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Highly creative professional, passionate about unfolding imaginative concepts and bringing them to life. Acquired over 20 years of professional experience working with leading industry creatives, stylists, directors and clients in many different fields.

“Whether creative and edgy, personal works of art, editorial or commercial work, it’s always about the drive to create images that inspire wonder!”
Clients
Commercial Images have been used by (partial list):

Blue Cross Blue Shield
Miller Lite Beer
CitiBank
Microsoft Corp.
Bank of America
Coors/Zima beverage
CBS TV
US Postal Service
Parker Brothers Corp.
Inside Edition TV
Illinois Power
Time Life Books
St. Martins Press
Random House
Shaklee Corp.

Editorial images used by (partial list):

American Photographer, New York, USA 
An Nahr Arabe et International, Beirut, Lebanon
Economist Magazine, London, England 
Evening Herald, Dublin, Ireland 
Hayat, Istanbul, Turkey 
Le Nouvelliste, Quebec, Canada
Madhya Pradesh Chronicle, Bhopal, India
Manila Bulletin, Manila, Philippines
Wah Kiu Yat Pao, Hong Kong
Phileftheros, Nicosia, Cyprus
Reporter, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Shenyang Wanbao, Peoples Republic of China
Suomenmaa, Helsinki, Finland
The Voice, Castries, St. Lucia
Time Magazine (cover) USA
Vogue Magazine, USA
 
 
Professional Experience
Mel Sauerbeck

SUMMARY

Highly creative professional, passionate about unfolding imaginative concepts and bringing them to life. Acquired over 20 years of professional experience working with leading industry creatives, stylists, directors and clients in many different fields.

“Whether creative and edgy, personal works of art, editorial or commercial work, it’s always about the drive to create images that inspire wonder!”

PROFICIENCY

• Imaginative: Not afraid to break out of the box and apply critical thinking to find solutions

• Advanced knowledge of image editing software to bring out the exceptional

• Professional level experience in photographic principles and equipment

• Thrives in collaborative working environments


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1992 - current: NavaSwan Images - Owner/Photographer

Created award-winning images that appeared in countless publications in over a hundred countries (Vogue magazine, American Photographer, New Age Journal, Time magazine cover, and hundreds more). Highly successful image creator with photos used in commercial and editorial locations in over 100 countries. (e.g. conceptual, people, beauty, lifestyles, art and travel locations worldwide).
Represented for over 20 years worldwide, as a contributing photographer with Getty Images.

1988 - 1992: Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY - Imaging Systems Manager

Imaging Systems Manager at Time Inc. Magazine’s IMPACT Center, a multi-million dollar, state of the art hi-resolution imaging center, servicing all of Time-Warner’s major publications, including: Time, Life, People, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Money magazines. Within this Imaging Center each and every image used in these publications was selected, processed, scanned, retouched, made page ready (according to the unique requirements of the individual magazine), merged with editorial text, proofed, corrected and then transmitted, via high speed satellite, to teams around the world for hi-resolution film output and delivery for time critical printing. This Imaging Center operated 24 hours a day, virtually every day of the year, under extremely demanding editorial deadlines. Responsibilities required a close working relationship with the photo editors and production teams for all of these titles. Successfully lead the management of remote Time Inc. Magazine sites including: Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, London, Netherlands, Seoul Korea, Canada, as well as 11 locations across the United States. Shared management responsibility for over 200 people in the central Imaging Center in New York city and direct management responsibility for more than 50 people in remote US satellite offices. 1982 - 1985: Age of Enlightenment News Service - Director of Photography

Produced and managed news and documentary photography for AE News service. Working in Washington D.C., New York, Europe, India, the Philippines and Fairfield. Personally organized the production of more than 30,000 prints a week, distributed worldwide.

Awards: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE, 1989-1990 - Time Inc. Magazines

Education: MBA from MUM. Fairfield, Iowa 1985

PHOTOGRAPHS PUBLISHED in over 100 countries 
Awards and Recognition
Two time winner Award for Excellence - Time Inc. Magazines

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