Quinn Buggs: Contributing Photo Editor in Los Angeles, CA

Photo shoot production for original magazine content Sole photo editor for Variety 500 2018 print and online editions Pull & negotiate appropriate stock imagery from various stock photo & network agencies for weekly articles Edited and designed layouts of all original content for American-In-Justice.com article pages in collaboration with Rolling Stone discussing America's criminal justice reform inefficiencies and policies Color correcting images Silhouetting images for profile stories Partner with Creative & Photo Director and various senior staff editors on ideas/ direction to properly visually illustrate the articles to the Variety reader Hire and work with illustrators that best matched concepts to deliver my creative brief to fruition Conceptualize creative for photo shoots on feature and cover stories

Created project time lines and tracked complex projects through all stages of creative development Consistently managed and updated project management program to keep the team aware of progress/ updates Negotiated artists' fees and production costs with vendors to meet production budgets Casting, location scouting & on set production Managed each phase of the internal & external approval process including copy, layouts & final proofs Identified inefficiencies in work flow and create solutions to keep all on track to produce final deliverables on time