TAMMY A. LECHNER

PO BOX 330 - Laguna Beach, CA - 92652

office: (949) 494-1612

pager: (949) 248-6153

e-mail: tal@stillpro.com

EXPERIENCE:

STILL Productions, Inc: partner/co-director

May '94 to present --
A full-service communications company with emphasis on the presentation/publication of story-telling projects in a variety of formats for both editorial and corporate clients.
Current projects include the following:
*Distribution and marketing of "IN THE CAL: Pastime Goes Primetime In California's Minor League," an award-winning photodocumentary book and gallery exhibit on the lifestyle and atmosphere of minor league baseball. (authored design, text and photography; produced and published by STILL Productions/June, 1994)
* Production of "IF IT TAKES FOREVER: A Cubs Fan's Journey Through Baseball's Greatest Romance," a photodocumentary book in progress toward publication. (author of text, photography; produced by STILL Productions/2001)

Freedom Communications, Inc: contract photo editor

June '99 to Mar'04
Part-time contract position with OCR Magazines (a division of Freedom Communications; in association with the Orange County Register). As magazine photo editor produced a six-month/six-issue series on Orange County, CA for the Millennium (June, '99 to Jan, 00). Continued on with OCR as photo editor to help launch two new magazines June, 2000 -- March, 2004 Orange County HOME, and Golf Extra.

Los Angeles Times: staff photographer & photo editor

Oct. '87 to June '94 -- Management job included weekend department supervisory duties, photo editing and coordination of the photo internship program through 1992. (Represented photography department in all weekend editorial meetings.) Shooting job involved a combination of news, feature, sports assignments often with extensive travel. Occasionally wrote text to accompany photographs.

Courier-Journal/Louisville Times: staff photographer

Sept. '84 to Sept. '87 -- Photography rotation between daily staff and neighborhoods staff (zoned editions) every six months. Performance consisted of daily assignments, picture pages regularly, special projects and random picture desk duty. Routinely wrote text to accompany packages, pages and projects.

Jackson (Mich) Citizen Patriot: staff photographer

Nov. '81 to Sept. '84 -- Performance consisted of daily assignments, picture pages regularly, special projects and weekend picture desk duty. Routinely wrote text to accompany picture packages, pages and projects. Routinely did page design for daily and Sunday feature pages. Worked one day per week as the assignment editor for graphics and photography for the "Living Today" feature section.

Glenwood Post (Colo): staff photographer/photo dept. mngr

Jan. '81 to Nov. '81 -- Performance consisted of fulfilling the obligations of a one-person photo department. Daily assignments were 80 percent self-generated. Responsible for photography, writing and design of weekly photo page and routinely contributed lengthy feature writing. Exclusively responsible for picture usage and play. Worked with news editor each day on layout of page one and local pages. Also responsible for upkeep of photo lab and photo-related equipment.

Columbia Missourian: photo intern

May '80 to Sept '80 --
One of four University of Missouri students chosen to shoot for Missourian summer staff and double as teaching assistants for basic photography students in the Missouri photojournalism sequence. Performance consisted of daily assignments for newspaper publication.

Hunter (NY) Scene: reporting intern

May '77 to Sept '77 --
Feature writer for Catskill Mountain weekly. Self-generated ideas.

EDUCATION:

University of Missouri/Bachelor of Journalism/Dec. '80
*Dual-sequence major in magazine writing/design and photojournalism
*Graduated with "top-of-class" honors (GPA)

GENERAL BACKGROUND:

Born June 16, 1958 in Saugerties, New York -- Hudson River Valley town of 12,000 at the base of the Catskill Mountains National Park, 100 miles north of New York City

National Press Photographers Association member since 1980
Secretary of Kentucky Press Photographer's Association 1985-86
Honoree lifetime patron of National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY

PROFESSIONAL HONORS:

1999: Award of Excellence in photo editing; NPPA "Pictures Of The Year" competition. o (Awarded to Orange County Register photo editing staff)

1993-1996 National Press Photographer's Association Newspaper Clip Contest/ "national" second place, "The Grassroots Game," multiple-page layout on minor league baseball
oNominated by the LA Times, entered in '94 Pulitzer Prizes
oPublished in 1994 as a 116-page photodocumentary book
oExhibited as a 30-print gallery/museum show

1991: Society of Newspaper Design, Award of Excellence, "Growing Up In LA"
*Nominated by the LA Times and entered in '92 Pulitzer Prizes

1989: California Pictures of the Year, Award of Excellence, photodocumentary, "The Grassroots Game" (project documented the lifestyle of A-level minor league baseball)

1986: Kentucky Photographer of the Year, runner-up, portfolio
(plus five single-entry placing awards, Kentucky News Photographer's Assoc)

1985: Kentucky Photographer of the year, first place, portfolio
(plus four single-entry placing awards, Kentucky News Photographer's Assoc)

1984: Recipient of "The Michigan Understanding Award" for most outstanding documentary (writing and photography) by a Michigan journalist. Project documented in a 14-page special section on the migration of Goodyear factory workers and their families.
*This project also received a first place feature writing award for all-circulation newspapers in Michigan from United Press International and a third place feature writing award for all-circulation newspapers in Michigan from Associated Press.
*This project was nominated by the Jackson Citizen-Patriot and entered in two categories of '84 Pulitzer Prizes, feature writing and photography

Michigan Photographer of the Year, third place, portfolio.
Four single-entry placing awards, Michigan Press Photographer's Association)

Region Four Photographer of the Year, third place (NPPA's monthly clips)
(Consists of a four-state region, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio)

1983: Michigan Photographer of the Year, third place, portfolio
(plus three single-entry placing awards, Michigan Press Photographer's Assoc)
1982: Michigan Associated Press, two single-entry placing awards
Michigan Press Photographer's Association, one single-entry placing award

1981: Best Use of Photographs by a Newspaper (all circ) Colorado Press Assoc
Best Photo of the Year (all circ) Colorado Press Association
First place, spot news award, Colorado Press Association
Second place, multiple-picture usage for single-page, Inland Press Assoc.

1980: Award of Excellence, portraiture, Inland Press Association.

REFERENCES:

Cindy Hively, Los Angeles Times, features photo editor
130 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90053 (213) 237-7020

Bill Luster, Courier-Journal (Louisville), Director Of Photography
& National Geographic contract photographer
500 E. Broadway, Louisville, KY (502) 582-4604

Sandra Petykiewicz, Jackson Citizen-Patriot, Publisher
214 S. Jackson St., Jackson, Mich. 49204 (517) 787-2300

Angus McDougall, former director of photojournalism/University of Missouri
3001 Crawford St., Columbia, Mo 65201 (314) 443-5378

Adrienne Helitzer, president/partner, STILL Productions, INC
1150 Noria St., Laguna Beach, CA 92652 (949) 494-1612

Melvin Helitzer, president, University Sports Press, INC.,
Ohio University Professor of Journalism
2 Orchard Ln., Athens, OH 45701 (740) 593-3066