Brittany Paris' Portfolio

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BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIOPHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGNBACKGROUNDEDUCATIONMISSOURI SCHOOL OF JOURNALISMGraduated May 2007B.A. in Journalism with minors in Sociology and Spanish3.78 G.P.A. on 4.0 scale

WORK EXPERIENCE SUMMARYSCENIC DECORATORCOURT 13 NEW ORLEANS, LA / APRIL - AUG. 2010

AFTER SCHOOL ARTS SPECIALIST VALLEY FORGE SCHOOLFEB. - APRIL 2010, AUG. - OCT. 2010

VOLUNTEER DISPLAY ARTISTFREE PEOPLEPHILADELPHIA, PA SEPT. 2009 - APRIL 2010

GRAPHIC DESIGNER COMMONWEALTH PROPERPHILADELPHIA, PAMARCH - AUG. 2009

DESIGN ASSOCIATE PUBLIC INTEREST GRAPHICS PHILADELPHIA, PAJUNE 2008 - MARCH 2009

MEDIA LITERACY VOLUNTEER LA CASA NUEVASANTIAGO, CHILE / JAN. - APRIL 2008

ESL INSTRUCTOR NEW ORLEANS ARCHDIOCESE NEW ORLEANS, LA / AUG. - DEC. 2007

CAMPAIGN ASSISTANTUNITED WAY NEW ORLEANS, LA / JUNE - DEC. 2007

INTERVIEWERCENTER FOR ADVANCED SOCIAL RESEARCH COLUMBIA, MO / MAY 2004 - MAY 2007

GALLERY ASSISTANT MUSEUM OF ART & ARCHAEOLOGYCOLUMBIA, MOAUG. - MAY 2007

COMMUNICATION SPECIALISTADELANTE!COLUMBIA, MO / AUG. - DEC. 2006

GALLERY INTERN PUMP PROJECT GALLERYAUSTIN, TX / MAY - SEPT. 2006

COPY EDITING INTERNCANTANKER MAGAZINEAUSTIN, TXMAY - SEPT. 2006

COMMUNICATIONS INTERNCOEPAALICANTE, SPAIN FEB. - JULY 2005

WRITER + TRANSLATOR EL VICENT + REEFVIEWS.COMALICANTE, SPAIN / SEPT. - MAY 2005

STUDIO ASSISTANT DAVID EAST COLUMBIA, MOAUG. 2003 - MAY 2004

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NUESTRA CASA1/2 2008 Photo Story

Santiago’s De La Vega market is an open public space by day that turns to a makeshift domicile for the homeless by night.

One resident named Cristian was born 27 years ago in the Atacama desert in Arica--“A city so dry they must make paper flowers for the dead,” he says. “But we have the most curi-ous flowers on the graves of our dead--blue ones, even green ones,” he says as he cracks a smile.

He moved to Santiago as a 15-year-old who didn’t belong. “It was hard for my parents and small town to accept a boy who was more a little girl than any-thing.”


NUESTRA CASA2/2 2008 Photo Story

He decided to move to Santiago, with little money and less experi-ence. In less than four months he was on hard times, into drugs and dabbling with prostitution to make rent. Two years later he was diagnosed with HIV. “Times,” he says, “were very black.”

It was his creativity that allowed him to be the vibrant person he is now, ten years later. He lives in the slums, but feels no shame. “We have fought to be here,” he acknowledged the rest of the crowd with a twist of his neck. “I strive to enjoy my life. Most of us around here do too. I sew in the morning, I sing and paint in the day. At night I spend time with friends, going out. I re-ally can’t imagine a better life.”


TREMESECONDLINE1/4 2007 Photo Story

Second lines trace their roots back to the 19th century in New Orleans. These processions are the work of crewes, or fraternal societies and neighborhood orga-nizations that collectively provided burial services to members.

The crewe is the official “main line” of the funeral and the im-promptu “second line” can be joined freely by anyone who feels inspired to do so.

August 29 marked the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Crescent City.

As part of a celebration of New Orleans, the Treme Crewe per-formed to honor those who per-ished in the storm.




In recent months the raucous-ness associated with the second lines has attracted more attention from the New Orleans Police Department.

In an attempt to control the crowds, the NOPD has started citing crewes as well as individu-als participating in second lines for parading without a permit issued by the city.

Lifelong Treme resident Louis Curry 65, shown ,center in photo, is one who believes that permits should not be required for the neighborhood memorial parades. Despite a failing leg, Curry made it to the procession’s start. “I need to be here, to show my sup-port for our heritage,” he said.



