Paula Gillen, Photo Researcher and Book Design, Boulder, CO.

Photo Research

Paula is skilled at locating and licensing a wide variety of images, from the most obscure to the very famous, in an efficient manner at affordable prices.  

  • Client: Headwaters Magazine Summer 2017Project Details: Locate photo for cover story about data gathering pertaining to water issues and farming in Colorado. Image Details: Agribotix FarmLens™ System Drones capture near-infrared sensor readings over fields in Colorado’s Eastern Plains. Courtesy Agribotix/background image © Google, 2016Photo Editor: Paula Gillen
  • Client: Headwaters Magazine Summer 2017Project Details: Locate image to illustrate article on Water Management in Colorado. Image Details: Photo left: PRECISIONHAWK; Photo right: Photo Paula Gillen
  • Client: Headwaters Magazine Summer 2017. Project Details: Photograph Jason Smith, water commissioner for District 7 of the South Platte Basin, on location during a normal day. Photo Editor and Photo: Paula GillenDetails: Jason Smith, water commissioner for District 7 of the South Platte Basin, checks a stream gauge on Clear Creek. Smith lowers a drop weight into the water to ground truth the remote reading he receives by computer.
  • Client: Headwaters Magazine Summer 2017Photo Editor and Photographer: Paula GillenProject: Photograph Steve Maiers in Ft. Collins office for Headwaters Magazine. Details: Steve Malers, founder of the Open Water Foundation, works from his Fort Collins office to provide open source software and improve open data sharing and visualization across Colorado.
  • Client: Headwaters Magazine - 2017Project Details: Hire photographer to illustrate story on Colorado Water and HealthPhoto Editor: Paula GillenPhotographer: Matthew Staver
  • Client: Headwaters MagazineProject: Dale Colerick Major of Hillrose, CO Photo Paula GillenPhotographer: Paula GillenSubject: Water Infrastructure
  • Client: Penguin-Random House BooksProject: Book Jacket - Hollywood talent agent, Sue MengersDetails: Locate images from (1970s, 80s, and 90s) from stock agencies and photographers. Organize and present images to art director via Dropbox. Purchase and research books and magazines from this time period. Copy and send spreads to art director. Research copyright and clearance for selected image for cover.
  • Client: Oxmoor House PublishingProject: Southern Living: The Official SEC Tailgating CookbookProject Details: Locate, orgainize, and present images of 14 South Eastern Conference universities and football teams to illustrate a cookbook that had a mix of contemporary and historical imagery. Subjects included campus architecture, school football traditions, mascots, historical university sports imagery, current tailgaiting activities, and local travel destinations including tourist attractions, hotels, resturants, etc.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure.comProject: Locate images of architectural projects being built for the London Summer Olympics for use in a T&L.com video.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure magazineProject: Locate images for a double page Cox and Kings Travel ad running in Travel and Leisure magazine
  • Client: Travel and Leisure for Chico's.comProject: Advertorial series - Destination Fabulous featured on Chico's clothing website.Details: Locate, organize, and license travel images for art director at Chico's and also work with editors at Travel and Leisure.com. Supply photo credits, organize payment, create a Google doc spreadsheet of vendors info for Travel and Lesiure art director.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure for Chico's.comSubject: Advertorial series called Destination Fabulous written by T+L and featured on Chico's Clothing website.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure for Chico's.comSubject: Advertorial series called Destination Fabulous written by T+L and featured on Chico's Clothing website.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure for Chico's clothingProject: Advertorial series - Destination Fabulous featured on Chico's clothing website.Details: Locate, organize, and license travel images for art director at Chico's and also work with editors at Travel and Leisure.com. Supply photo credits, organize payment, create a Google doc spreadsheet of vendors info for Travel and Lesiure art director.
  • Client: Travel and Leisure for Chico's.comSubject: Advertorial series called Destination Fabulous written by T+L and featured on Chico's Clothing website.
  • Client: ECOS CommunicationsProject: Washakie Museum, Worland, WYProject Details: Hired to locate and license images of Wyoming history including early settlers, cattle industry, current and past paleontology digs in WY, famous figures from the paleontology field, historical images from Yale Peabody Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, high resolution copies of dinosaur paintings from various periods of time, and Wyoming newspaper clippings from the 1890s.
  • Client: ECOS CommunicationsProject: Washakie Museum, Worland, WYProject Details: Hired to locate and license images of Wyoming settlement and cattle industry, historical paleontology imagery from Wyoming, famous figures from paleontology history, dig sites, historical images from Yale Peabody Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, high resolution copies of dinosaur paintings from various periods of time, and Wyoming newspaper clippings.
  • Client: ECOS CommunicationsProject: Denver Zoo Asian Animal ExhibitionProject Details: Hired to locate and license images of Asian animals and their specific behavior, S.E. Asian cultural topics and environmental issues for same exhibit. Images were used on outside panels at the Zoo with text.
  • Client: ECOS CommunicationsProject: Vicksburg National Military ParkProject Details: Hired to locate and license Civil War era historical images, maps, and illustrations for the redesign of the Vicksburg National Military Park's wayside signs and educational panels. Vicksburg, MS.
