Posts by KATHERINE RASMUSSEN
EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY Company Events at Two Chicago Venues The GigsThis company’s corporate events were the bookends to my pandemic lockdown experience. In late 2019 I photographed their holiday party at 1959 Kitchen & Bar inside The Second City. It was the last big gig I did before the world went into lockdown. Then in the […]
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY Christmas Theme The Occasion I adore photographing these two! I met them in 2016 when I was hired to shoot little G’s 3rd birthday party. Since then, we’ve made it a tradition to get together to take their holiday card photos. ApproachThese were studio style shoots with lights and props like presents, a […]
PHOTOGRAPHY China Friends Teacher Portraits & Student Candids The Assignment Take similarly-styled professional portraits of staff for website. Take candid shots of teachers and students interacting in classroom. ApproachOver the course of two days I visited the school to photograph the students and teachers engaged in their activities. While there, I set up my white […]
COOKBOOK PHOTOGRAPHY The Indian Slow Cooker Second Edition The AssignmentUpdate cover photo and several interior shots for Cookbook Author Anupy Singla’s book The Indian Slow Cooker, Second Edition. Order Book ApproachAnupy’s publisher, Agate Publishing, provided a mock layout which we used to guide our photographic composition. We left blank space where we knew text would […]
GRAPHIC DESIGN Diabetes Empowerment Education Program The AssignmentThrough the Diabetes Empowerment Education Program (DEEP), University of Illinois at Chicago’s Midwest Latino Health Research, Training and Policy Center trains community health workers to help diabetics self-manage their illness. The program entails in-person training sessions as well as access to an education curriculum with matching PowerPoint slides. […]
FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY & MARKETING Local Foods Holiday Campaign The AssignmentTake photos of Thanksgiving and Christmas product offerings for online store, create branded in-store signage and bagging flyers, develop and implement an e-mail marketing and social networking strategy. ApproachTo account for the photos I needed for the online store, I made a list of products and […]
EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY Garden Wedding The Occasion Weddings aren’t normally in my repertoire, but this couple was planning something right up my alley. They were hosting an intimate gathering of friends and family in a relative’s beautiful backyard garden. They were referred to me by their friend, a baker whom I had worked with through another […]
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY First Birthday The ShootBaby E was turning one and his parents wanted some portraits taken to mark the occasion. They opted for professional photos because they planned on enlarging and printing some for a display at his birthday party the following weekend. ApproachBaby E was born in the summer, so I suggested Chicago […]
MARKETING My Time as PR & Marketing Coordinator at Capital Roots The Nonprofit My passion for food, community and gardening/farming is, in part, due to my experience working for Capital Roots, a nonprofit in upstate New York. Capital Roots reduces the impact of poor nutrition on public health by organizing community gardens, providing healthy food […]
THESIS WRITING & PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY Field Research in Peru The AssignmentIn summer, 2007 I attended a research program at The Center for Social Well Being – a field school located 440 km north of Lima in Carhuaz, Peru. I used the Participatory Action Research (PAR) method to conduct group and independent research relating to the […]