Elena Fava Emerson Photojournalist NPPA Member -

e-mail: acvjp2@r.postjobfree.com or : acvjp2@r.postjobfree.com

Websites: www.efexposure.wix.com/efephoto

www.efephoto.com

efephoto.myfreesites.net/

Eclectic, versatile, dedicated, independent and team oriented.

MAIN JOB EXPERIENCES:

Free lance photojournalist Independent Media production professional,

since 2006 - current

Photography Collaboration with NGO Food For Life, Vrindavan, India, 2013.

Part-time journalist interviews for Crazy Cable, Sky TV 869, Sept. 2007-

May 2008,.

Photojournalism teacher, Bottega Immagine school, Milan, 2007, 2008,

2009.

Photography instructor, Officina Fotografica, Milan, fall-winter 2008.

Director . film-maker, producer, musical video NEW YORK NEW YORK, NY, 2007

documentary video DUENDE, 2006

Co-founder, Editor and photojournalist for "After5media" magazine on

line. 2003 - 2005

Staff photojournalist " Half Moon Bay Review" newspaper and the monthly

"Half Moon

Bay Review Magazine" (news, portraits, sport, theater, still

life, photo-editing digital camera) 2003-

2004

Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota, Summer 2000

(spot news, features, portraits, sport,

with 35 mm. camera and color films), Summer 2000

San Francisco Business Times, 2000 ( portraits, 35 mm. camera

and color slides)

Photographer for Prestige-Life touch portrait studio, San Carlos, 1997-

98.

Free-lance photographer for models'portfolio, young actors, theatre, Milan,

Italy, 1991.- 1993

Photographer assistant, darkroom printing, Photo Studio:Bersani, black &

white printer 1992-93

EDUCATION San Francisco State University: Master's degree in Arts in

Humanities - Special project with

photographs: "Native Americans today: an eye on their life", May 2002.

London Fall semester 2000 - photojournalism classes through Syracuse

University for the Alexia Award.

San Francisco State University : Photojournalism courses for professional

journalist requirements: I, II, III, IV, photojournalism, Publication and

design, News-writing, Newspaper Lab I, II, Photojournalist for the

"Golden Gater" SF State newspaper, 1999 - 2000.

City College of San Francisco: Photography classes: adv. studio lighting,

intermediate studio

lighting, color printing, portraiture, mix-media, medium and 4x5 format,

inter. black & white, computer imaging. 1995- 96.

State University of Milan, Italy: PhD in .Humanities - Thesis in History

of political doctrines, 1994.

public Photography school, Milan, Italy, beginning B & W, color

photography and studio lighting.

Institute for business and foreign languages, " Gramsci", Milan, Italy.

WORKSHOPS and courses:

Photography workshop with VII photo group, Kashmir, India, August 2007

Digital filmmaking course at New York Film Academy, New York, February-

March 2007

Documentary digital filmmaking course, at SFSDF,school of digital

filmmaking, Fall 2006, SF,

Workshop for documentary photography with Mary Ellen Mark, Oaxaca, Mexico,

July 2006.

Use of Photoshop, Quark Xpress, Power point, Final Cut Pro.

MAIN Photography Exhibits:

Centro Fotografico BRAVO, Oaxaca, collective of workshop photographers,

with Mary Ellen Mark, Marcela Taboada, published exhibit photo-book,

Mexico 2011

Online exhibit Museum of Women, SF: CA, USA.

http://imow.org/economica/stories/viewStory?storyId=4679,

"Terra: singolare femminile" personal exhibit, Villa Marazzi, Cesano

Boscone,Milano, Italy, April 2009

"Eyes on the world", group exhibit, United Nation building, New York,

March - April 2006. Follows exhibits in Switzerland, Greece, China and

around the world, organized by the Alexia Foundation.

"Faces of caring: Nurses at Work", NYU Kimmel Center, New York, May 2005,

group exhibit.

Highlights

The 52nd Rochester International Film Festival - Short Film Festival

Certificate of Merit for short music video " New York, New York, NY,

April 2009. http://www.rochesterfilmfest.org/ INDIE CAN FILM

FESTIVAL, for short movie "New York New York", Toronto, 4th-5th October

2008. Canada. http://www.indiecanfilmfestival.com/id65.html

contact festivals if not found on line.

AJN (American Journal of Nursing) Award Winner photojournalism

contest "Judges' choice" NY- 2005

ALEXIA Award Winner

photojournalism contest, 2000, NY, USA, photo selected and published on

book: An eye on the word and for United Nation Building Group Exhibit,

March-April 2006. follow exhibits in Switzerland, Greece, China, Japan

organized by Alexia foundation, book about exhibit published by Alexia

foundation.

REFERENCES:

David Gorn, former Half Moon Bay Review Editor, Half Moon Bay, CA: 650-726-

4555 / 415-***-****, acvjp2@r.postjobfree.com, editor at KQED/NPR

Prof. Ken Kobre', Photojournalism at S.F. State University -

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Najib Joe Hakim: Chief photographer SF Business Times -

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