Hi! I’m Caylena – the founder of Co:Create / CC Photo & Media. Here’s a short video about how I fell in love with photography. 🙂
Here’s some background on my career…
- I’ve been a business owner and entrepreneur throughout my whole career
- Currently focused on helping small businesses and entrepreneurs develop a stand-out personal brand
- Worked in photojournalism (for publications such as Newsday Westchester and the Times Herald-Record)
- Worked in marketing for non-profits and tourism
- This experience gives me a special ability to find the unique, “promotable” elements of a personal brand or small business and turn them into compelling stories and photos
- My personal work has been exhibited in Ithaca, NY, New Paltz, NY, Rhinebeck, NY Kingston, NY, Woodstock, NY, New York City and St Just St Rambert, France.
- My assignment work has been featured in publications such as Hudson Valley Magazine, Chronogram, Upstater, Newsday Westchester, the Times Herald-Record, Organic Hudson Valley, Washington Business Journal, Raine Magazine and Fuse Magazine and in regional advertising campaigns and organization/business websites.
Here’s some background on my life…
- born and raised in the Mid-Hudson Valley,
- first got into photography as a child, playing with a 35mm camera and her Gymnastics Barbie dolls
- began pursuing photography more seriously in high school and college
- graduated from Ithaca College in 2010
- degrees in Still Photography (Bachelor of Science) and French (Bachelor of Arts), minor in journalism
- studied abroad in Paris & Rome
- taught English in St Etienne, France after college
- fluent in French
- volunteers with HOBY, has been for over 10 years
- I’ve lost over 50 lbs on a personal health journey
- I’m a dancer and have done tap, ballet, tumbling and more