SAM
Media
StaffPhotographer&Videographer
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“Staff Photographer & Videographer at SAM. Skills: photography, videography, video editing, image editing. The Staff Photographer & Videographer will capture and edit photography and video content for the museum, covering events, exhibitions, collections, and community initiatives. This role involves collaborating with the Creative Studio, managing digital assets in Canto, and ensuring all visual content adheres to brand standards and metadata requirements.”
What You'll Achieve.
Capture and deliver high-quality visual assets that market and promote the museum, ensuring efficient and appropriate access through standardized metadata and filing conventions.
Industry & Context.
Must be able to interact with visitors and event attendees to ensure individuals captured sign image release forms. Oversee and maintain equipment, including cameras, lenses, lighting, video equipment, and external disk drives.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Required Qualifications.
What You'll Do.
The Staff Photographer & Videographer will capture and edit photography and video content for the museum
and community initiatives. This role involves collaborating with the Creative Studio
managing digital assets in Canto
and ensuring all visual content adheres to brand standards and metadata requirements.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with the Creative Studio and cross-functional stakeholders to plan and execute photo and video capture, ensuring alignment on approach, details, and access.
Communication Scope
image release forms
Full Job Description
## Description ABOUT THE ROLE The Staff Photographer & Videographer will capture and tell visual stories about the museum, collection, artists, exhibitions, events, institutional initiatives, and our community across all sites. ABOUT SAM As SAM heads into its second century, we are boldly reimagining what we can and should be. Our goal is to be a model for the future of museums - a bold, dynamic hub of creativity, belonging, and cultural leadership, shaping the future of art and community. Embracing new ways of engaging communities and seeking innovative partnerships - all while keeping art and community at the center of what we do. This ambitious effort represents a transformative shift and radically redefining how art museums operate. This is a pivotal moment for SAM, and we are seeking great talent to join us on our journey. Working at SAM is not just a job—it's a chance to be part of a vibrant, creative community. RESPONSIBILITIES Capture photography and video of SAM events, programs, galleries, people, partners, and other museum happenings to market and promote the museum Collaborate with the Creative Studio to brainstorm and plan upcoming opportunities to capture photos and video across SAM locations, in the galleries during exhibitions and events, and to document special projects, shop product, staff, new initiatives, and more Edit and retouch images and footage using Adobe Creative Cloud Upload assets to the digital asset management system (Canto) using standardized metadata, keywords, and tags for efficient and appropriate access by colleagues Organize files according to established filing conventions Ensure that photography, video, and visual assets follow brand and image standards Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to determine approach, details, times, location access, and subject availability Interact with visitors and event attendees to ensure individuals captured sign image release forms Oversee and maintain equipment, includ
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