“For a century,” he said, that heritage has included impromptu second-line parades for musi-cians who die, “from the day they pass until the day they’re put in the ground.” Those memo-rial processions still occur with regularity, without permits, as is the tradition. But, increasingly, NOPD officers have been halt-ing them, citing complaints from neighbors and incidents of vio-lence at similar gatherings.

The August 29th parade was without incident. It was peaceful-ly escorted by the New Orleans Police Department, thanks to a newly issued permit, the result of lengthy meetings between com-munity groups and police offi-cials.




The focus on celebrating the value of New Orleans’ unique musical culture has sometimes drawn attention away from other pressing issues—such as the exploitation of musicians and other low-wage workers, the conversion of public housing into mixed-use developments, or the way in which those with the power to change these situations choose to look the other way and maintain centuries of backward thinking.

As we contemplate the city’s renewal two years after Katrina, we should understand the im-portance of tradition to resi-dents and allow them to have an active voice in deciding how this city will reconstruct itself.


TODOENVEJECERÁ1/2 2004 Photo Story

Maria and Norberto Garina met when Norberto was hospitalized after a car accident as a young man. Maria was his nurse.

“I remember waking up one day, and seeing this pretty girl moving around my room,” said Norberto. “She looked a me and I knew that I’d better not get well too soon.”They were married one year later.

“It’s best to be close but also stay out of each other’s way,” said Ma-ria when I asker her what the se-cret to their relationship. “When he used to teach, I used to get so jealous of his books,” she said. “I also realized that if he gave them up, he would not be the man I loved.” She patted Norberto’s leg and winked.


TODO ENVEJECERÁ2/2 2004 Photo Story

Ramon and Nieves Ferrer have been together for 52 years. They attended to secondary school together in Aspe, Spain and were married shortly after graduation.Ramon worked on their farm and Nieves stayed at home with their three children and taught herself to paint.

I asked them the secret to a long-lasting relationship. “He is fun to be with,” said Nieves. “But I have fun on my own too sometimes”

“We really like each other and always have,” said Ramon when I asked him how they had stayed together all these years. He looked at Nieves hopefully as if to seek validation that they did, indeed like one another.



VOLUNTOURISM1/3 2007 Photo Story

Since Hurricane Katrina, numer-ous relief and non-profit orga-nizations have flooded the Gulf Coast to help with the volume of work that must be done for the city to return to its pre-Ka-trina state. These volunteers have helped with everything from gutting houses to distributing resources. Many welcome the vol-unteers with open arms, others are wary of their motives.

This photo project follows an AmeriCorps group from Montana that had come to assist revegeta-tion efforts headed by The Green Project, a non-profit that works to strategically plant and care for plants in certain hard hit and at-risk areas in New Orleans.



The group of Montanans, aged 20-41 years, worked each day of the month-long service project. The first day they planted trees in New Orleans East, one of the areas hardest hit by the storm. Even now, only 1 in 6 homes is occupied. Piles of debris remain in the place of houses.

This particular project was devised by the Green Proj-ect to provide protection from floodwaters and storm winds, as well as beautify the neigh-borhood. Residents noticed the activity outside and recog-nized the familiar AmeriCorps insignia on the shirts of the volunteers. Residents came out, not only to greet the vol-unteer, but also chipped in.



Artist spaces opened after the storm in abandoned warehouses in New Orleans East. The Ameri-Corps volunteers cleared debris from the grounds of the now-de-funct American Beauty Cream-ery which now serves as artists’ studio space. Volunteers also built and planted gardens.

The Green Project’s Hilary Strobel, a San Francisco trans-plant, maintained that the goal of this project lies in attracting young and vibrant individuals to the city and keep them there. “ Young people moving here, spending money here, dedicat-ing their time and talents to improve this city is exactly what is necessary for this city to over-come the effects of Katrina.”



TACITDECAY1/4, 2/4 2007 Artistic Photo Project

In this more creative photo proj-ect, I focused on the inevitable memory decay that happens as we reminisce. We know our specific memories are changing even as we reflect upon them, but we rare-ly think of places decaying with time in the same way our memo-ries do. I chose to make a set of my old house as I would imag-ine it would have decayed in the 12 years since I had lived there.



TACITDECAY3/4 2008 Artistic Photo Project

These are toys I actually played with as a child mixed with fa-miliar detritus. This set is in my childhood bedroom.



TACITDECAY4/4 2008 Artistic Photo Project

I trod through the back door of our house thousands of times. I placed my favorite pair of shoes as though they were stepping through the entrance.


ELBOLSON2007

The following photos were taken as I experimented with my Nikon FM-10 Film Camera. I played with crossprocessing C-41 film as E-6 film in the lab. When neces-sary, I changed the color balance in Adobe Lightroom.


