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The Photography Assistant will be responsible for assisting in day-to-day photographic operations, administration, and imaging needs for the Photography Department across all brands under the AMB Sports + Entertainment umbrella, with their focus on Atlanta United and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In this position the candidate will play a key role in assisting to shape and organize the visual storytelling across the businesses while assisting with maintaining our digital asset library.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Assisting in day-to-day photo administration and operations
- Serve as an assistant to the photographers on select photo shoots
- Assisting Digital Asset Manager and Team Photographers with daily maintenance of the Digital Asset Management System (DAM); including tagging metadata, archiving, creating portals, spotlight searches and collections
- Coordinating delivery of images for internal and external partners
- Assist with coordinating freelance photographers as needed
- Photographing corporate events, community events and team events as needed
- Assisting Team photographers with team operations and imaging needs
- Research best practices in photography across professional sports teams
- Serve as a dedicated matchday photographer for the Atlanta United 2’s
- Assisting the Creative and Digital teams as needed
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Commitment to a 30-hour work week with availability to work irregular hours, including nights and weekends
- Recent college graduate in Photography, Photojournalism, Visual Communication, or related field
- Possess a high level of interest in working in a fast-paced, sports-centered environment
- Must have at least 1-2 years of related work or volunteer experience
- Must be able to show a portfolio of work that outlines an understanding of visual storytelling, ability to work with natural and studio lighting, and knowledge of image post processing and editing
Required Skills
- Demonstrated experience with still photography and post processing skills
- Understanding of sports action, lifestyle and portrait photography
- Experience with Adobe Lightroom, Photo Mechanic, Photoshop and Mac operating systems
- Knowledge of DSLR and mirrorless camera systems
- Knowledge of metadata and how it effects the user experience when searching for an asset
- Ability to work with both ambient and studio lighting including familiarity with various light modifiers
- Possess excellent organizational, interpersonal and customer service skills
- Maintain exceptional written and oral communication skills with ability to communicate to all levels
- Attention to detail and ability to focus on one task for an extended period of time
- Demonstrate maturity and professionalism
- DAM experience preferred
- Understanding of NFL and MLS preferred
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