous public and private collections including The Art Museum, Princeton University; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; and The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea. In 1996 and 2001, she received State of Florida Individual Artist’s Fellowships. In 2004, she won the Santa Fe Center for Photography’s Project Competition. 2005 she received the Ultimate Eye Foundation Grant. She lives in Gaineville, Florida. To view more of her work, visit: http://www.vervegallery.com/?p=welcome A production of StoryPortrait Media, www.storyportraitmedia.com

Nevada Wier is a multiple award-winning photographer specializing in documenting the remote corners and cultures of the world. Nevada's journeys have taken her throughout the deserts, mountains, and urban jungles of the globe. She has been published in numerous national and international publications, including: National Geographic, Geo, National Geographic Adventure, Islands, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, and Smithsonian. Getty, Corbis, and Blend represent her stock photography. Her fine-art prints are featured in numerous and public and private collections. Nevada's books include are The Land of Nine Dragons - Vietnam Today (Abbeville Press), winner of the Lowell Thomas Best Travel Book of 1992 award, and Adventure Travel Photography (Amphoto). She is a Fellow of The Explorer’s Club and a member of the Women’s Geographic Society. Nevada was featured in a National Geographic Explorer television episode on her travels down the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia on assignment with National Geographic magazine and was one of the photographers in Through the Lens for the National Geographic Channels. She was a frequent photographer on Canon Photo Safaris (Outdoor Life Network) and regular guest on The Travel Channel. She has been a speaker on the nation-wide tour LIVE …from National Geographic. Nevada is a prolific featured speaker for workshops, seminars, professional panels, and conferences. Nevada is also an Adobe Influencer with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, and has been featured in two video promos for Adobe Lightroom. Nevada instructs photography workshops for National Geographic and The Santa Fe Workshops, and other educational institutions. She is currently on tour with the National Geographic Traveler CREATIVITY WITH LIGHT nation-wide seminar series. Please visit her website, www.nevadawier.com For more information, please visit: http://www.vervegallery.com/?p=welcome A production of StoryPortrait Media, www.storyportraitmedia.com

for VERVE Gallery of Photography, http://www.vervegallery.com/?p=welcome

This video is a biographical survey of Jennifer Schlesinger-Hanson’s photographic art from 2003 through 2012. Schlesinger-Hanson is an artist, curator and writer who been based in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1996. This video shows the progression of the artist’s photographic career beginning with the 35mm film, gelatin silver prints of the Earth Series; the large format film work of the Moon Series; the large format color C-prints of the Sky Series; the large format pinhole, gelatin silver prints of the Object Diaspora series; and the handcoated Albumen prints of the Here nor There series. To learn more about the artist, visit: http://www.jenniferschlesinger.com The biographical video on photographer and artist Jennifer Schlesinger-Hanson was produced by Story Portrait Media, www.storyportraitmedia.com and sponsored by VERVE Gallery of Photography, http://www.vervegallery.com/ in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

HEATHER ROBERTSON: BODY OF BUSINESS: Two-minute and four-minute web promotional videos shot on the Canon5D Mark III HDSLR and C100 and edited in Premiere CC with motion graphics created in After Effects. Heather Robertson is an entrepreneur, advisor, speaker and educator.

ELIZABETH OPALENIK: REFLECTING ON THE EDGE: Ten-minute documentary shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR & Canon C100 and edited in Premiere CC. Elizabeth Opalenik is a photographic artist, educator and freelance photographer traveling the world.

We are given something new each moment, we are given a new life each moment, to be awake in. No giving up on us! Here, try again. Have another moment ... and another. Take a lifetime if you need it. This video is a brief introduction to the teachings of Joan Sutherland, Roshi. The mission of Cloud Dragon : The Joan Sutherland Dharma Works is to make the groundbreaking teachings of Joan Sutherland, Roshi widely available in written, audio, and video forms. Her work is a fresh imagining of the Zen koan tradition, rooted in its original understanding of all of life as a process of awakening. For Joan Sutherland, the first woman roshi in her lineage in the Americas, endarkenment is as essential as enlightenment to awakening, and much of her work is an exploration of the power held in the radiance of the dark. The Dharma Works is the place to access Joan Sutherland's published writings, videos, and the audio archive of her talks, as well as a growing body of transcripts of those talks. To learn more, visit: http://www.joansutherlanddharmaworks.org/

RADIANCE OF THE DARK: 12-minute documentary shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR & C100 and edited in Premiere CC. Radiance of the Dark is a short film on Joan Sutherland's Zen vision of awakening that embraces endarkenment as well as enlightenment.