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COMISSIONEDWORK12009 oil on canvas 4’ x 3’

This is the first of two pieces created for someone’s home. The two works are displayed as a diptych placed one above the other. The color palette was predetermined by the client, but composition was left to me.



COMISSIONEDWORK22009 oil on canvas 4’ x 3’

These paintings were in-tended to be placed n a room with two adjacent floor to ceiling windows overlooking a forest and the hills to the west. I chose the color palette to compliment the seasonal shades of the trees and those of the western sunset.



UNTITLED2008 acrylic on salvaged wood 10’ x 7’

I spent a month in my child-hood home in 2008. The work that came from this experience coalesced around the idea that we learn a great deal from revis-iting not only places, but ideas and memories. This was a map that represented the area where I grew up. The wood was salvaged from my grandfather’s barn and the colors I selected were chose to invoke a vivid nostalgia.



UNTITLED2008 acrylic on salvaged wood 5’ x 4’

This is another piece from the Revisitation collection. It repre-sents the ways in which the sense of comfort we interpret as mun-dane in our adolescence fosters feelings of hope and excitement for the future.



Installed for the show “gone but not lost” at the Tiburina Museum in Philadelphia, PA.

ANYWAY2008 acrylic on salvaged wood 7’ x 20’


SIGNIFIER/SIGNIFIED2010 pen on paper 20” x 16”

The first of three drawings based on the way human lan-guage not only represents ideas at face value but also represents invisible layers of meaning that are often more complex than can be under-stood at face value. This draw-ing is an homage to Ferdinand de Sassure’s description of a language’s dualistic process in which no word is inherently meaningful.



MASTER/SLAVE2009 ink on paper 20” x 16”

This is the second of the three drawings. Hegel wrote of the Master Slave Dialectic as an en-counter between two self-con-scious individuals who engage in a struggle to the death to enslave one another and the subsequent upset that ensues once this goal is reached. This drawing rep-resents the how the struggle is manifested in the way humans wield language.



THEVOICETHATKEEPSSILENCE2009 ink on paper 20” x 16”

This is the second of the three drawings based on semiotic pro-cesses. The title comes from an essay by Derrida that describes the often suppressed insight that the living present is always al-ready marked by difference.


Illustration for a story co-written by my 10-year-old brother. The story is a rendition of the fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” that ends with the boy being 9/10 eaten by the wolf but remaining alive while the wolf dies. The boy has to wear he wolf carcass around forever as if it were a costume to show the world that both people and wolves cannot be trusted.

THEBOYWHOCRIEDWOLF2009 acrylic on wood panel 4” x 11”


RUSSIANHISTORY2009 acrylic on wood panel 5” x 10”

A physical rendering of important figures in Russian history for a history lesson I taught my young-er brother.


STOLEN2009 acrylic on wood panel 6” x 7”

Illustration for a children’s story in which the land is living and sacred. Beings can make a great deal of profit from stealing small bits of land. This is a scene of one such heist that happens in the dead of night while the hills are sleeping.



ESCAPE2009 acrylic on wood panel 4” x 11”


COMMONWEALTH PROPER WEBSITE DESIGN2009

Commonwealth proper is a Philadelphia-based men’s cloth-ing company that offers both custom and traditional gar-ments. I worked on a freelance and volunteer basis with them in 2009 to revamp their image. This included a new website design, messaging strategies and event coordination. The web-site was designed to be simple, yet classic, with prominent eye catching visuals. Commonwealth Proper selected the color palette and told me that they would like to have a new photo or a video to display on the home page each week. This design was imple-mented by the web developer and ran for a few months in 2009.


KARAHICKSWEBSITE2008

Ms. Hicks asked that I make a simple website for her to fea-ture her artwork. She asked that the background be a painting of hers indicative of her style. I designed this for her in 2007, but she has since let it expire.



MIDWESTEEST-shirt Design KCOU Radio

This is a small batch t-shirt de-sign comissioned by KCOU radio.



COMMONWEALTHPROPER2009 T-shirt Design

This T-shirt design was con-ceptualized for Commonwealth Proper’s line of branding t-shirts to go into production once the line established a reputation in casual wear.



A windmill near Somerset, PA providing the state with with clean, renewable energy.

To view more of PennEnvironment’s work to secure a cleaner energy future, visit our Web site at:PennEnvironment.org/energy

PennEnvironment staff meet with Pennsylvania State Sen. Pat Browne on clean energy issues.

PENNENVIRONMENT2008 Newsletter

PennEnvironment was one of my eight clients while I worked for Public Interest Graphics in 2008. I designed quarterly newsletters for the clients to send to their members. A full copy of the newsletter can be found in the supplement sec-tion at the end of the portfolio.



