Antonina (Nina) Smith Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Provides creative input and development on current and potential projects across diverse stakeholder groups to ensure alignment on strategy and delivery. Over 200+ projects annually.
• Analyzes brand creative briefs, conducts discovery sessions, strategically identifies necessary resources, and develops comprehensive production proposals.
• Plans logistics and scopes deliverables for complex projects with high ambiguity.
• Specializes in building bespoke brand libraries often directing multiple teams creating content concurrently.
• Oversees daily management of global creative production tasks, proactively addressing challenges.
• Prioritizes multiple evolving creative projects and effectively allocate resources to meet deadlines.

New York, NY

• Collaborated with the Executive Producer to create branded content for events and storytelling worldwide.
• Reviewed client creative briefs, strategically identified necessary resources, and developed comprehensive production proposals.
• Coordinated end-to-end production including project management, budget management, content creation, and asset management.
• Facilitated bid budgets and schedules, assembled crews, arranged travel, created shot lists/call sheets.
• Implemented contracts, negotiated rates, briefed contributors.
• Managed client communication.

New York, NY

• Independent business delivering project management, photo editing, art buying, image research and permissions acquisition.
• Provides on-site photo editing and creative direction during live events, curates and publishes web galleries for social media.
• Manages image research and permissions across multiple titles for publishing companies, disciplines included history, art history, literature, government, business, science. reading and health.
• Brainstorms with authors and editors to visualize concepts and source stock and unique content with a consideration for budgets.
• Secures hard to find content via social media and non-traditional resources. Identifies any clearance restrictions.
• Maintains an ongoing awareness of media industry trends and developments involving rights and permissions issues.

• Edited high-volume submissions from in-house creative production team, media partners and contributors for stock photo agency. Topics include; lifestyle, business, medical, travel, science and sports.
• Evaluated archive to maintain visual relevancy and brand standards.
• Communicated image feedback to contributors, approve final high-resolution files and maintained digital asset management system.
• Designed galleries to present outstanding imagery from collection for internal meetings and displays.

New York, NY

• Managed photography services for the design division of a book publishing company.
• Collaborated with Editorial and Design teams to storyboard visual concepts based on initial manuscript.
• Sourced image research from stock agencies, institutions, and independent vendors.
• Secured rights and clearances and formatted credit information.
• Evaluated high-resolution files and color proofs, supervised retouching and manipulations.
• Tracked budgets and production status, trafficked final images to production.

New York, NY

• Provided support to photography department for educational publisher’s Reading and Science programs.
• Coordinated photo assignments, managed stylists, studio rentals, prop approval and delivery. Provided on set art direction to photographers and designers.
• Participated in concept meetings, initiated image research and collaborated with Design, Editorial and Marketing teams to finalize layouts.
• Negotiated rights and clearances, developed close relationships with stock agencies and artists.
• Ran a high-volume DAM system, updated production status, tracked budgets captured credit information and processed invoices.

Greater Boston Area

• Responsible for all planning for a prestigious architectural photography studio based in Boston.
• Oversaw production of books, magazines articles, advertising campaigns, museums and gallery exhibitions.
• Managed circulation and copyright permissions for a 30,000-image archive.
• Maintained all written and verbal correspondence with clients including architects, curators, publicists, art directors and filmmakers.
• Supported principal photographer during location and studio assignments.
• Operated as second photographer, lighting and set designer.

Greater Boston Area

• Monitored overall operation for an educational photography program. Facilities contain computer lab, black-andwhiteand color gang darkroom, full photographic studio, and advanced alternative process lab.
• Duties included training, scheduling and supervision of student technicians; maintenance, repair, andinventory of equipment.