What are the responsibilities and job description for the Botanical Projects Photographer Job at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and B position at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens?
About Us
At The Huntington, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to support and promote the appreciation of the humanities, the arts, and botanical science. The Huntington is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, disability, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law.
The Huntington
Founded in 1919, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is a collections-based research and educational institution open to the public, housing world-class library, art, and botanical collections. Its mission is to support research and promote education in the arts, humanities, and botanical science and to display and interpret its extraordinary resources for diverse audiences.
The Culture
Here we are committed to the highest of standards in all that we do - from preserving and protecting the collections, to exhibitions, educational and scholarly programming, visitor and reader services, and beyond. Achieving excellence across these pursuits requires a diversity of perspectives, expertise, experience, and methodologies. We are better together. We believe an explicit commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion directly impacts and improves staff and audience engagement and experience.
Job Description
About the Role
The Huntington seeks a dynamic, enthusiastic, and collaborative Botanical Projects Photographer responsible for producing high-quality digital images of the Huntington's botanical collections, which include plant specimens, herbarium vouchers, and slide and photographic materials, for research, access, exhibition, and preservation use. Working as a member of the Imaging Section, Digital Collections and Imaging Services (DCIS), and reporting to the Principal Photographer and Imaging Manager, the Botanical Projects Photographer will be an integral part of the team responsible for The Huntington's Strategic Priority to "expand access, engagement, and education for a broader public, digitally and in-person" for the Botanical Gardens living and non-living collections.
This position is part-time (28 hours per week) for a limited term of one year , with the goal of creating baseline content from the Botanical Division's Core Living Collections for The Huntington's Collections Online. An average work week may include 60% photographing the Botanical collections (including habitat and copy stand photography), 40% post-processing and metadata. Maintains goals as set by the Principal Photographer and Imaging Manager in consultation with Botanical Department stakeholders. Will also work closely with the Digitization Projects Manager in DCIS and the Botanical Content Specialist, Botanical Gardens Administration on image priorities devised to fulfill those goals. In addition, this role will perform minimal post-production processing to crop and color correct and basic metadata description for access and searchability in The Huntington digital asset management system RAIL.
The ideal candidate will have a high degree of organizational skills and motivation to learn more about botanical / horticultural research. Familiarity with copy stand photography and cultural heritage imaging standards is preferred but not required. This position requires on-site presence and work in an outdoor environment under all weather conditions. Carrying, lifting, and bending of equipment up to ten pounds is required as is visual acuity including color vision.
S / he / they will demonstrate a background of working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds, using a welcoming, inclusive, and accessible approach.
Essential Duties
- Performs digital capture of botanical materials using specialized camera systems, studio lighting, digitization equipment and tools to DCIS specifications.
- Performs post-processing and standards-based quality control of digital images, working with digital asset management.
- Prepares and organizes digital files for ingest into digital repositories or delivery to other destinations utilizing file naming and tracking protocols.
- Work with Botanical Gardens curators and staff responding to ongoing and special project needs.
- Maintain photography equipment.
- Maintains a safe working environment.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Candidate Requirements and Experience
Knowledge, skills, and abilities :
Preferred :
Working Conditions
Working Environment
Work is performed primarily outdoors in all weather conditions and may encounter loud noises. This position requires regular on-site presence.
Compensation & Benefits
We provide competitive compensation, generous benefits and perks for all eligible employees including :
The Application Process
Please submit a cover letter and CV / resume as a single PDF attachment.
You will have the opportunity to submit additional documents on the "My Experience" section of the application.
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