An Open Call To Photographers/Videographers For Your COVID-19 Stories From Home

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Capture Stills and Video of Times Square Digital Ad on October 24

I worked as a BTS photographer on this project with the NYC mayor's office. The link is to the BTS photos I took and edited. 

ShiftNYC

A series of headshot portraits in their office in NYC.

WeWork shoot - Documentary/Portrait style 

Want a stress-free way to travel through Central Florida? Here’s what you need to know about planning a trip on the Sunrail.

Riding the Sunrail in Orlando

Miss Universe Titleholder Photoshoot

23 amazing volunteer climbers from across the country set out to summit Mt. Shasta’s 14,179-ft. peak in honor of all those affected by breast cancer. I photographed the climb for The North Face, which included product photography of their new line of Breast Cancer Awareness Month apparel.

The North Face Pink Ribbon Campaign

As this vast mine in Pakistan’s Thar Desert attests, the world’s No. 1 cause of carbon emissions will be a major source of electricity for decades, despite the outcry against it

Pakistan’s Milewide Open Air Mine Shows Why Coal Won’t Go Away

I shot with film and TV star Jacob Elordi for Just Jared Jr. for a "10 Fun Facts About Jacob" Article!

Kissing Booth Star Jacob Elordi

She’d never been to a Women’s March. Then Texas banned almost all abortions.

Women Maya softballers brush off machismo insults to become Mexican superstars.
Text by Mark Viales & Photographs by Bénédicte Desrus

Publication in NPR' Goats and Soda (USA)

MichaelRubin #allwhiteparty 2023 ✨

Lots of people are preparing to cash in as America opens up to legal cannabis. So why do many of the women who’ve grown weed in Northern California for generations feel so left behind?

FADER -- How The Legal Weed Industry Is Squeezing Out Women Growers

Kurt Moser takes passion to the next level. His is for photography - for capturing beauty. Using a 111 years old, 2 meters long and 70kg camera. He captures breathtaking large format images

The Lightcatcher 

Hello there! I worked as a camera op and Floor Manager at Bronxnet Television for 2+ years and am working at the Lehman College Multi-Media Center since December 2019. I have worked as a Production Assistant on several projects including the 2019 documentary "The Bronx, USA".  As well as a BTS photographer/production assistant for a production run by the NYC major's office. And most recently as a production assistant/assistant gaffer for a project in Newark highlighting Black run businesses. 

Excited to get my hands dirty and get to work! 

Nathanial G.

Hi, I'm Shannon Wolfgang, mom of two and a native of Orlando. I have seen our beautiful city grow in many ways and have been able to experience various trends and cultures while capturing moments. I share our adventures of art, travel, food, and fun in the images I take while promoting the Central Florida area and beyond. It is fun experiencing some old yet new adventures within my children's eyes. After graduating from the University of Florida with a degree in Magazine Journalism, I realized I had a passion for storytelling, and I love to talk. I landed back in O-town and started a 10+ year career in print and digital media designing for various national magazine publications. During those years, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to work overseas on a fashion magazine in a foreign language. After working a decade at the magazine company in Winter Park, I went out on my own as a freelancer, which included contract work for national brands and various agencies around Orlando.  One client turned full time for 3.5 years, but I went out on my own once again. This time was different, and we turned everything we knew into a business. I always wanted to help people, and this was a way I could artistically.

Shannon W.

I'm a Filipino/Chinese-American Celebrity Photographer living in Los Angeles. I specialize in creating a story within the moment with an aim to capture the talent in a stylized fashion whilst maintaining authenticity to who the artist is.

My photography has been published in Just Jared Jr. for an edgy boy next door article of EUPHORIA star Jacob Elordi, a Euro-inspired GQ spread of Netflix's FEAR STREET Actor Jeremy Ford, THIS IS US star hot and wet summer spread of Mike Manning for MetroWeekly, FREAKY star Misha Osherovich in studio style for Them Magazine, Summer Wear Collection with Model Carson Mosser for Huf Magazine, a grungy shoot with the face of Jim Bean Whiskey's Jordan James Smith for MITH Magazine and various stars like WESTWORLD's Aurora Perrineau, ROSWELL's Michael Vlamis, TRUE DETECTIVE's Alex Rich and Netflix' FATE star Abigail Cowan for DEADLINE. 

