Desiree Riley

Editing large files to a photographers specifications and returning them on a deadline.

• Creative, detail oriented, and versatile photographer, writer/editor, and creative assistant. • Recognized as a driven, focused individual performer, yet committed to continually engaging with and motivating colleagues and team members. • Superior prioritization and project management skills. Outstanding multi-tasker, frequently managing multiple freelance and corporate assignments at once. • Passion and drive for creative process with ability to see projects through from idea to final deliverable stages. Styleschooltv.com – Creative and Social Media Assistant/Inventory Management • Built, managed, and promoted a digital inventory for online style closet, managed social media sites that increased our website readership and base clientele. • Researched and interviewed local designers, covered local fashion events, increasing our local outreach and arts community involvement. NVM Studios – Studio Intern/Assistant • Collaboratively wrote grant that helped fund artist’s “Superwoman” project; a project which highlighted, and promoted artists, venues, collectives, and organizations that promoted female artists. • Prepared digital images from negatives for two international exhibitions while maintaining the studio space, proofreading grant applications, and researching ongoing projects. A Few Drinks and Some Heels and It Will All Look Swell • A year long, photographic documentary project exploring the burlesque community and their lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Exhibited at Czar Bar and Imagine That! KC. • Published in local fashion and arts magazine, Faction Vedros Studios – Studio Intern/Assistant • Assisted with the set up of lighting and props, location scouting, pre-shoot diagnostics, and editing for several commercial shoots while maintaining studio space, packaging and delivering prints to clients and archiving photographic materials.

Independent Photography Documentary Event Photography Brand Developement Portfolio Growth

Maintained all social media, assisted in the gallery with hanging, inventory, dry mounting, and framing.

Built and maintained online style closet database, maintained all social media and inventory, covered all local fashion events, interviewed designers for the blog

Bartender in charge of serving and catering to customers and promoting concerts.