LOVE + LECHE: A three-minute web video & 45-second commercial shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR and edited in Premiere CC with motion graphics created in After Effects. Love+Leche produces luscious soap and lotion bars using raw ingredients of goat milk, beeswax, calendula and natural essential oils.

45-second Commercial: CLICK HERE

The Global Warming Express is a climate change advocacy organization created by kids for kids. It was founded by two nine-year-old girls in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after they learned about climate change and endangered species in third grade. One girl, Marina Weber, wrote a book about global warming to send to President Obama, and she enlisted the help of her classmate, Joanna Whysner, to illustrate it. The book will be published this year. In the two years since its inception, The Global Warming Express has become a fast-growing movement. Marina and Joanna created the GWE Club as an after school club at Acequia Madre Elementary School. Plans are in the works to expand the GWE club to as many as eleven other schools in Santa Fe and surrounding communities for the 2014-2015 school year. Please visit: http://theglobalwarmingexpress.org/ for more information.

THE GLOBAL WARMING EXPRESS: 60-second web video shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR & Canon C300 and edited in Premiere CC with motion graphics created in After Effects. The mission of the Global Warming Express is to educate children in the areas of science, climate literacy and sustainability and to facilitate opportunities for children to use their voices through the visual, performance and public speaking arts.

FRESC's mission is to build power to ensure that our economy and political system work for all Colorado residents, especially low income people, communities of color and immigrants. We create this change by engaging unions, workers, faith communities and neighborhoods to advance innovative policy solutions. To learn more visit: http://fresc.org

FRESC: A seven-minute web video shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR and edited in Premiere CC with motion graphics created in After Effects. For 15 years , FRESC has been a strong and consistent voice on issues affecting low wage workers and their families.

The Galisteo Basin Preserve is a land conservation and community development project located in Santa Fe County’s Galisteo Basin—an ecological region of fragile beauty and diversity celebrated for its scenic, cultural, and wildlife values. The Galisteo Basin Preserve is planned to conserve and restore more than 13,000 acres of open space as well as promote thoughtful, stewardship-oriented community development. For more information visit: http://www.galisteobasinpreserve.com/index.php

GALISTEO BASIN PRESERVE: A three-minute web videos shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR and edited in Premiere CC with motion graphics created in After Effects. The Galisteo Basin Preserve is a conservation-based community development located 14 miles south of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

LES ANN HOLLAND | PINK MOON: A ten-minute documentary shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR and edited in Premiere CC. Les Ann Holland: Pink Moon was created for Les Ann Holland in conjunction with the Harwood Art Center's inaugural CSA program.

Youth Shelters and Family Services delivers life-changing services to homeless, runaway, and in-crisis youth in northern New Mexico by providing shelter and addressing health, safety, education, and workforce opportunities so they may lead independent and meaningful lives. Youth Shelters and Family Services serves more than 1,000 homeless, runaway, and in-crisis youth and family members each year. Most are local—75% from Santa Fe and Santa Fe County alone—and another 10% from other communities in Northern New Mexico. Youth from elsewhere in the state and around the country also access services. This year, more than 1.7 million children in America will be homeless. It is a serious problem in this country as well as right here in Santa Fe. To learn more, please visit: http://www.youthshelters.org/

YOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES: Two eight-minute event and web promotional videos shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR and edited in Premiere CC and Final Cut Pro 7 with motion graphics created in After Effects. Youth Shelters & Family Services is a Santa Fe-based non-profit organization dedicated to helping at-risk and homeless youth find a way home and a path to a productive, happy life.

2013 Video: CLICK HERE

Beginning with the intimacy and warmth of early childhood to the challenging and experiential curriculum of our grades, and culminating in the academic and artistic rigor of our high school, the Santa Fe Waldorf School offers an exceptional education for your child from toddler to young adult. If you're seeking a school with a truly integrated curriculum that cultivates each child's cognitive, creative, physical, emotional and social capacities we invite you to consider the Santa Fe Waldorf School, the only private school in Santa Fe offering the complete educational journey from pre-school through high school. To learn more, visit http://www.santafewaldorf.org/

SANTA FE WALDORF SCHOOL: A 15-minute and three-minute promotional videos shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR and edited in Final Cut Pro 7 with motion graphics created in After Effects. The Waldorf independent philosophy of teaching empowers and stimulates young minds as they develop in a warm, creative environment.

2011 Video: CLICK HERE

MICHELE WORSTELL: NILA BINDU: Six-minute documentary for online content shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR and edited in Final Cut Pro 7. Michele Worstell, owner of Nila Bindu, is an artist, jeweler, and independent business owner.