I've also shot with stars like YELLOWJACKET's Samantha Hanratty, GREEN INFERNO's Kirby Bliss Blanton, THE MIST's Luke Cosgrove, BULLET TRAIN's Joey King, TEEN WOLF's Andrew Matarazzo, HOW I MET YOUR FATHER's Tom Ainsley, CHICAGO PD's Benjamin Levy Aguilar, GLEE's Abraham Lim, A MAN CALLED OTTO's Kelly Lamar Wilson, WHITE LOTUS's Lukas Gage, WRONG TURN's Dylan McTee, DEVOTION's Spencer Neville, DYNASTY's Eliza Bennett, CHEVALIER's Alex Fitzalan, LEGACIES Nick Fink, THE BOLD TYPE's Aisha Dee, THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR's Roby Attal and many others.

Christopher L.

I am an independent, self thought photojournalist and documentary photographer; Born in Karachi, Pakistan, since my early childhood I started working for a small old photo-studio in my neighbourhood learning B/W film processing. Later I joined local advertising agencies, covering fashion, commercial and product photography, and following step into the freelance world.
“Those who know not about themselves write stories”
For now I am a freelance photojournalist. I do it not to boast of my expertise but to please my inner soul. As a person I want to achieve a rank amongst the best of photojournalist. Living at the edge and reaching the core of the problem. I do not provide solutions with my photographs; I just want to capture the real unadulterated picture of the world as I see it through my lens. The sense of responsibility I have gained during my experiences with the people around me has been a picturesque journey. Doing photography is a passion and along with it I keep my soul satisfied through the lens in a way to educate people on what is the condition around them and by giving those areas exposure that are yet to be discovered.
I have worked for local and international newspapers, magazines, NGO’s and stock agencies around the world. My photography covers range of international politics, humanitarian issues, socio-political issues and environmental works.
Participated group exhibitions Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh at Whitechapel Gallery London in 2010.

Newspaper:
The New York Time
The National (UAE
Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
The Star (Toronto Canada)
The Boston Globe (USA)
The Sunday Times (UK)
Dutch Daily Trouw (Netherlands)

Magazines:
TIME
Spiegel Wissen
Vanity Fair
Forbes Magazine
Bloomberg Market Magazine
Bloomberg Businessweek

NGO’s:
WWF-UK
WaterAid-UK
ActionAid -UK
Oxfam GB
CABI
The Path
UNDP
Food and Agriculture Organization for United Nation (FAO)
International Organization For Migration (IOM)

Asim H.

Shareif Ziyadat is the creative force behind Shareif Ziyadat Productions, an all inclusive, in-house art production company that enables clients to bring a project from conception to completion. Shareif’s dual expertise as a Creative Director and Celebrity Photographer provides the platform for both observation and creation. Whether shooting editorial, album packaging or developing global advertising campaigns, one thing is always present, Shareif's unique perspective as a definer of a hip and modern lifestyle.
 
Growing up in Yonkers, New York, Shareif was immersed in Hip Hop culture and learned to discern what trends would be fad or future in the culture. This background has pushed him into being one of the most sought after photographers by a who’s who of celebrities within contemporary culture. Shareif also received a B.A. at the School of Visual Arts and is the recipient of numerous advertising industry awards, including the prestigious Clio, ADNY Award, as well as recognition fro

Shareif Z.

I am a photojournalist based in Boston and New York City, with over 15 years of experience covering breaking news, interviews, and portraiture for major publications.

I am proficient in shooting video projects and have 5 years experience with ENG video and DPing. Assignments have taken me around the world, from Homs to Everest, for clients including National Geographic, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde. My kit is centered around mirrorless Sony cameras and Zeiss lenses, which allows me to work quickly and unobtrusively to capture natural moments.

My documentary photography exhibition, Modern Miracles, was featured at the Maqad Sultan Qaytbay in 2017. With a focus on revealing the imprint of the spiritual world, my work aims to find deeper meaning in the everyday.

I deliver professional results on time and on budget while bringing a unique perspective to each project.

David D.

Masoud Soheili is an Iranian filmmaker, photographer and festival director. He has won more than 40 awards from over 300 film festivals with his movies "Blue-eyed boy" (2014) and "Elephantbird"(2019).
He was a member of 9 film festivals, including the Yogya Netpac Asian Film Festival (2015) , Avanca International Film Festival in Portugal (2016 and 2018), SAARC Film Festival in Sri Lanka (2017), International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala in India (2018), Malatya International Film Festival in Turkey(2018), Dhaka International Youth Film Festival in Bangladesh (2020), Accra Indie Film Festival in Ghana(2022), Chaktomuk Short Film Festival in Cambodia (2022) and Azemeis Film Festival in Portugal(2022). Masoud is the co-founder and creative director of the "Asia Peace Film Festival" in Islamabad, Pakistan, and programmer of the "Changing Perspective Intentional Film Festival" in Istanbul, Turkey. He also worked as a festival director of the Inaugural "Safe Community" International Film Festival in Mashhad, Iran (2017).

