Our industry partner is mostly a self- taught photographer raised in the south Suburbs of Chicago, with a history of taking some photography classes in high school and college, along with lots of workshops held by well known professionals. She has been active in photography for well over 20 years and in entertainment for about 15+ years. In college her love of teaching environmental education and
working with children and adults with special needs took her in another job direction, photography always remains a great passion. While pursuing formal education and working in another field, she continued doing photography for freelance work such as events, music commercial and other. Our industry partner tries to keep the distraction of the technical tinkering to a minimum instead focusing on the subject and the scenery or back drop, preferring to lead rather then pose a person or persons. She likes the natural candid feel she can get out of people or children. Her background in photography is in a variety of area such as music, events nature, sports, travel, photojournalism and children’s photography. In College is where music photography took hold and our industry partner would photograph the annual Northland College Folk Festival and other artists that would play Northland College. In recent years her love of photography along with music has expanded her into an Entertainment and Events Company call B.A.S Entertainment. B.A.S Entertainment does photography for local, regional and nation talent for their websites and promotional photos, along with events and stock photography. We also do photography for print and web based media. Our industry partner has experience working with record labels both indie and national. Our industry partner has had many photos published in magazines both print and web, along many websites. Our industry partner also has a photo hanging in a prestigious building in Boston. Another entity of B.A.S is booking talent for local, regional and national events and shows along with some public relations. We also work with a lot of other talent buyers and managers to help artists gain more excess to booking. BAS Entertainment/ Photography have done many festivals featuring national act, clubs concerts and other events. Our industry partner prides themselves on being a social conscious company, helping non-for- profit organizations that need photography for an events.
