WORK EXPERIENCE
Valley News - West Lebanon, N.H.
Photo Editor (11/98-present)
In charge of four photographers, responsible for planning and implementing the visual report for news, feature and special sections of the 18,000 circ. daily.
Coordinate coverage with editors and reporters, involved with projects, edit staff and wire photography and attend news meetings for planning and budgeting photographs, graphics and illustrations.
In addition to designing centerpiece news features, layout the daily front page and at least two weekly photo pages. Research and write capital expenditure requests and budget proposals. Create and download spot news graphics.
Acting Assignment Editor (12/97-5/98, 12/98-10/99)
Coordinator of coverage between ten reporters and four photographers. Responsible for planning the day's news budget, assigning stories and giving advice to writers through the reporting process. Meet with other editors to decide how the readership is best served in news coverage.
Chief Photographer (11/94-10/98)
Responsible for hiring, training, scheduling and motivating two full-time staff photographers and a year-round intern.
Staff Photographer (9/89-11/94)
On a three-person staff, responsible for all areas of newspaper photo coverage. Switched to C-41 color with morning publication in April 1993.
The Patriot Ledger - Quincy, Mass.
Staff Photographer Intern (6/89-9/89)
Responsible for daily assignments at the 90,000 circ. p.m. daily.
Kalamazoo Gazette - Kalamazoo, Mich.
Staff Photographer Intern (6/87-9/87)
Photography of daily assignments at the 63,000 circ. p.m. daily.
The Minnesota Daily - Minneapolis, Minn.
Photo Editor (4/88-3/89)
Responsible for shaping photographic coverage with newsroom staff. Picture edit twice weekly, hire and train photographers on the twelve person staff, draft budget requests and coordinate major photo equipment purchases for the university's student-run 45,000 circ. daily. Worked as Assistant Photo Editor (4/87-3/88) and Staff Photographer (10/85-5/89).
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Book work
• Living with Pigs by Chuck Wooster and photographs by Geoff Hansen, to be published in June 2008 by The Lyons Press
• Teach Yourself VISUALLY Quilting by Sonja Hakala and photographs by Geoff Hansen, published 11/07 by Wiley Publishing
• Living with Sheep by Chuck Wooster and photographs by Geoff Hansen,
published 5/05 by The Lyons Press
• Harvest: A Year in the Life of an Organic Farm by Nicola Smith and photographs by Geoff Hansen,published 11/04 by The Lyons Press
• Contract photographer for America 24/7,
released 11/03 by DK Publishing
• Photographs in The Horse in Winter by Susan McBane,
published 8/03 by The Lyons Press
• Photography in Keep Chickens! by Barbara Kilarski,
released 7/03 by Storey Publishing
• Photographs in In Harmony with Your Horse by Clare Ablinson,
published 7/03 by The Lyons Press
• Living with Chickens by Jay Rossier and photographs by Geoff Hansen,
published 6/02 by The Lyons Press
• Photographer and author of My Life As A Dog published 10/99
by Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Barbie Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer and photographs by Geoff Hansen,
published 10/97 by New Victoria Publishers
Freelance work
iPhoto.ca contributor, 11/01-present
Web site designer — go to geoffhansen.com/websites to see samples, 1/01-present
Newsmakers contributor, 3/00-9/00
Wedding photographer, 8/94-present
Impact Visuals contributor, 11/96-4/01
Associated Press, N.H. and Vt. bureaus, 9/89-present
Published in The Advocate, Boston Globe, Brill's Content, Chronicle of Higher Education, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Farm & Ranch Living, Newsday, Newsweek, New York Times, Old Farmer's Almanac, USA Today and Vermont Life
Exhibitions
All Around the Barnyard
Windsor County State's Attorney offices, White River Junction, Vt., 2/07-present
Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Montpelier, Vt., 7/07-12/07
A Day in the Life of Tunbridge
Group show and fundraiser by eighteen photographers
Tunbridge Public Library, Tunbridge, Vt., 9/07-10/07
Aperture: Photography 2005
Group show of six photographers
Cooler Gallery, White River Junction, Vt., 4/05-5/05
Geoff Hansen: On (And Off) The Farm
Lyme Library, Lyme, N.H., 1/04-2/04
Tunbridge Public Library, Tunbridge, Vt., 4/03-6/03
Beasts of Burden: A photographic exhibition
of oxen and those who care for them
Logic Associates, Wilder, Vt., 6/99-9/99
Quechee Public Library, Quechee, Vt., 9/99-2/00
Windsor County State's Attorney offices, White River Junction, Vt.,
2/00-1/03
Volunteer work
Coordinator, A Day in the Life of Tunbridge, 5/07-10-07
Publicist, NHPA's First In the Nation exhibit, 11/99
Lecturer and portfolio critic at the NPPA National Convention, 6/98
NHPA Pictures of the Year Chair, 12/94-4/00
NPPA Region 1 Clip Contest Chair, 12/92-12/94
NHPA Secretary, 3/92-4/93
NHPA Vice-president, 3/91-2/92
EDUCATION
Visual communication, University of Minnesota
Poynter Institute Leadership Development Program participant, 12/99
Kalish Picture Editing Workshop participant, 6/99
Missouri Workshop participant, 10/95
AWARDS AND ASSOCIATIONS
First place, sports feature, New England Associated Press, 1996
First place, feature, New England Associated Press, 1994
First place, portrait, New England Associated Press, 1994
First place, spot news, NHPA Pictures of the Year, 1992
First place, sports, NPPA National Clip Contest, October 1992
Second place, NHPA Photographer of the Year, 1990
First place, spot news, New England Associated Press, 1989
Award of Excellence, spot news, College Photographer of the Year, 1988
National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), 1986-present
New Hampshire Photojournalists Association (NHPA), 1989-2001
Minnesota News Photographers Association (MNPA), 1986-1991
Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA), 2004-present