Experience

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  Alan Howell Photography, www.alanhowellphoto.com

  • Mid-South Region, USA

  • Photographer/Owner

    • Aug 2015 - Present
    • Mid-South Region, USA

    I have completed photography work for Mathon and Associates Marketing out of Atlanta, Georgia, Memphis University School (MUS), Baptist Memorial Health Care, Baptist Medical Group, Methodist LeBonheur, LEO Events, Herbi-Systems, Watkins Communications, Memphis News, Meritan, Dr. Joe Levy, Susan Adler Thorp Communications, Nahon Saharovich & Trotz Attorneys, Harkavy Shainberg Kaplan & Dunstan PLC, and Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County. I also photographed Father Jonathan Morris for Catholic Charities, Diocese of Jackson (Mississippi).

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  Memphis Business Journal

  • Memphis and the Mid South

  • Staff Photographer

    • Jun 1988 - Aug 2015
    • Memphis and the Mid South

    I was the sole award winning Staff Photographer of the Memphis Business Journal for over 27 years. I started with the local ownership of Ward Archer Sr. and Barney and Debbie Dubois and transitioned through the ownership change in 1997 to American City Business Journals based in Charlotte, North Carolina. At one point I was shooting for three publications put out by MidSouth Communications; Memphis Business Journal, Memphis Health Care News and the Active Times (under the direction of Lester Gingold and currently known as The Best Times). I photographed the top CEOs, company officers, entrepreneurs, business owners, and medical professionals of Memphis and the MidSouth region. My sphere of photo assignment coverage went as far as Jonesboro and Blytheville, Arkansas, Jackson and Dyersburg, Tennessee, and Tupelo to Oxford to Greenville in Mississippi. I covered business news and Social/Societal business reporting by the late Edwin Howard and Linda Romine; the largest being the Wonders Series. I am also one of the last photographers to photograph St. Jude founder and legendary entertainer Danny Thomas before his passing the next morning. I also had the privilege of being one of only three photographers allowed to photograph Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley visiting a child at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. I had the opportunity to collaborate with and receive photo requests from the BBC and HLN Television Networks. I won numerous state and national press photography awards which included several Tennessee Press Association awards. From the early days of bulk loading, processing and printing film, and shooting halftones for production on a large process camera, I transitioned to all digital photography.My tenure at Memphis Business Journal ended in August of 2015. I met and photographed many good people while at the forefront of representing Memphis Business Journal for those 27 years and I miss the interaction I had with them even today.

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  Allen Corporation of America

  • Little Rock Air Force Base

  • Staff Photographer

    • Sep 1987 - Jun 1988
    • Little Rock Air Force Base

    I was a Staff Photographer for Allen Corporation of America ( at the time a division of Singer Aircrew Training Systems) working on the C-130 Hercules Aircrew Training System (a United States and global military tactical transport aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin) at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas. I worked closely with Air Force personnel and aircraft out in the field to provide photography to staff artists and SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) for training and lesson production for the C-130 Aircrew Training System under the stipulations of a United States Defense Department contract for training development. I left Allen Corporation of America in June of 1988 to accept the Staff Photographer's position at Memphis Business Journal.

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  Howell Photographic

  • Clarksdale, Mississippi

  • Owner

    • Jun 1985 - Sep 1987
    • Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Owner/Operator of my consumer film processing lab and photography studio. During this time period I contributed news photos to the Clarksdale Press Register, The Clarion Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi), the Associated Press and nationally distributed Women's World magazine. I also conducted part time dark room processing and printing work for nationally distributed Farm Press Publications which included Delta Farm Press, Southwest Farm Press and the California-Arizona Farm Press.

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  B&B Photo

  • Clarksdale, Mississippi

  • Manager

    • Jul 1984 - Jun 1985
    • Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Managed and Operated this small consumer film processing lab and photography supplies shop. During this time I offered freelance photography services and contributed news photos to the Clarksdale Press Register.