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