Keri Pruett Email & Phone Number

- Create bookazines & hard-cover books for unbranded & branded outlets such as Oprah, Car and Driver & Men’s Health.- Manage & negotiate the art budget within each project.

- Produce international/national books & magazines on diverse subject matter including celebrity, fashion/beauty, health/wellness, government, science, history, recipes & home/living.- Maintain & negotiate art licensing & budgets for all photographic assets within a project.

- Acted as the main point of contact between the business & the photo studio vendor for all e-commerce photography, including the connection to data & technology, sample-tracking product for on-figure & flat-lay photoshoots while communicating specific needs to the Creative teams to ensure important details are captured on set & that brand requirements are met.- Managed both production & post-production contractually agreed-upon timelines, budgets & SLAs.- Facilitated & supported the creation, tracking & storage of digital photography assets produced by the external photo studio to assure website timelines were met.- Collaborated with cross-functional partners across Planning, Merchandising, Digital & Creative to ensure hitting product launch dates.- Confirmed all invoices for models, photo shoot production & post-production were accurate.- Provided end-to-end project-management of one-off special requests for every floorset.

Englewood Cliffs, Nj

- Negotiated acquisition fees & usage rights with agencies & independent photographers.- Visualized collaboratively with the Art & Editorial Departments on creative concepts for stories.

Greater New York City Area

- Oversaw photo-shoot production from conception to completion on celebrity, fashion/beauty, fitness,still life & food categories, including on-set art direction & the handling of post-production schedules.- Hired & negotiated rates for photographers, makeup artists, stylists (hair, wardrobe, prop) & caterers.- Created call sheets, contractor agreements, editorial calendars & shot lists as well as acquired appropriate permits, insurance & estimates in advance of photo shoots.- Partnered with the Video team on the production of shoots.- Developed online galleries for Usmagazine.com using a Content Management System (CMS) to optimize photos & Adobe Photoshop to enhance them.

Greater New York City Area

- Pitched Editors ideas based on global photo research to create dynamic stories in nationally published bookazines.- Acquired & purchased imagery throughout the world using unconventional means in order to gather original & never-before-published photos.

Greater New York City Area

- Collaborated with Creative teams to conceptualize weekly stories in a fast-paced, news-driven environment.- Managed photo licensing rights & usage terms, including social media.- Hired prop stylists for in-house still-life shoots.- Delivered watchspaces & input metadata into the Digital Asset Management system (DAM) for archival purposes.

Boca Raton, Florida

- Drafted advertisement mockups for small businesses to be published in a regional, start-up magazine.- Determined that all imagery, copy & design elements were accurate before going to press.- Researched & obtained stock photography when needed.

Photography

Fashion Merchandising

General Studies