  • Client: Cortina ProductionsProject: Interactive video display for the Ralph J. Carr Judicial Center in Denver, CO. Details: Locate images of judicial milestones from Colorado history, find images on LGBT issues, civil rights, reproductive rights, and interracial relationships. Research at the Boulder's Carnegie Branch Library, Denver Public Library - Western History and Genealogy Digital Collections, and the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, Denver, CO.
  • Client: Debra Silverman and Findhorn Press Project: Book: The Missing Element Details: Client came to me with a very short deadline to illustrate chapter openers for her upcoming book The Missing Element. I had to locate images that illustrated the human personality types of Water, Air, Earth, and Fire.
  • Client: Linkwell HealthProject: Locate images of celebrities for magazine prototype. Details: Obtain a variety of recent celebrity portraits at medium resolution to be licensed for this magazine prototype,
  • Client: Studio Tectonic Project: Bal Seal Corporation - display on company historyDetails: License historic metal shop and scientific images to be composited and placed behind Bal Seal products for corporate display
  • Client: ForbesLife Mountain Time - 2009Photographer: Lori Adamski PeekProject Details: Hire photographer, models, and stylist. Travel on location to Utah to help direct shoot on set.
  • Client: ForbesLife Mountain TimePhotographer: Lori Adamski PeekProject Details: Hire photographer, models, and stylist. Travel on location to Utah to help direct shoot on set.
  • Photo Editor: Paula Gillen (2009)Photographer: David RaccugliaSubject: Daron RahlvesDetails: Location scouting and work with photographer and stylist on location outside of Leadville, CO
  • Paula Gillen - Photo Editor - 2008Photographer: Jen Judge
  • Paula Gillen - Photo ResearcherClient: The New Yorker MagazinePhotographer: Irving Penn
  • Client: The New Yorker magazineTopic: Global WarmingPaula Gillen - Photo ResearcherPhotographer: DoDo Jin Ming/Laurence Miller Gallery
  • Client: The New Yorker magazineTopic: Poet and writer: Stanley KunitzPaula Gillen - Photo ResearcherPhotographer: Marnie Crawford Samuelson, right, Courtesy of Stanley Kunitz
  • Client: The New Yorker magazineTopic: Letter from KosovoPaula Gillen - Photo ResearcherPhotographer: Taco van der Eb/Polaris
  • Client: The New Yorker magazine Details: Locate and license a fine art photograph to illustrateThe New Yorker's weekly fiction section. Photo Researcher: Paula Gillen
  • Client: The New Yorker magazine Details: Locate and license a fine art photograph to illustrateThe New Yorker's weekly fiction section. Photo Researcher: Paula Gillen
  • Client: The New Yorker magazineStory: Annie Proulx FictionPhoto Resaercher: Paula GillenDetails: Solomon D. Butcher/Nebraska State Historical Society
  • Client: The New Yorker magazine Details: Locate and license fine art photographs to illustrateThe New Yorker's weekly fiction section. Photo Researcher: Paula Gillen
  • Client: The New Yorker magazine Details: Locate and license fine art photographs to illustrateThe New Yorker's weekly fiction section. Photo Researcher: Paula Gillen
  • Client: Time Europe Topic: 50th Anniversary IssuePhoto Editor/Photo Researcher: Paula Gillen
  • Client: Time Europe Topic: 50th Anniversary IssuePhoto Editor/Photo Researcher: Paula Gillen
  • Client: Time Inc Custom PublishingProject: 9-11 Memorial Issue - Merrill Lynch Photo Researcher: Paula Gillen
  • Client: Time Inc Custom PublishingProject: 9-11 Memorial Issue - Merrill Lynch Photo Researcher: Paula Gillen
  • Client: Time Inc Custom PublishingProject: 9-11 Memorial Issue - Merrill Lynch Photo Researcher: Paula Gillen
  • Client: Vanity FairPhoto Researcher: Paula Gillen (1993-1996) Topic: Barbara StreisandPhotographer: Cecil Beaton
  • Client: Vanity FairPhoto Researcher: Paula Gillen (1993-1996) Topic: Barbara StreisandPhotographer: Various
  • Client: Vanity FairTopic: Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti SmithPhoto Researcher: Paula Gillen
  • Client: BusinessWeekPhoto Editor: Paula GillenTopic: Finance Photographer: Katherine Lambert
  • Client: BusinessWeekPhoto Editor: Paula Gillen Topic: Finance Photographer: Chris Ware
  • Client: BusinessWeekPhoto Editor: Paula GillenPhotographer: David McGlynn
  • Client: People magazinePhoto Editor: Paula GillenPhotographer: Keri Pickettt
  • Client: People MagazinePhoto Editor: Paula Gillen Photographer: Brian Smith
  • Client: People MagazinePhoto Editor: Paula GillenPhotographer: Scientist Susan D. Sawtelle
  • Client: ArtnewsPhoto Editor: Paula Gillen Photographer: Andrew Eccles
  • Client: Time MagazineTopic: State of the PlanetPhoto Researcher: Paula GillenImage Detials: Left: Getty Images Right: Flip Nicklin/Minden Pictures
  • Client: McGraw-Hill EducationProject: Reading Grade 6Project Details: Locate historical photos of African American women, copy images to make them look distressed, age the journal pages and hire photographer to take copy image of the album.
  • Client: McGraw Hill BooksPhoto Editor: Paula GillenProject Details: in charge of hiring photographer, organizing and producing images to illustrate a McGraw Hill Grade K Children's Math textbook. Photographer: Ross Whitaker. 2002
  • Ciient: McGraw-Hill EducationProject: Teacher's Edition Grade K Math textbookPhoto Editor: Paula GillenProject Details: In charge of organizing and producing images to illustrate math problems. Photographer: Ross Whitaker
  • Photo Research
  • Book Jackets
  • Photo Book: Forgottonia: The Audience
  • Memoir: The Sky Is My Ceiling
  • Promotional Zine: Farm
  • Promotional Zine: Farm Dinner
  • Memoir: Martin Klapper
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