Visual Media Consulting for Environmental Stories
Translating ideas into imagery.
Bridget specializes in the vision, creation and production of photography and multimedia projects that tell the story of how companies and organizations are helping to create a sustainable global community.
Guidance and direction on:
—Evaluating organizational 'messaging through imagery' to assess how conservation objectives can be accomplished and promoted with the help of visual media projects.
—Vision, creation and production management of media projects from the first collaborative idea to the final successful product.
—Teaching field staff how to make better images and video and how to improve archiving methods.
—Organization and better use of existing visual assets.
—Utilizing imagery and visual storytelling for social marketing.
Bridget has helped organizations to produce large-scale, first-time media projects, such as:
—Developing the Maine Farmland Trust's calender photo project idea into a photography project with hundreds of new images in their archive, a 30-image traveling exhibit and a coffee table book.
—Working with picture editors and marketing staff from five Pacific Northwest states at The Nature Conservancy to research, document and showcase the organization's work on salmon restoration, culminating in a ten-part multimedia series and magazine feature.
—Tackling the Maine Coast Heritage Trust's goal to incorporate more people into their conservation story by creating a five-part multimedia series exploring some of their key conservation sites and values.
—Helping Maine Woods Forever to raise awareness about the newly established Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail by developing and producing a large-scale photography exhibit, coffee table book and website.
A wide range of organizations have partnered with Bridget to create photography and multimedia projects, including:
Maine Farmland Trust, The Nature Conservancy,
Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Patagonia, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
NOAA,
Blue Earth Alliance, Chewonki Foundation,
Etica en los Bosques,
The Kittredge Foundation and
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Bridget has also published two books in partnership with environmental organizations: Wildness within Wildness without and From the Land.
See the books here
Client Testimonials
"Bridget has been an invaluable asset to Maine Coast Heritage Trust by creating images which have helped define our brand and integrate with the stories of our organization. Most importantly, she worked with staff in several areas of MCHT (land protection, stewardship, fundraising, communications) to understand our goals and objectives and assure she clearly understood what our conservation photography (and multimedia) objectives were before going into the field. She is flexible and professional…a pleasure to work with. The results have been truly fantastic."—Rich Knox, Director of Communications, Maine Coast Heritage Trust
“Bridget has helped Maine Farmland Trust in so many ways. A series of her photos helped us document our work, and enhance our website, but went well beyond that. We created large framed prints that have now traveled to venues around the state to promote our work. And together, we crafted a beautiful coffee table book—of photos and companion essays—that has helped Maine Farmland Trust bring our story to a wide audience.”—John Piotti, Executive Director, Maine Farmland Trust
"Bridget Besaw is a talented photojournalist with a sophisticated sense of contemporary conservation needs and principals. Bridget has a remarkable commitment and discipline which she uses to produce strong, targeted photography that tells the conservation story and related human narrative."—Mark Godfrey, Director of Photography, The Nature Conservancy
"Bridget is rare photojournalist who has deep understanding of and passion for investigating the relationship between humans and the natural resources on our planet. Her journalistic expertise and methodology gives her the ability to look intimately at natural resource issues to reveal complex and nuanced stories. Through her outstanding photography skills she creates engaging, information-rich images that are memorable and touch people’s hearts while engaging their minds.
By focusing on the specific story of human relationship to natural resources, Bridget is tapping into what I believe is one of the most important issues of the era. Her previous coverage of fisheries, farms, logging, recreation, ecotourism and conservation issues prove her informed, qualified photojournalist status." —Melissa Ryan, Deputy Director & Senior Editor, Photography & Design, Nature Conservancy Magazine