JAMEY STILLINGS: THE BRIDGE AT HOOVER DAM: A twelve-minute documentary and a A 60-second commercial for the Phoenix Art Museum shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR and edited in Final Cut Pro 7. The Bridge at Hoover Dam, is a photographic essay and exhibition by Jamey Stillings. This film was produced in conjunction with the Phoenix Art Museum.

Custom Furniture Today: In the Carpinteros Tradition Southwest Spanish Craftsmen, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is preserving classic motifs and woodworking techniques that stretch back to 1600, and at the same time, we're creating furniture for contemporary customers who value sophisticated design, craftsmanship and heirlooms. How we achieve all this sets Southwest Spanish Craftsmen apart. To learn more about Southwest Spanish Craftsmen and the custom furniture they design and build, please visit their website: http://southwestspanishcraftsmen.com/ A StoryPortrait Media Production, http://storyportraitmedia.com/

SOUTHWEST SPANISH CRAFTSMEN: Seven-minute web profile shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR and edited in Final Cut Pro 7. Southwest Spanish Craftsmen, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, preserves classic motifs and woodworking techniques that stretch back to 1600, and at the same time, they create furniture of sophisticated design, craftsmanship and heirlooms.

EASTER SEALS EL MIRADOR: Four five-minute promotional videos shot on the Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR and edited in Final Cut Pro 7. Easter Seals provides exceptional services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that people living with autism and other disabilities can live, learn, work and play in our communities.

NEW MEXICO WOMEN IN FILM

Graphic Designer, Producer, Camera Operator, Still Photographer, Motion Graphics Designer & Editor

Commercial projects and Public Service Announcements for online content with stills and footage shot multiple formats, including Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 7D, edited in Final Cut Pro and Premiere CC, with motion graphics created in After Effects. Assembled rough cuts to fine cuts with footage, a variety of assets, motion graphics, and audio elements, as well as color correction and sound mixing. Created compelling motion graphics with an understanding of storytelling structure and how motion graphics integrate into that structure. Developed and designed marketing materials, including logo, and posters for print and website.

New Mexico Women in Film is a New Mexico-based outreach network committed to the professional development and achievement of women in the film and television community through Mentorship, Networking, Education, and Community. WEB: CLICK HERE

Promotional video for the NM Women in Film Fiesta!

CRONE’S EYE COLLECTIVE

Motion Graphics Designer

Commercial project for online content with stills and footage shot on multiple formats, with motion graphics created in After Effects. Created compelling motion graphics with an understanding of storytelling structure and how motion graphics integrate into that structure.

Lead by award-winning documentary filmmaker Cristina McCandless, Crone’s Eye Collective combines mastery in documentary storytelling with three decades of business management and entrepreneurial expertise. Client included: Currents New Media Arts Festival. WEB: CLICK HERE

CRONE’S EYE COLLECTIVE CLIENT VIDEOS

Sample the cornucopia of new media delights that is CURRENTS

CURRENTS: Five-minute web promotional video. The CURRENTS Santa Fe International New Media Festival is an annual art event in New Mexico.

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NEW MEXICO FILM FOUNDATION

Motion Graphics Designer & Editor

30-second Public Service Announcement for online content with stills and footage shot on multiple fomats, edited in Premiere CC, with motion graphics created in After Effects. Assembled rough cuts to fine cuts with footage, a variety of assets, motion graphics, and audio elements, as well as color correction and sound mixing. Created compelling motion graphics with an understanding of storytelling structure and how motion graphics integrate into that structure.

The mission of the New Mexico Film Foundation is to grow the independent film industry in New Mexico while offering financial assistance and educational opportunities to New Mexico Independent filmmakers. WEB: CLICK HERE

OUR LADY OF THE MISSISSIPPI ABBEY

Editor

Five six-minute web promotional videos for online content with stills and footage shot on the Sony EX3, and edited in Final Cut Pro 7. Assembled rough cuts to fine cuts with footage, a variety of assets, motion graphics, and audio elements, as well as color correction and sound mixing.

Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey is a community of women in Iowa who belong to the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance. The Abbey of Our Lady of the Mississippi is located near Dubuque, Iowa. The nuns there are members of the branch of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly referred to as Trappistines. They are a part of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Dubuque. WEB: CLICK HERE

• A Day in the Monastery: https://youtu.be/E3FyflW3btQ

• Community Life: https://youtu.be/otcojjNirsA

• Becoming A Cistercian Nun: https://youtu.be/DxPd1mL8DUk

• Monastic Practices: https://youtu.be/3jiWeNgjp2A

• Monastic Work: https://youtu.be/a_Mt6JT5EV8

Commercial Work (Copy)