PENNPIRG2008 Transit Map

I developed this transit map for PennPIRG director to distribute to legislators to visually explain his proposal for a new system of transit to be implemented in Pennsylvania and surround-ing states. A full copy can be found at the end of the portfolio.

Scranton to Hoboken, NJ This new route, running on existing track, would facilitate travel between Scranton and Hoboken, NJ by connecting northeastern Pennsylvania to the transit system of New Jersey. The new service would run 18 train trips per day, carrying up to 6,700 passenger trips each weekday, and diverting 2,700 car trips from the road. Lehigh Valley to Philadelphia

The Lehigh Valley saw its last SEPTA train depart in 1979 as service was phased out. Restoring service as far as Quakertown, 13 miles south of Allentown, would vastly extend SEPTA’s reach and greatly reduce congestion in the Lehigh Valley.

Schuylkill Valley Metro The Schuylkill Valley Metro, which connected Reading to Philadelphia until 1981, has received renewed interest lately for passenger service. Once built, the line would carry an estimated 42,000 to 68,000 passenger trips each weekday, of which 47 percent would be new to transit.Roosevelt Blvd. Metro A new rail line would share the Broad Street subway line’s express tracks from Center City,eventually branching off to the Northeast in a bored tunnel under Roosevelt Boulevard. The line would mostly stay below ground until passing Blue Grass Road, after which it would be raised above street level on an elevated platform. Because the area is well-suited to such a transit improvement, ridership would be expected to rival Philadelphia’s other major subway lines at 124,500 daily boardings, replacing 83,300 daily car trips andsaving 12,900 hours of wasted time each day from reduced

congestion and faster travel. The congestion benefi ts would extend beyond Roosevelt Boulevard itself onto I-95 and other nearby roads.Cross County Metro

This new line would connect Thorndale to Trenton via a SEPTA line that would traverse Chester, Montgomery, and Bucks counties north of downtown Philadelphia. Currently, all of SEPTA’s major transit lines feed into downtown Philadelphia; the Cross County Metro would connect many of the northern lines together, making it possible to move between outlying areas more quickly.Expanding PATCO

The Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO) is considering expanding its South Jersey to downtown Philadelphia service to include a line running along the Delaware River on the city’s waterfront. Ridership for the fi rst phase of the project was estimated at 7,900 daily trips, at a cost of approximately $1 billion. Stops along the waterfront would greatly enhance the ability to visit waterfront attractions and employments using public transit, since the only existing service to those areas is slower bus routes. Extending the Fox Chase Line to Newtown

This would restore rail service from Fox Chase to Newtown, connecting that city to downtown Philadelphia and the rest of the SEPTA network. Extending the Elwyn line to Sylmar This line would pass through several towns including Wawa, Chadds Ford, and Oxford, allowing them easy access to Philadelphia and the entire SEPTA network.

Because of chronic budget defi cits, SEPTA has been shrinking since 1980. Now, with soaring oil prices generating new interest in public transporta-tion, our state has the chance to move ahead with building new rail lines and improving speed and service on existing rail lines. The Philadelphia and Pittsburgh suburbs need more transit, and cities like Allentown, Scranton, and Reading, which used to have passenger rail service, need to be reconnected.

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PROGRESSFLORIDA2008 Business Card

Progress Florida came into existence in 2008 and they be-came my client. I worked with the director to develop identity materials such as this business card as well as canvass materials.

A windmill near Somerset, PA providing the state with with clean, renewable energy.

To view more of PennEnvironment’s work to secure a cleaner energy future, visit our Web site at:PennEnvironment.org/energy

PennEnvironment staff meet with Pennsylvania State Sen. Pat Browne on clean energy issues.

Hikers enjoying Pennsylvania’s portion of the Appalachian Trail.

To view the complete interview, visit PennEnvironment’s Web site: www.PennEnvironment.org/newsletters

Rep. Jason Altmire Rep. Chris Carney Rep. Patrick Murphy Rep. Joe SestakU.S. Sen. Robert Casey Jr.

Andrew Dinniman Vincent Fumo

Lisa Bennington Robert Freeman Babette Josephs David Kessler Daylin Leach Brian Lentz Phyllis Mundy James Roebuck Steve Samuelson Dante Santoni Rick Taylor Greg Vitali Don Walko

The following elected offi cials scored 100% on PennEnvironment’s 2008 Environmental Scorecard

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Scranton to Hoboken, NJ This new route, running on existing track, would facilitate travel between Scranton and Hoboken, NJ by connecting northeastern Pennsylvania to the transit system of New Jersey. The new service would run 18 train trips per day, carrying up to 6,700 passenger trips each weekday, and diverting 2,700 car trips from the road. Lehigh Valley to Philadelphia

The Lehigh Valley saw its last SEPTA train depart in 1979 as service was phased out. Restoring service as far as Quakertown, 13 miles south of Allentown, would vastly extend SEPTA’s reach and greatly reduce congestion in the Lehigh Valley.

