Paula Gillen, Photo Researcher and Book Design, Boulder, CO.

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Paula is skilled at locating and licensing a wide variety of images, from the most obscure to the very famous, in an efficient manner at affordable prices.  

  • Client: Headwaters Magazine Summer 2017Project: Locate photo for cover on data gathering in CO pertaining to water issues and farming. Details: Agribotix FarmLens™ System Drones capture near-infrared sensor readings over fields in Colorado’s Eastern Plains. Courtesy Agribotix/background image © Google, 2016
  • Client: Headwaters Magazine Summer 2017Project: Locate image for article on Water Management in CO and Data Gathering. Details: Photo left PRECISIONHAWK; RIGHT: Photo PAULA GILLEN
  • Client: Headwaters Magazine Summer 2017. Photo by Paula GillenProject: Photograph Jason Smith, water commissioner for District 7 of the South Platte Basin, on location during a normal day. Details: Jason Smith, water commissioner for District 7 of the South Platte Basin, checks a stream gauge on Clear Creek. Smith lowers a drop weight into the water to ground truth the remote reading he receives by computer.
  • Client: Headwaters Magazine Summer 2017. Photo by Paula GillenProject: Photograph Jason Smith, water commissioner for District 7 of the South Platte Basin, on location during a normal day. Details: Jason Smith can now administer the water in Clear Creek from his computer, even when he’s in the field, saving him countless hours, thanks to remote streamflow monitoring.
  • Client: Headwaters Magazine Summer 2017Project: Locate public domain photo to illustrate article on water data gathering in Colorado. Credit: HENRY REGES/COURTESY COCORAHS HQ
  • Client: Headwaters Magazine Summer 2017. Photo Matthew Staver. Project: Hire Matthew Staver to photograph WISE developers by coordinating with South Metro Water Supply Authority staff to set up photo shoot. Details: WISE developers find it hard to imagine how WISE partners would trade water without the web portal. Pictured at the Smoky Hill Water Tank in Aurora are portal developers along with South Metro Water Supply Authority staff (left to right) Mark Mitisek, Leonard Rice Engineers; Ben Tyler, Leonard Rice Engineers; Klint Reedy, CH2M; Logan Burba, South Metro Water Supply Authority; Katy Kaproth-Gerecht, Leonard Rice Engineers; and Angie Brown, South Metro Water Supply Authority.
  • Client: Headwaters Magazine Summer 2017. Photo by Paula GillenProject: Photograph Steve Maiers in Ft. Collins office for Headwaters Magazine. Details: Steve Malers, founder of the Open Water Foundation, works from his Fort Collins office to provide open source software and improve open data sharing and visualization across Colorado.
  • Topic: Water and HealthPaula Gillen - Photo EditorPhotographer - Matt Staver
  • Photographer: Paula GillenSubject: Water InfrastructurePortrait of Dale Colerick/Hillrose, CO
  • Client: Penguin-Random House BooksProject: Book Jacket - Hollywood talent agent, Sue MengersDetails: Locate images from (1970s, 80s, and 90s) from stock agencies and photographers. Organize and present images to art director via Dropbox. Purchase and research books and magazines from this time period. Copy and send spreads to art director. Research copyright and clearance for selected image for cover.
