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Freelance photographer & graphic designer

Creative & Design

Experienced Photographer & Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the photography industry. Skilled in both Natural & Studio light settings, Art Direction, and Story Telling. Strong photography and design professional with a Bachelor's Degree focused in Graphic Design from Columbia College Chicago.

Freelance photographer and designer working with clients on a wide range of projects. 

Graphic Design: branding & identity systems, in-store marketing, apparel, editorial design and packaging. 

Photography: lifestyle/editorial, product, portraiture and live music coverage

Clients Include: Boombah Inc/ GQ "Men's Month" / Haberdash Chicago / Adidas Y-3 / USASF / ICU / React Presents / Keh Camera / Buzzfeed / Freshly Inked Magazine / DOPE Magazine / Chicago Music Magazine / Gnarly Magazine / Chicago Tribune / Red Bull "Art of Motion" / Sears / Kmart

Studio Photographer

-Manage and meet all Ecommerce photography needs including product receiving, prep, general styling, crop & retouch for all still media.

-Photographing product still lifes and on figure following guidelines and brand standards

-Photographing finalized samples & prep files for digital customization platform

-Content creation for all marketing efforts wether traditional or digital mediums.

-Collaborating with creative and product development teams to concept & execute photoshoots

-Quality assurance of all images. Including cropping and final processing, naming and accurately archiving images for future use.

-Meet daily/weekly production schedule of e-commerce/digital marketing needs

-Designed & Manage photography studio, in/out products, set build/tear-down and equipment repair and upkeep.

Brand Image Designer/Photographer

Collaborated with marketing team to organize and execute lifestyle/editorial marketing content for both digital and print campaigns. 

Created ongoing content for social media platforms in parallel with marketing efforts. 

Produced imagery for use on Ecommerce homepage/ blogposts/ marketing campaigns. 

Assisted lead designer in managing ecomm homepage content of sliders & banners.

Lead Photographer

Assisted daily in the studio to streamline workflow with product logging and other preparation before photoshoots.

Photographed and styled products according to the standards of the Sears & Kmart brands working with a wide selection of products from apparel and other soft goods to fashion accessories, home and other hard goods. 

Maintained proper file organization practices for handing off images for final retouching. 

Ecommerce Photographer & Studio Assistant

Customer Service Representative handling transactions in the checkout line, making sure each customer was well taken care of and helped when needed. I was also responsible for general cleaning duties around the front end of the store as well as carts in the parking lot.

Customer Service Representative

Grant Lechner is a Freelance photographer & graphic designer at grantlechner.com in Chicago, IL.

Grant Lechner

Grant Lechner

Grant Lechner

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College of DuPage

Columbia College Chicago