LUCEO believes in collaboration. We feel it’s more important to offer solutions, rather than just products. To accomplish this, LUCEO actively partners with talented industry leaders who have staked their careers to providing the best in visual services. Our partner organizations work with LUCEO in order to help us bring the right team to your shoot. In essence, we offer our clients the option to enlist our partner’s services for any shoot, creating a team that can expand and contract to the meet their specific needs. Not only does this help us guarantee a consistent, high-quality product, it also allows us to draw from our history of working together The benefit is clear: a seasoned team is more efficient, cost-effective, and goal-oriented.
HOW WE SELECT OUR PARTNERS:
LUCEO selects our partners based on previous working experience with each person. We are particularly drawn to people who are capable of producing original, consistent, and high-quality work. From editorial shoots to fully produced commercial layouts, we have always believed that the final image is only as good as the entire team working to create the stage for its presentation. For this reason, we have teamed up with partner organizations to help provide photo editing services, art direction, web design, audio and multimedia production, and printing services.
MEET OUR PARTNERS:
MIKE DAVIS – Photo Editor
Mike Davis is one of America’s leading picture editors. He helps photographers tell compelling stories. During more than 20 years of experience at National Geographic Magazine, The White House and some of the country’s leading newspapers Mike has worked on scores of projects that required months of considered thought and thousands of images to produce and edit into books, web sites, publications and more. He has twice been named Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year, judged many of the world’s leading photojournalism competitions and lectured at Universities across America. Mike now manages his own business – www.michaelddavis.com – working directly with select photographers.
BRAD HORN – Audio Producer
Brad Horn works for National Public Radio in Washington, DC. His audio pieces have aired on NPR member stations around the country and on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday. He has been the executive producer of several collaborative multimedia projects, most recently the Veterans Listening Project which was done in conjunction with the oral history project, StoryCorps. Along with StoryCorps he has worked with and for a variety of good people including Luceo Images, MediaStorm, and AARP. Brad is a Multimedia Storytelling Master’s candidate at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
DAVID WRIGHT – Master Printer
David Wright is a photographer, printer, and educator based in Maine. He has always learned about the world and himself through photography. From 2006-2008 he worked as John Paul Caponigro’s assistant and printer where he developed his knowledge and passion for printing. He has printed exhibitions for numerous photographers including: John Paul Caponigro, Elizabeth Cecil, Matt Eich, Joyce Tenneson, and Susan Worsham. In January and February 2009 he spent 2 months in northern Uganda photographing for A River Blue, a school providing psychosocial counseling and intense vocational training in topics like tailoring, agriculture, and arts to vulnerable youth. His series “Uganda: A River Blue” was subsequently exhibited at AnastasiaPhoto in New York. Learn about his printing services at www.davidwrightphoto.com/editions.
DEB PANG DAVIS – Art Director, Web Designer
Deb Pang Davis is an art director, web designer and owner of Cococello, a design studio that helps right-brained entrepreneurs make smart decisions about creating a rock solid marketing machine on the web. Deb’s web and print solutions have helped business owners increase bookings, raise prices, open studios, sell more photographs and feel renewed pride in their business. In her former cubicle life, she was an award-winning art director and designer for National Geographic Traveler and luxury travel magazine, and Virtuoso Life. She has also worked for various national newspapers including the Chicago Tribune and Canada’s The Globe and Mail.
MARIA HABIB - Art Director, Graphic Designer
Maria Habib is Director of Design at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art + Design where she also teaches junior and senior level classes. She currently oversees Design Lab, the Corcoran College of Art + Design’s student-run design organization. Her work ranges from exhibition layout and design, to publication design, web design, advertising, identity development, project workflow management, information design, and print collateral. She is currently developing a collective of national and international design related professionals who share expertise and resources to develop stronger solutions for an expanded clientele. Select clients include: AARP, the Art in Embassies program, the Australian Embassy, Bach 2 Rock Music School, St. George Children’s Hospital and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Working with her design staff and students, she has received numerous awards from organizations such as Art Director’s Club, University and Colleges Designers Association, and HOW magazine.
BRIAN DAWSON - Multimedia Producer, After Effects Specialist
Brian Dawson is a visual storyteller. He is interested in the synergies of blending media to create rich narrative experiences. Brian has worked on multimedia pieces for The New York Times, AARP and LOOK3. As a multimedia producer Brian weaves narratives using tools such as Final Cut and Adobe After Effects. He has a broad range of skills that span from working in the field gathering content to transforming raw material into polished multimedia packages. His portfolio can be seen at www.bridawson.com.
INTERESTED IN PARTNERING WITH LUCEO?
Please direct all inquiries to partners@luceoimages.com