  • Client: Oxmoor House PublishingProject: Southern Living: The Official SEC Tailgating CookbookProject Details: Locate, orgainize, and present images of 14 South Eastern Conference universities and football teams to illustrate a cookbook that had a mix of contemporary and historical imagery. Subjects included campus architecture, school football traditions, mascots, historical university sports imagery, current tailgaiting activities, and local travel destinations including tourist attractions, hotels, resturants, etc.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure.comProject: Locate images of architectural projects being built for the London Summer Olympics for use in a T&L.com video.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure magazineProject:  Locate images for a double page Cox and Kings Travel ad running in Travel and Leisure magazine
  • Client: Travel and Leisure for Chico's.comProject: Advertorial series - Destination Fabulous featured on Chico's clothing website.Details: Locate, organize, and license travel images for art director at Chico's and also work with editors at Travel and Leisure.com. Supply photo credits, organize payment, create a Google doc spreadsheet of vendors info for Travel and Lesiure art director.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure for Chico's.comSubject: Advertorial series called Destination Fabulous written by T+L and featured on Chico's Clothing website.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure for Chico's.comSubject: Advertorial series called Destination Fabulous
  • Client: Travel and Leisure for Chico's.comSubject: Advertorial series called Destination Fabulous written by T+L and featured on Chico's Clothing website.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure for Chico's.comProject: Advertorial series - Destination Fabulous featured on Chico's clothing website.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure for Chico's clothingProject: Advertorial series - Destination Fabulous featured on Chico's clothing website.Details: Locate, organize, and license travel images for art director at Chico's and also work with editors at Travel and Leisure.com. Supply photo credits, organize payment, create a Google doc spreadsheet of vendors info for Travel and Lesiure art director.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure for Chico's.comSubject: Advertorial series called Destination Fabulous written by T+L and featured on Chico's Clothing website.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure for Chico's.comProject: Advertorial series - Destination Fabulous featured on Chico's clothing website.
  • Client: ECOS CommunicationsProject: Denver Zoo Asian Animal ExhibitionProject Details: Hired to locate and license images of a variety of Asian animals and their specific behavior.  Also, locate images of S.E. Asian cultural topics and environmental issues for same exhibit. Images were used on outside panels with text.
  • Client: ECOS CommunicationsProject: Vicksburg National Military ParkProject Details: Hired to locate and license historical images, maps, and illustrations for the redesign of the Vicksburg National Military Park's wayside signs and educational panels. Vicksburg, MS.
  • Client: Cortina ProductionsProject: Interactive video display for the Ralph J. Carr Judicial Center in Denver, CO. Details: Locate judicial milestones from Colorado history, find images about LGBT issues, reproductive rights, and CO interracial history. Research at the Boulder's Carnegie Branch Library, Denver Public Library - Western History and Genealogy Digital Collections, and the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, Denver, CO.
  • Client: Debra Silverman and Findhorn Press Project: Book: The Missing Element Details: Client came to me with a very short deadline to illustrate chapter openers for her upcoming book The Missing Element. I had to locate images that illustrated the human personality types of Water, Air, Earth, and Fire.
  • Client: Debra Silverman and Findhorn Press Project - Book: The Missing Element Details: llustrate chapter openers for The Missing Element. Illustrate the human personality types and characteristics found in Water, Air, Earth, and Fire.
  • Client: Debra Silverman and Findhorn Press Project: Silverman's Book: The Missing Element Illustrate: Personality type
  • Client: Linkwell HealthProject: Locate images of celebrities for magazine prototype. Details: Obtain a variety of recent celebrity portraits at medium resolution to be licensed for this magazine prototype,
  • Client: Studio Tectonic Project: Bal Seal Corporation - display on company historyDetails: License historic metal shop and scientific images to be composited and placed behind Bal Seal products for corporate display
  • Daniel Hennessy shot this Christmas cover for FLMT magazine.
  • Paula Gillen - Photo Editor (2009)Photographer - Lori Adamski PeekHire photographer, models, and stylist. Work on location to Utah to help direct on set.
  • Paula Gillen - Photo Editor (2009)Photographer - Lori Adamski PeekHire photographer, models, and stylist. Go on location to Utah to help direct on set.
  • Photo Editor: Paula Gillen (2009)Photographer: Seth Hughes Details: Arrange shipping of product to Boulder work with photographer on idea for photo.
  • Photo Editor: Paula Gillen (2009)Photographer: David RaccugliaSubject: Daron RahlvesDetails: Location scouting and work with photographer and stylist on location outside of Leadville, CO
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