Pavlo Podufalov - Резюме Remote Photo Editor, Bild Editor, visual editor in Media

The Kyiv Post newspaper and website
February 2013- December 2021
Chief Photo editor, photo department leader

Responsibilities:

- Managing the newspaper’s photo department, organizing photographic coverage of media events, selecting and editing pictures for articles
- Responsible for the photo component of the newspaper and its website https://www.kyivpost.com/
- Searching and selecting requested images for newspaper and website in all possible sources: photo news agencies, archives, and stocks, as well as from staff or non-staff photographers
- Following developments in Ukraine and beyond in order to be ready to find a certain picture necessary swiftly
- Understanding the industry and working with top-notch Ukrainian and foreign image agencies.
- Creating image galleries covering media events, as well as illustrating long read stories and photo reports
- Taking pictures for the newspaper’s printed issues, website, and photo archive
- Developing and creating original special topics and photo projects.
- Providing staff writers with training in basic photojournalism skills

Achievements:

- Knowing multiple free and high-quality sources of images.
- Bringing the newspapers and website’s visual component to a highly professional level.
- Creating the editorial board’s own image archive.
- Organizing an online image archive system facilitating the search of images by any user.
- Participating in the development of the website’s new design.
- Developing technical specifications regarding the display of pictures for web designers creating a new Kyiv Post website.
- Copyright control
- Creation of a Photo Department from "Zero": recruiting and hiring personnel, purchase of equipment, formation of the budget for the photography service (salaries for photographers, freelancers, conclusion of contracts, spending on the purchase of photos on photo agencies and stocks)


The tochka.net web portal
August 2011-Sept 2012
Photo editor, photo consultant with the news department

Responsibilities:

- Selecting, editing, uploading image materials for the media outlet’s news department.
- Providing the department’s journalists with consultations and training, working with photographers and Ukrainian and foreign image stocks.
- Developing and implementing original special topics and photo projects
- Creating 360-degree panoramas


The Profile magazine
July 2008-July 2011
Photo editor, photo department leader, photographer

The Levy Bereg newspaper
July 2008-December 2010
Photo editor, photo department leader


The 24 newspaper
December 2006-June 2008
Deputy photo editor, photo department leader, photographer

The Kievskie Vedomosti newspaper
November 2003-November 2006
Photographer, Senior Photographer, Acting Photo Editor, Photo Editor

Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University (2004-2011)
- Journalism (Master’s Degree)
- Publishing industry and editing (Bachelor's degree)
- Intense self-education every day

The Institute of Television and Radio of Ukraine
- TV camera operator training course

- Professionalism
- Flexible and creative approach to tasks in hand
- Exacting attitude toward results
- Being motivated to learn
- High social competence
- Ability to work calmly under pressure with a positive attitude

Angielski

Curator of three Human Factor photo exhibitions covering the EuroMaidan revolution