Photography & Digital Images: Home

We are in a transition period from an office that formerly focused on archival, historical event coverage, to a new one that focuses on creating high impact, commercial-style photography for promotional purposes for campus stakeholders.

Phase One: 

1. We will reduce quantity of images recorded in favor of quality in order to improve financial and labor sustainability of our operations.
2. We will reduce coverage of events
   1. to shorter windows of time (~15m) whenever visual content doesn't change throughout the event
   2. in general to give higher priority to creating commercial-style images that impact the university mission statement and advertising on a macro level.  
3. We will work with campus organizers who require longer coverage lengths to find alternative solutions that will work for them.

Phase Two: 

1. We hope to expand our services to include commercial style images for advertising purposes, pending recruitment and training.
   1. for department heads and directors.
   2. in collaboration with student groups on a case-by-case basis, as long as those photos can be used publicly for marketing.

Phase Three: 

1. We hope to offer one or two unannounced new service(s) that constitute a paradigm shift in the way we produce and distribute media.
2. We will announce these service(s) after an initial trial period with a limited test group to fine tune our operation and ensure financial and operational sustainability before public release.

Thank you for your patience,

SUA Photography Team

1. Coverage of events without visual changes are limited to 15 minutes of coverage.  If the event visual content changes, we will reevaluate on a case-by-case basis pending photographer availability and resources.
2. Communication before an event is required one week in advance, and strongly encouraged two weeks or earlier in advance so that we can get your event or photo shoot into our pipeline during weekly assignment meetings.
3. Student groups requesting images from larger events are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. 
4. Please accompany social media, web and print distributions with the caption or post description with our office and the individual photographers referenced: Courtesy of SUA Staff Photographers, Jane Smith and John Doe.

We will eliminate some coverage we have offered in the past that are purely archival or complimentary in nature and unsustainable for labor and cost reasons.

1. Grip and Grin images with Diploma with the President during Commencement.
2. Images of people during meals where they are chewing on food, reduction of "group table shots" due to interruptive nature
3. "Commemorative" photos at the conclusion of events unless requested in advance
4. "Side shots" during Group Photos
5. Private parties, Employee parties, Grip and Grin images with employee awards during Holiday Party
6. Comprehensive coverage of student groups during large events such as International Festival.
7. Temporarily: distribution of images of specific individuals from large events to individual students, staff and faculty.  This is unsustainable to offer at the present time.  We recommend scheduling new commercial or portrait shoots with us when a marketable image of an individual is required.
8. Although we always strive to push technology and workflow to reduce our editing and delivery time, we cannot at this time guarantee rapid same-night or next-day deliveries for event organizers and attendees who want to relive the moment.
9. Extended coverage following individuals around.  In general, we recommend hiring outside vendors if you need a photographer to accompany an individual greeting guests for an extended portion of an event.

Photo Team - rotating staff
photo@soka.edu / phone pending

Charlie Wang - Lead Shooter & Coordinator
chwang@soka.edu / (949) 480-4284