Schuylkill Valley Metro The Schuylkill Valley Metro, which connected Reading to Philadelphia until 1981, has received renewed interest lately for passenger service. Once built, the line would carry an estimated 42,000 to 68,000 passenger trips each weekday, of which 47 percent would be new to transit.Roosevelt Blvd. Metro A new rail line would share the Broad Street subway line’s express tracks from Center City,eventually branching off to the Northeast in a bored tunnel under Roosevelt Boulevard. The line would mostly stay below ground until passing Blue Grass Road, after which it would be raised above street level on an elevated platform. Because the area is well-suited to such a transit improvement, ridership would be expected to rival Philadelphia’s other major subway lines at 124,500 daily boardings, replacing 83,300 daily car trips andsaving 12,900 hours of wasted time each day from reduced

congestion and faster travel. The congestion benefi ts would extend beyond Roosevelt Boulevard itself onto I-95 and other nearby roads.Cross County Metro

This new line would connect Thorndale to Trenton via a SEPTA line that would traverse Chester, Montgomery, and Bucks counties north of downtown Philadelphia. Currently, all of SEPTA’s major transit lines feed into downtown Philadelphia; the Cross County Metro would connect many of the northern lines together, making it possible to move between outlying areas more quickly.Expanding PATCO

The Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO) is considering expanding its South Jersey to downtown Philadelphia service to include a line running along the Delaware River on the city’s waterfront. Ridership for the fi rst phase of the project was estimated at 7,900 daily trips, at a cost of approximately $1 billion. Stops along the waterfront would greatly enhance the ability to visit waterfront attractions and employments using public transit, since the only existing service to those areas is slower bus routes. Extending the Fox Chase Line to Newtown

This would restore rail service from Fox Chase to Newtown, connecting that city to downtown Philadelphia and the rest of the SEPTA network. Extending the Elwyn line to Sylmar This line would pass through several towns including Wawa, Chadds Ford, and Oxford, allowing them easy access to Philadelphia and the entire SEPTA network.

Because of chronic budget defi cits, SEPTA has been shrinking since 1980. Now, with soaring oil prices generating new interest in public transporta-tion, our state has the chance to move ahead with building new rail lines and improving speed and service on existing rail lines. The Philadelphia and Pittsburgh suburbs need more transit, and cities like Allentown, Scranton, and Reading, which used to have passenger rail service, need to be reconnected.

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Pittisburgh to Latrobe The Norfolk Southern Commuter Rail would start at the Amtrak Station in downtown Pittsburgh and end 31 miles away in Latrobe of Westmoreland County, after passing through the busy Route 30 corridor. Travel fromGreensburg to downtown Pittsburgh would take only 49 minutes, saving 15 minutes relative to a car and over half an hour compared with the 1F bus route.

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Editor: James Browning. Contributors: Jim Amspacher, Justin Boyles, Zach Cullimore, Matthew Curtis, Richard J. Hannigan, Sara Landis, Ethan Lavine, Jesse Littlewood, Leana Nordstrom, Jenna Perry Leschuk, Ryan Moeckly, Brittany Paris, Dan Platt, Nathan Proctor, Heather Shute, Drew Stephan, Jenne Turner. Publications Director: Richard J. Hannigan. Design: Public Interest GRFX (215) 985-1113

The Spine Line The Spine Line Light Rail would involve cre-ating a new light rail line that would connect downtown Pittsburgh with Oakland and continue on to either Wilkinsburg or Home-stead. The system would reduce travel time to Oakland between 29 and 45 percent, depending on the alternative chosen, and provide a direct link between the city’s biggest centers of employment, education and culture.

Pittsburgh-Philadelphia High-Speed Rail The recently completed high-speed line between Philadelphia and Harrisburg increased top train speeds to 110, cutting half an hour off express routes between the two cities. Modernizing the route all the way to Pitts-burgh would be even more useful, since passengers could travel across the state in high-speed trains.

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Allegheny Valley Line This new line would follow the southern shore of the Allegheny River over 18 miles, either from 11th Street or the Strip District in Pittsburgh, to Lawrenceville, Verona, Oakmont, New Kensington, and fi nally to Arnold. One option of this plan would be to include a secondary spur to Oakland, another important center of employment.

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