Masoud S.

Sara Lafleur-Vetter is a multimedia journalist with a passion for telling stories of the underdog and the underbelly of society. As a videographer, photographer, writer, and radio journalist, she’s covered everything from social orphans in Russia to Native resistance camps at Standing Rock. She holds an interdisciplinary degree in Anthropology and Russian from Reed College. Lafleur began her journalism career in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she documented local NGOs including an organization for the homeless, a kid circus, and an institution for the disabled. Afterwards, she lived in Luxor, Egypt documenting ancient temple blocks for the American Research Center in Egypt. She received her Masters from the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2015, where she won a Dorothea Lange Fellowship for her photography. She spent over half a year covering the Native-led resistance camps at Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, which she is working to develop into a feature length film. 

Sara L.

Filmmaker. Award-winning documentary director. I script, direct, shoot and edit. Human interest, environment, food, culture and politics, in no particular order. 
Shooting locally, thinking globally is the motto. Traveling is a way of life. 
Love telling stories in all shapes and forms. Believer in strong visuals and their power to tell. 

Shira P.

Austin Meyer is a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in Oakland, CA. He is a National Geographic Explorer and his work has been featured by HBO, Hulu, Apple TV, National Geographic, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, PBS NewsHour, and Al Jazeera among others.

Meyer graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. degree in creative writing and an M.A. degree in journalism. After graduation, he was selected as the winner of the New York Times’ International Reporting Trip with Nicholas Kristof competition, for which he reported for the New York Times in Baltimore, India, and Nepal.

Meyer has worked as a videographer at the Los Angeles Times and was awarded an IDEO storytelling fellowship, during which he reported for Slate on the social and environmental impacts of hydropower dams along the Mekong River in Southeast Asia. In 2018 Meyer was awarded a National Geographic Explorer grant to create a documentary film on maternal healthcare in Zambia. His documentaries have screened at the American Documentary, Mill Valley, & Milwaukee Film Festivals, as well as in the National Geographic Short Film Showcase and Atlantic Selects series.

Meyer’s purpose as a documentarian is to tell stories that change the way people walk through the world by inspiring empathy, curiosity, and wonder. He is passionate about telling vulnerable and intimate stories that are emotionally moving, break down stereotypes, and compel people to take action in order to make our world a better place.

www.austinmeyerfilms.com
@austinmeyerfilms on social media

Austin M.

Experienced video Director /DP /producer, and Editor , photographer and Drone Operator  with FAA Part 107 license and insurance . Team player, skilled at pre-visualization and working with variety of clients to create storyboards and help conceptualize ideas tailored to their needs and messaging. Work with commercials, branded content, Documentaries and corporate videos - internal and external, I am adept at taking a project from initial concept all the way through to final deliverables. In addition I film 360 VR videos, do live streaming, and have done lots of  aerial filming all around the world.  I have done extensive work with animators and graphic designers and have experience with green screen filming and lighting. In addition I have extensive studio  experience in both still and video productions. I have contacts at numerous companies and am great at pitching and bringing in new business.
I edit on Premiere  and After Effects and have several drones including the Inspire and Mavic 3 Pro.


Aaron F.

                               	     
  	                                                         
                  
                                                                      
        
Documentary Storyteller developing documentary projects with a focus on social issues within urban settings. Territory, landscape, political borders, and conflict are recurrent themes in my work.
Originally from Mexico, currently based in Washington DC, I hold a BA in Architecture and a MA in New Media Photojournalism from the Corcoran School of Arts + Design at the George Washington University.

I am interested in getting involved in projects with a collaborative team of people that share the goal of making an impact through the creation of meaningful storytelling.

Proficient user of Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, Final Cut, InDesign, Illustrator, Audition among other software.

  Currently based and available for assignments in Washington DC and Mexico City. 


Maria Luz B.

Bénédicte Desrus is a French documentary photographer based in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
(In July 2024, she will be back in Mexico City and will be based there.)

She is represented by Sipa Press agency USA and has worked throughout Europe, East Africa and the Americas.

She focuses on social and human-rights issues around the world. Her long-term photo projects explore the lives of people ostracized by society, and the communities they form to survive and find respect. Recent stories explored the lives of elderly sex workers living in a shelter in Mexico City, the persecution of homosexuals in Uganda, the killing of albinos in Tanzania and the global obesity epidemic.


