HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH EVERYTHING & GET THE PICTURE — Photo Editor, Art Director & Book Designer
HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH EVERYTHING Selected and sequenced over 500 photographs to align with the content themes and photographic instruction. Selected images from Popular Photography’s archive, and also worked directly with photographers to source additional images to properly illustrate a concept. Worked with the editorial team weekly to present ideas and work on edits. Designed book cover-to-cover. Publisher: Weldon Owen, 300 pages link
Audience shift goal: Everyone can learn how to take amazing photographs by learning several simple techniques.
GET THE PICTURE Selected and sequenced over 300 photographs to align with the content themes and photographic instruction. Selected images from Popular Photography’s archive and sourced additional images from photographers around the globe from various photographic archives and licensors to properly illustrate a concept. Worked with the editorial team weekly to present ideas and work on edits. Designed book cover-to-cover. Weldon Owen, 220 pages link
Weldon Owen’s publishes how-to coffee table books by finding influencers and co-authoring the content to create their beautiful, signature 200-300 page books. Every book is written and developed chapter by chapter over four to five months. As art director and photo-editor, I conceptualized the coffee-table book design/art direction and designed the books cover-to-cover, creating visual content for every page. Art-directed photo-shoots. Art-directed illustrators. Sourced visual content. Worked with the editorial team weekly to present ideas and share progress. Readied book for print.
Callista Media and Palace Press publish non-fiction coffee-table picture books about cooking, deluxe volumes on popular culture, and how-to’s on every subject. Click links to see books.
BOOK LIST
The Lonny Home by Sean Santiago, WO, 2019
Misfits, Merchants, and Mayhem, Cameron + Company 2018
Small Space Style by Whitney Leigh Morris, WO, 2018
The Complete Cocktail Manual by Lou Bustamante, WO, 2016
Get the Picture, Dan Richards, WO, 2016
Gluten-Free Bread Baking, Callista Media
The Complete Book of Home Organization, 2015 and
The Complete Book of Clean, by Toni Hammersley, WO, 2014
How To Photograph Everything, Popular Photography, WO, 2015
Safe in the Arms of Love, SP, 2001
The Complete X-Files, Behind the Scenes, Myths, and the Movies, Palace Press, 2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: A Photographic Journal, Palace Press, 2008