JACKIE BLAIR

/contract creative

Owner of JACQART llc/photography & design
JACQART by Jackie Blair is a photography service which began to create visual artistry with an modern, elegant yet dreamy flair through portraiture. Since 2006, Jackie has been hired nationwide and internationally for weddings, portraits, photo-shoots as well as design clients. With a Bachelor's of educational experience in digital media imaging and graphic design, Jackie was wired as a self-made designer in brand identity and a variety of projects for print and web. She was then recruited to bring her decade of wedding industry experience and background in creative digital media to a Detroit event production & national rental company as their in house photographer and social media creative. Photographing rad event set ups, product imagery, and art direction on creative content to market both companies sub-brands as well as using social media to expand the reach of their products. More recently, after freelancing as a contract creative locally & diving into residential real estate projects, she has worked full time as a field research photographer for commercial real estate industry group. Using Photography, Aerial Drone (licensed for commercial), and 3D Reality tour tech, she worked to create media for a DC-based info group which is world leading in its industry for the most comprehensive database of data.

JACKIE BLAIR IS CURRENTLY commissioned for contract client photography for musicians, real estate, styled photo-shoots & events, including few destination weddings ( galleries by request). She currently has a huge passion for styled interiors, with interests in flip properties, AIRBNB decor styling, home staging, and welcomes all visually creative opportunities & partnerships- and loves to second shoot assist.

Film photographer founding Fine Art with A Focus/org
Fine Art with a Focus is a business organization, founded by film photographer Jackie Blair, who has been archiving her photography collections over the span of several years in order to give back with her artistry. Imagery from each collection of fine art film photography created from a city, region, or country, will be printed and sold in a specific collection to benefit a charity from the local area with 50% of sale profits. Large and small scale pieces available for gallery representation, benefit events, and pop up shops. Collections of artwork available in the shop and are undergoing release.

Current fawaf/org projects include nonprofit partnerships, photographing trips with a focus on scholarship sponsorship profile updates for NoChild.org with their three orphanages in Kenya (2013), and a recent trip to Nepal (2016) to assist girls at risk of human trafficking creating photographic profiles. Soon, she plans to work with another NGO to create more of her fine art film & photojournalism in Brazil as a fundraiser to benefit their anti-trafficking & education efforts.