Steve Behan Email & Phone Number

Clients have included: akg-images News UK (thesun.co.uk) - Using CHP (content hub for publishers), picture requests, comping images Welbeck Publishing Grist Digital Marketing

• Managing the Picture Research Department for Welbeck Publishing covering a variety of subjects such as entertainment, history, reference, wellbeing, children's illustrated books and puzzles
• Handling picture budgets, cost projection, overseeing and authorizing department expenditure, creating budget analysis reports
• Managing a small team internally and freelancers externally
• Image fee negotiation and licensing, understanding current photo licensing and copyright law
• Third party relationship management, strong relationships forged with picture libraries, photographers, specialist archive collections and museums
• Copyright clearance

Maternity cover for the picture desk, music based material for variety of media. Hiring props for shoots, art directing, booking photographers.

Sole responsibility for monthly magazine picture desk in the absence of the Picture Editor.

Specialist science news, technology and nature magazine. Picture research and negotiating reproduction fees and ensuring all photographs are credited.

Responsible for picture research across a broad spectrum of subject matter. Promoted to UK Sales where I picture edited new material suitable for UK syndication.

Edited and selected photographic film and ensured pictures were archived, resized, cropped and captioned. Researched photographs for newspapers, advertising agencies, and book publishers.

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