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CURRICULUM VITAE
Brad Puet

CONTACT
Website: www.townsnaps.com
Email: brad@townsnaps.com
PH: 206-779-3997

I am here to help create entertaining, educational, and more importantly inspiring content, changing the digital landscape and getting brands to champion and collaborate with creative storytellers and innovators that will turn audiences into ambassadors! I work and play well with others!

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Visionary leader known for my ability to garner loyal and lasting community support and partnerships, ability to grow organizational visibility, and create powerful environments where the secret-sauce magic happens; 
  • Social media influencer with proven experience organically building a personal brand (specifically on Instagram), an audience (100K+), fostering social communities, creating social chatter, and staying ahead of the curve on new technological trends specifc to the digital and mobile landscape; and
  • Internationally recognized for visual storytelling, brand engagement, and creative out of the box social media strategies within the mobile space specifically with smart phone cameras and its accessories; oh and by the way, I know a little bit about analytics.

EMPLOYMENT

  • 2014 Contributor Huffington Post – Art & Culture
  • 2014 Contributing Expert About.com/Technology
  • 2011 to present, Seattle Central Community College, Continuing Education and Non-Credit, Photography Educator.
  • 2011 Co-Founder, Grryo formerly We Are Juxt, international mobile/social photography collective and website
  • 2011 Co-Founder, Instagramers Seattle (@igers_seattle) regional community of mobile photographers 
  • 2009 to present, Freelance Photographer

CLIENTS:
The Michael Bennet Foundation, Seattle Seahawks, MTV, DPReview, DPReview Connect, Washington Post, Instaphotographers, Photo Magazine, VICE magazine, Architectural Digest, Slate magazine, The Guardian UK, International Examiner, Bellevue Arts Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Olsun Kundig Architects, AddThree, and Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Tour, Kevin Hart, Travel Portland, and Twitter to name a few

SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS:
NPR, Adult Swim/ Robot Chicken, Amazon, Expedia's Trover, DXO, Carl Zeiss Lens, University of Washington – Athletics Program, Seattle Seahawks, LeMay Auto Museum, MTV-VMA, CNNiReport, Washington Post, VICE, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, New Belgium, Snow Day Seattle, Bellevue Arts Museum, HTC, Amazon, Microsoft, and Nokia to name a few

SELECTED AWARDS / GRANTS

  • 2016 One of Seattle's Most Notable Instagram Photographers, Seattle Magazine August Issue
  • 2013 Winner Mobile Love Award, Berlin, Germany
  • 2012 Recipient of Department of Culture and Arts, City of Seattle “All Art Forms – Development” grant
  • 2011 International Photography Awards -­‐ Deeper Perspective Nominee. New York, USA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

  • "HTC: Power of 10" New York City, April 2016
  • “Art meets Technology x SXSW” Austin, Texas, March 2014
  • “Art Meets Technology” Artifact, New York, NY, March 2014
  • “Joint” Department of Transportation, Tijuana Mexico, June 2013
  • “Arteinsieme: Cultura Senza Barriere” Museo Pietraia, San Ben de Toro, Italy April 2013
  • “The Darkroom Series V2.0″ Zeitgeist Coffee, Seattle, January 2013
  • "The 24 Hour Project" Los Angeles, California Space Gallery, June 2013
  • “Dreams Without Borders” Fundraiser, LARVA, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, December 2012
  • “Mobile Photo Paris” Bastille Design Center, November 2012
  • Seattle Interactive Conference: SIC Lounge, Washington Convention Center, Seattle, October 2012
  • “Summer Vibes in Seattle” The Neptune, August 2012
  • “Be Mobile” Fundraiser, Food Lifeline x OKA x Juxt, Storefront OKA, Seattle, July 2012
  • “M Love ConFest” Castle, Berlin, Germany June 2012
  • “Autography” Mobile Photography Show, Diva Espresso, Seattle, June 2012
  • “Life-like” Cambia, Padova Italy, February 2012
  • “High without Walls” Artifact, New York, NY May 2012
  • “The Darkroom Series 1.0″ Zeitgeist Coffee, Seattle, January 2012

PUBLIC SPEAKING:

  • Seattle Interactive Conference, "Best Practices for Effective Visual Storytelling" Seattle, Washington 2016
  • DPReview's PIX2015 "Connected Photography: Why You Should Care" Seattle, Washington 2015
  • HTC Annual Staff/ Team Meeting, Seattle, WA 2015
  • Microsoft Shareholders Meeting, "Why Mobile Photography is Important for Everyone: Nokia Lumia" Redmond, Washington 2014 
  • The 24 Hour Project NPR-KPCC Panel Pasadena, California 2013
  • Guest Mobile Photographer Lecturer for Photo Center NW, April/May 2011
  • Bumbershoot, “Old Art, New Technology” panel, September 2010

*Previous work prior to 2010 available upon request