Look at that, it’s only been a year since my last post!
In all seriousness, it’s been a big year. In the early summer, I landed a dream job, in a field I worked towards in all of graduate school with my presidential/political imagery research, and I still pinch myself every so often that this is now my life. I am serving as a Visual Information Specialist for Senate Photographic Services – in other words, I’m an Official Senate Photographer Who Also Does Video. I’ve spent the last eight-ish months helping to build a new video service and also learning how to be a Senate photographer. I forgot how much there is to learn at a new job!
Here’s where I would normally show you some of my most favorite images and projects I’ve worked on… but since we don’t publish our own work, I can’t put any of that here. But I *can* put some screenshots and links to things that Senate offices have published! So here, have some screenshots.
Senator John Thune published two of my images in a gallery from President Jimmy Carter’s lying-in-state ceremony. What an incredible honor to photograph this moment.
One of my big early video projects was a Veterans’ Day video with Senator Tom Carper before he retired. This was a very involved setup for the interview, lit by my coworker who is excellent at lighting and created exactly the look I wanted. And then I built out the rest of the edit with b-roll, archive photos, and music. As of publishing this post, it still lives here on his Facebook page. Take a watch!
Another video project that got published was a set of b-roll I filmed (on a gimbal! finally!) and provided to Senator Jon Ossoff’s office for editing. They created this little reel-video with my footage, and they used it as one of the first two posts on his new Bluesky account. (The other were the stills from the event.) Simple, yet effective.
I hope to have more published things I can share, but for now, I’ll leave you with this. It’s an honor to serve and bear witness to the history being made every day in the Capitol complex.