As a consultant Paula can give you an objective edit and help you shape a conceptually coherent visual package and direction. By helping you identify your strengths and strongest images, she can facilitate an understanding of your unique identity and give you ideas and direction to develop your artwork, services, or brand.
Why edit? One of the last and most important steps of pulling together a great body of work is to review, edit and sequence your photographs. This crucial review gives direction and identifies both the strengths and weaknesses of any given project and determines our next steps. Through grouping and sequencing images, one can create a rhythm and dialogue between the images and start to form an intention for the final body of work. The goal is to have the work speak for itself.
She can assist with the following:
- editing, grouping and sequencing images for portfolio, exhibition, or book
- group images so that their intention is clearly conveyed
- reviewing web site functionality, design, and ease of use
- targeting images for marketing promo or show announcements
- identifying images that have a commercial application for book jackets, illustration, stock or editorial use
- coaching to prepare materials for a portfolio review event
Recent clients:
Sara Jane Boyers – Edited and sequenced images for Sara’s website. www.sarajaneboyersphoto.com In the 2009 I collaborated with her to create “Into the Chinatowns” a 50 page color promotional magazine using Adobe Indesign for layout, printed and distributed using Mag Cloud. I edited & sequenced a images pulled from Sara’s extensive eight year photo project about Chinatowns in the United States and Canada. To see the magazine click on the following link. INTO THE CHINATOWNS. www.sarajaneboyers.magcloud.com I also had the pleasure of writing an introductory essay as guest photo editor for this magazine. Gillen_IntotheChinatownsEssay.pdf
Barry Steven Greff – For Barry I have worked as a photo editor selecting images and shaping bodies of images for his portfolio and website, www.barrystevengreff.com I recently worked with Barry to create a full page print ad for March 2010 Photo District News. BarrySGreff_PDN_AD.pdf we also created a banner ad.
Michelle Litvin – I assisted Michelle’s with an edit for her project 65 (Domiciles) on her website. http://www.michellelitvin.com/
Lewis Wilkinson – Edited photographs for Lewis’ commercial & fine art websites. Edited the images and designed the book, “Born to Dance” a poetic series of photographs and quotes to benefit the non for profit modern dance company, Amaranth Dance. Wilkinson_AmaranthDance.pdf Edited and developed a book piece that showcases Lewis’ fine art photography series for Fotofest 2010, titled Souzou: Unfolding Visions. Wilkinson_Souzou.pdf See more of Lewis work here: www.uponreflection.com
Carmel Zucker – Carmel was having a show in Boulder and she asked me to edit a new body of photographs documenting an organic farm in Colorado. To build a narrative and to show more than one image at a time, I suggested that she present these images as a series of triptychs. They just seem to me to work well together as threes, maybe it was the square format. Here is a selection of groupings that I put together for her to consider. CarmelZucker_GillenEdits.pdf You can see more of Carmel’s work here. www.carmelzucker.com
Ewa Monika Zebrowski – Collaborated with Ewa to create an affordable artist promo of her images to hand out at Fotofest 2010. The edit was pulled from various bodies of work to bridge both the editorial and fine art worlds. After I did the initial edit we worked on the layout, editing and sequencing to create a promo that had a contemporary magazine look and a quiet fine art sensibility. We used Magcloud to print, and Indesign to layout the magazine. EwaMonikaZebrowski_ArtistPromo.pdf To see more of her work http://www.ewazebrowski.com
Past Clients include:
- Juliana Beasley
- Stephen Collector
- Ron Diorio
- Susan Ericksson
- Blake Fitch
- Karen Glazer
- Jessica Hines
- Joel Jameson
- Jeff Martin
- Arthur Meyerson
- Larry Pratt
- Gary Rhodes
- Dana Romanoff
- Eric Smith
- Christophe Tedjasukmana
- Phil Toledano
- Jelena Vukotic
- Juanjuan Yu