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Her work has appeared in: NPR, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, National Geographic, Netflix, Harper’s magazine, The New York Times, Time, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, World Policy Journal, The Nation, Slate, Saveur, The Toronto Star, Maclean’s, Alberta Views, The Financial Times, The Sunday Times magazine, The Guardian, The Observer, BBC, Arise, Le Monde, Libération, Revue 6Mois, Courrier International, L’Équipe, Internazionale, Néon, L’Espresso, Der Spiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Udvikling, Aftenposten, Jyllands Posten, Dagens Næringsliv, De Volkskrant, Globus, Gazeta Wyborcza, Esquire, Marie Claire, Grazia, Elle, Henne, Annabelle, Welt Der Frauen, La Jornada, El Universal, Soho, Chilango, Gatopardo, Revista Somos, La’Isha, The British Journal of Photography and L’oeil de la Photographie, among others. 

An archive of all publications located here: www.benedictedesrus.contently.com

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She has received commissions from a wide range of clients, such as: Adidas, NBC Universal, Ford Foundation, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Post DHL group, Airbnb, Luxury Retreats, Néstlé, GEFCO, Ipsen, Gaz de France Foundation, Capa Pictures, Reuters-East Africa, Blink, The European Commission, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNESCO, Global Fund For Women, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), WaterAid, Help Age, Tanzania Albino Society (TAS), South Sudan Microfinance Development Facility (SSMDF), Population Service International (PSI), among others. 

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Published in the book “40 ans de photo-journalisme. Génération Sipa” or 40 years of photojournalism. Generation Sipa by Michel Setboun & Sylvie Dauvillier, © 2012, Éditions de La Martinière in France.


She is the co-author of the book "Las amorosas más bravas" or Tough Love, © 2014, FONCA, Mexico. The eight-year-long project documents the day-to-day lives of the women living at Casa Xochiquetzal, a unique shelter for elderly sex workers in Mexico City.

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She has earned numerous awards and distinctions including:
2020 Addis Foto Fest (Ethiopia)
2018 Indian Photography Festival – Hyderabad (India)
2016 Pride Photo Award (The Netherlands)
2016 SoPhot Photo contest (France)
2015 Syngenta Photography Award (UK)
2014 Moscow International Photo Awards (Russia)
2013 Humanity Photo Awards (China)
2013 REVELA International Photography Award for the Social Rights Holders (Spain)
2012 Coahuila’s Contemporary Photography Contest (Mexico)
2012 New York Photo Awards (USA)
2012 International Photography Awards (USA)
2012 NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism (USA)
2012 OPEN Photo – OSISA / Open Society Foundations (South Africa)
2012 PDN Photo Annual (USA)
2012 New York Photo Festival (USA)
2012 Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards (Malaysia)
2011 Pride Photo Award (The Netherlands)
2011 Humanity Photo Awards (China)
2011 XIV Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography (Spain)
2011 Open Society Institute - Moving Walls 18 (USA)

Bénédicte D.

Irina Logra is a pet and nerd friendly award-winning photographer who dedicates her life to helping conscious businesses and wonderful individuals thrive. Once you set her on a task to bring betterment to your life, she'll do everything possible not just to reach but to exceed your expectations. To make sure such an ambitious goal is achieved, Irina utilizes only top-notch equipment, hires talented and reliable professionals, and never stops learning new techniques and tricks, even if it requires spending a night browsing TikTok. She is even willing to register on Snapchat to test how your content will look there.

 

When Irina is not helping Mitsubishi, Cirque du Soleil, Cadillac, Adobe, Citizen, Walmart, Kaspersky, UCLA, Mt. Wilson Observatory, Jaguar Land Rover, Renault, Frame.Io, GoDigital develop captivating visual content, she is probably nerding out on quantum theory, rock climbing, painting by numbers, kickboxing, but most likely reading Adweek and researching the latest marketing trends. Yet all these activities can eventually become tiresome. She's actually much happier serving her true purpose - working with you on exceeding your goals. If you are a conscious business or a wonderful individual, please, drop her a line.

Irina's life is meaningless if she is not helping others, so do not hesitate to contact her even if all you need is advice.

Irina L.

Lucas Mullikin here. Media and storytelling Swiss Army knife. Classically trained but operating outside the box.
My work strives to breakthrough traditional storytelling paradigms. Producing content that drives audiences' sense of understanding. Inspiring interest and fostering perspective whenever opportunity arises. 

For over a decade,  I've been working full-time as a journalist, field producer, videographer, audio tech, photographer and editor.

I'm constantly looking to elevate stories that bring light to circumstances often overlooked in mainstream media. Focusing on narratives outside the norm while exploring the elements that make us who we are. I strive to have my work to raise awareness on wide range of issues affecting communities across the planet.

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