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Dan Wessell

Founder/Executive Director at Cameras for Kids
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Photographer and educator with expertise in community outreach and non-profit management.
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Location
Mount Prospect, Illinois, United States, US
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Spanish Limited working proficiency
Skills
  • Photoshop
  • Social Media
  • Editing
  • Photography
  • Image Editing
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Dan Wessell is a seasoned photographer and educator with 11 years of experience in teaching photography to marginalized communities. He has a strong background in graphic design, editing, and community outreach, with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College of Chicago. Wessell has founded and led non-profit organizations, including Cameras for Kids, which aims to provide free photography programming to underprivileged youth. Dan has also worked as a photographer/layout/prepress at The Journal & Topics Newspapers, where he developed a range of skills including photographing assignments, half-toning, and graphic designing advertisements.

Experience

  • Cameras for Kids
    • Chicago, IL
    • Founder/Executive Director
      • May 2013 - Present
      • Chicago, IL

      Cameras for Kids is an organization I started to teach photography to children living in marginalized communities. We organize and facilitate free photography programming to children living in marginalized communities. We just wrapped up our first international program in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. There we taught blind/visually impaired youth (ages 8-16) photography. This summer we will be holding our 4th annual workshop in Kyle, South Dakota (Pine Ridge Indian Reservation), Sioux Nation.

  • The Journal & Topics Newspapers
    • 622 Graceland Ave., Des Plaines, IL, 60016
    • Photographer/Layout/PrePress
      • Mar 2004 - Aug 2016
      • 622 Graceland Ave., Des Plaines, IL, 60016

      Photographing assignments, half toning photographs, archiving work, writing cutlines, laying out pages, printing/preparing plates for press, assisting the pressman in a variety of ways, jogging, driving forklift, selling advertisement, graphic designing advertisements, and much, much more. I've done nearly anything you can do at the company short of written reporting and accounting.

Education

  • 2011 - 2014
    Columbia College of Chicago
    Bachelor of Arts (BA), Photography
  • 2003 - 2007
    Propsect High School
    High School Diploma, Photography

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