Scott mc Kiernan

About Scott mc Kiernan

Father+Husband first and foremost.Visualist looking to make images that need to be seen and tell stories that need be told!Proud Agent/Artist/Curator/Designer/Editor/Educator/Photographer/Photojournalist/Picture Editor/Publisher/TechnologistMedia industry leader. Award winning photographer who as a Web pioneer in ‘92, and technologist of first order, launched the net\'s first database for editorial pictures: ZUMA Press Wire.Mc Kiernan’s dynamic leadership of the ZUMA Press family of companies. as well as decades of wide-ranging experience in photojournalism have proven to be instrumental in establishing one of the largest editorial photo agencies in the world and the first digital age picture agency.Today his agency is the agent to some of the world\'s most respected photojournalists, magazines, newspapers, agencies and wire services and always evolving. Running a global staff which, as an end product, creating and managing daily the world\'s largest editorial archive online.Between Mc Kiernan’s design work, photography as well as picture editing and his roster of stellar photojournalists photography, they have won numerous major awards for picture editing and photography, including Pictures of The Year (POYi), Best of Photojournalism (NPPA’s BOP), Communications Arts, Webby\'s, World Press Awards as well as a few Pulitzers. Lecturing at colleges, teaching photojournalism and multimedia workshops worldwide for among others: The Mountain Workshops, Atlanta Photojournalism Conference, Fotofusion and UCLA.Mc Kiernan speaks numerous languages, a product of growing up in Ibiza, Rio de Janeiro and Paris. Mc Kiernan remains an active shooter today, living for finding and making that one image that can make a true difference.The never tiring entrepreneur has created destinations such zReportage.com and ThePicturesofTheDay.com, ThePicturesofTheWeek.com, ThePicturesofTheMonth.com and ThePicturesofTheYear.com to showcase visual journalism. As well as Picture Magazine of the Year: DOUBLEtruck and the birth of the first pure Photojournalism Only Gallery: The KONA Gallery.For more go to: Agent, Artist, Curator, Database Admin, Designer, Editor, Educator, Photographer, Photojournalist, Picture Editor, Publisher, Visualist, Technologist

Experience

1. Lecturer Speaker

   Palm Beach Photographic Centre

   Jan 1996 — Present

   Speaker at annual FotoFusion even, which is held at the centre on the third week of January each year since 1995. Have presented and been apart of numerous panels of photography industry and best business practices. Also given lectures on my work as a photojournalist, picture editor and agency head.

Education

• Hartford Art School (Rhode Island School of Design : RISD 1975-1977 - audited for HAS credit)

  Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Film/Video and Photographic Arts, Conceptual Art, Performance Art

  1974 — 1977

• American University

  History (Ancient History Major)

  1973 — 1974

Skills

• Web Development
• SEO
• Documentaries
• Social Networking
• Multimedia
• Newspapers
• Marketing Communications
• Teaching
• Fine Art Photography
• Entrepreneurship
• Photos
• Books
• Digital Photography
• Storytelling
• Photojournalism
• Video
• Publications
• Web Design
• Journalism
• Image Editing
• Graphic Design
• Production
• Editing
• Newspaper
• Videography
• Publishing
• Commercial Photography
• Television
• Digital Media
• Photoshop
• Editorial
• New Media
• Blogging
• Documentary
• Portraits
• Video Production
• Mac
• Photo Editing
• Photography
• Lightroom