Ric Kallaher

Photographer

About

Ric Kallaher is a multi-disciplined visual artist. His commercial specialties are portrait (studio + environmental) & event photography of Events & People in Advertising, Media, Arts, Culture, & Business. His artistic output is engaged with landscape photography, and mixed media art+sculpture. He lives/works in New York City, Montauk, and Lisbon Portugal. Commercial strengths are creative direction, technical knowledge and decades of experience across a broad range of venues; coordinating w/marketing & PR teams; and bringing added values that push the message to benefit a client's SEO via his social media outreach skills. Ric has been the photographer of record for all of the top advertising awards shows, like AICP @ MoMA, the AMP Awards; EFFIE Awards, The Art Directors Club, & The Advertising Club. He has provided corporate & marketing portraiture for the Cable Telecommunications Assoc for Marketing; Wicks Publishing Group; AARP Media; & Smartstream Technologies. He has photographed separate cover stories on Fox News' Roger Ailes & Sean Hannity + a feature on Pres Bill Clinton. He has provided principal event photography for New York's prestigious Museum of Arts & Design. He has been entrusted to be the sole photographer for exclusive society events such as private parties at New York's Four Seasons Restaurant with guests George Clooney, Ellen Barkin, Cindy Crawford & other elite celebrities. He has documented New York's cultural institution Symphony Space's events w/studio portraits of Philip Glass, E. L. Doctorow, John Updike, Richard Ford, Joyce Carol Oates, & others. He has donated his photographic talents to FLASHES OF HOPE, a nonprofit org that changes the way children with cancer see themselves through photography. Earlier, Ric had a long and successful career in music for advertising owning his own company and personally creating music scores for Mercedes-Benz, Ikea, AT&T and the like. He also is an established voice over artist, rep'd by Ann Wright Reps.

Country

United States

City

Montauk

Industry

Photography

Skill

Photography, Advertising, Blogging, Storytelling, Casting, Documentaries, Theatre, Commercials, Entertainment, Video, Television, Music, Sound, Film Production, Post Production, Video Production, Voice Over, Acting, Art, Creative Direction

Experience

Photographer

Ric Kallaher Photography

1999 - Present · 27 yrs

Photo Direction; Event Photography; Portrait Photography; Retouching; Editing; Creative Direction

Voice

The Wave Band, Inc.

1986 - Present · 40 yrs

Ric Kallaher has been providing voice overs since 1986. In 2014, Ric was the voice of the Charter School Movement in New York State for Siegel Strategies. In the Fall of '13, Ric was chosen to tell the story of Paul Sperry and the invention of the famous Sperry Topsider. In 2012 & 2013 he was the voice for Mylan Pharmaceutical as well as Maaco Paint & Body Shops. For 2010-11, he was the voice for the SuperValu chain of grocery stores which includes Shaw's in New England and Albertson's in California with an ad campaign from Consequence Creative & FAME Retail in Minneapolis. Additionally, he has been the voice for Texaco Havoline, Kendall Motor Oil, Campbell's Soup & an array of major national advertisers in the U.S. as well as for TNT's movies on the Star Network in Hong Kong. His is represented by Ann Wright Representatives.

Composer

Uptown Music Hong Kong

1996 - 1997 · 1 yr

Composed original music for clients such as Audi, etc. in Hong Kong

Principal

North Forty Music & The Wave Band, Inc.

1986 - 1996 · 10 yrs

Creative Director, Producer & Composer

Creative Director / Composer / Executive Producer

The Wave Band, Inc. and North Forty Music

1985 - 1996 · 11 yrs

• Conceived, composed & produced original music for advertising commercials as well as documentary films. • Ric wrote the original music for "Movers" the first Ikea commercial in the US, part of a campaign produced by Donny Deutsch; • Worked with renowned editor Hank Corwin to create the music for the introduction for the Mercedes S class and award-winning commercials for Raytheon and others. • He composed several tracks for DDB/Chicago and Budweiser. • He worked with Chiat/Day to produce music for Reebok by Laurie Anderson; • Produced music with DMB&B in Nashville with Hank Williams, Jr., & in Memphis with the Bar-Kays. • Independently in '96, he composed & produced music for the commercially released film version of HBO's "Real Sex" for Patti Kaplan & Sheila Nevins