Paul Palmer November 2011
- Born 1962 (49yr) Nelson New Zealand. Nationality: New Zealand
P.O.Box 251
Picton, 7250
Cell: +64 21 449932 – Home: +64 3 573 7775
Email: paul at palmer.co.nz – Web: www.paulpalmer.co.nz
OVERVIEW:: Goal is to return to fulltime news photography in New Zealand after spending many years overseas in media related areas. I have a driving passion to capture the world around me to reflect our lives and highlight our endearours.
PHOTOGRAPHY/ WORK EXPERENCE::
- Events photographer for Levi Events Ltd 2007- 2011
- Media and VIP photographer for Levi Ski Resort 2007-2011
- Frelance photographer for travel and lifestyle magazines in Finland 2007-2011
- Website consultant, Levi Travel Ltd, Polar Meeting Ltd, and Kittila council.
- Panorama photographer and teacher for various groups 2006 -2011
- NZ Web Solutions, director 1998- 2010
- NZFOTO, owner/ director 1998 to present
- ICON Art Gallery Picton, owner and director 2005-2006
- Sounds Espresso Picton, owner 1998-2000
- Freelance media photographer at Marlborough Express 1998
- Marlborough Express, Photographer/ Chief Photographer 1987-1997
- Pan Pacific Cameras Nelson, Sales manager and photographer 1986-1987
- Neil Burn Photographics Wellington, Store Manager, 1985-1986
- Chief Postmasters Ofice Wellington, Pay Clerk, personal officer, investgation officer, 1980-1985
SKLL SETS::
People: Great inter person skills, can deal with people from all walks of life effectively, with professionalism and obtain striking images from challeging situations.
Willingness to Learn: Just completed a diploma overseas relating to tourism, event planning and new media. Regular speaker or atendant at photographic conferences around the world. Last conference was May/June in Madrid and Portugal with the International Panoramas conference as speaker, orginiser and attendant.
Comunication Skills: A clear communcator, good listener and observer of human behavoiur with a focus on problem solving, even before a problem may occur
Dependability: Relible and hard worker, focuses on giving 110% whereever possible
Team Player: Enjoys working within and helping develop a keen working enviroment and culture. Still keen to push the limits but mellowed enough to respect others views and work together for the common good.
Photographic Equipment: Own and operate both Canon and Nikon digital systems. Able to make the most of minimal equipment to capture images without making waves. Full knowledeg on the maintance, upkeep and protection of digital assets.
Computer skills:Have been involved with computers since the days before windows, highly skilled with the Adobe Creative Suite, espically Photoshop and Lightroom.
Good understanding of HTML and web development tools. Have a keen interest in video and some post production work. Have worked has a photographer and web developer since 1998, on of the first in Marlborough.
Storytelling/research skills: Keenly research and analysis the current situations. Media has been my passion for many years. Like to keep an eye on world events, how they effect the local situation and look for fresh angles to illustrate a good story.
EDUCATION::
Diploma in Tourism Services, Levi Instutti, Lapland Finland 2009-2011
This was a 4 year course taught mainly in finnish. I managed to complete this in just over 2 years along with being a treacher aid with the IT and Event Planning sessions
6th form cert – Marlborough Boys College 1975 – 1979
KEY PROJECTS AND HIGHLIGHTS:
Offical photographer for the Levi Ski Resort, Levi Events and Levi Travel, all based 150km above the arctic circle in Lapland Finland.
Personal Profile
Born in Nelson, educated in Nelson and Marlborough. Eldest of three boys, all have travelled but over time returned to Marlborough.
Widely travelled and open to new ideas and ways. Enjoy being back in Marlborough with wife Sirpa Alalaakkola, World reknown artist, Zack ( 13yr) whose passions are computer graphics and music that starts college in 2012, Zara ( 11yr) our social butterfly, budding artist and also keen on music.
The family highlights were having spent a few years travelling over 140000km around europe in a campervan seeing, living and capturing the history around us.
All happy to have seen the world, experenced so many cultures and now settled back in Marlborough.
IMAGE PORTFOLIO:
Will email you a link to an online gallery of recent published work tomorrow. In the meantime you could google * Paul Palmer Panoroma* to see some highlights