Timothy D.J. Tovey Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information: Tim Tovey, BA, ARPS8 Goverseth TerraceFoxhole St AustellCornwallPl26 7XA Tel: 01726 822891

Mob/Cell: 07762 02 6491 | Tdjtovey@gmail.com | www.timtovey.com (Site Pasword: s@ycheese)

Most Relevant Education:Upper Second class (2:1) honours degree In Digital Photography

Awarded by the University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, 2014. (The University of Huddersfield was Awarded No. 1 Mainstream University in the country at the 2014 ‘THE AWARDS’ and boasts one of the top 5 Universities for Photography in the country)

Merit/Distinction in Media BTEC in Television and Film Production, Cornwall Collage, St Austell.

(Analogue & Chemical) Photography A Level – Cornwall Collage, St. Austell. Media GCSE – Fowey Community College.

(Below: Self-portrait taken with Mamiya DM 33 Mediumformat with (Mamiya) leaf digital back at the University of Huddersfield studio)

Young professional in high-end studio work. Degree education allowed Three years’ experience in a fully equipped £500,000 studio in which an excellent familiarity with flash equipment was gained alongside a honed ability to balance light (outside or inside a studio environment). Thus, an excellent knowledge of Bowens, Prophoto, Hensel lighting systems, pocket wizards’ transceivers and Ellenchrome studio strobe lighting were ascertained. Experienced with multiple genres of Digital and Analogue photography and printing, especially proficient with digital Nikon cameras ranging from the entry level to the semi-professional (D40 – D800e). Experienced with large and medium format in both analogue (Mamiya/Hasselblad TLR & Medium Format SLR) and digital (Mamiya DM33 Medium Format Mamiya Leaf digital back, evidenced left). Adept in Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop, I am completely

aware of importance of commercial photography quality control: Very media literate, understands and knows how to plan shoots to match a target audience to a deadline. Understands audience, understands mood boards and shoot planning and has excellent experience in sales and studio management after running Princess Cruises onboard studio ‘The Platinum Studio by Joe Craig’. It was with this studio that I learned to run my own business and was my most defining role to date [see below for more information]. Princess cruises has now added to my experiences by adding, Fuji Mini-Lab printing machines. I am an experienced

- “Tim has been dedicated, thoughtful, and has always taken it upon himself to ask questions or seek clarity on anything he has been uncertain about. Tim is very conscious about meeting the needs of the client” - Kay Parry, Our voice project.

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sea farer: Five 6-month, 7 Day a week, 91 hours per week contracts (None EU Registered ship) all with Princess Cruises. This has let me accumulate a total of 30 months at sea, as a result I am someone who is very** used to (and very comfortable) travelling long distance and to and from different countries all over the world thus I have excellent cultural awareness after working with 74 nationalities at any one time. Princess cruises also provided in-house training for basic fire-fighting & fire safety, crowd control, environmental protection, social media privacy, data protection, body language, as well as in depth sales training to name a few.

Please Visit www.timtovey.com to see the full range of my work from the past 10 years.

Personality:

I am an emotionally intelligent and empathic people person who enjoys observing the psychology of expression – I love to understand people’s stories, I want to understand what makes them who they are and tell that story within my photography. It’s why I am passtionate portraiture and creating the best portraits that express that person’s idiosyncratic nature, the ‘punctum’ of what makes them, them. I am a creative thinker, adept with the ability to comprehend and deconstruct briefs in a pressured environment to a professional standard within a limited time frame. I am focused on quality and obtaining results. I am tenacious yet friendly and if cruise ships have taught me anything it is how to handle stress. I am motivated by a position that challenges me to be my best and hone my practise. Before working-in the fast-paced customer facing, high-demand five-star excellence environment, I had over three years’ experience in customer orientated positions such as shop assistants and tourist information centre’s (full experience in such matters are listed on the last page of this document). It should be noted I have been a telesales marketer also. My personal interests other than photography include guitar, singing, poetry, and adventure motorcycling. I recently completed a 8500 (not a typo) drive to central Russia via Latvia & Turkey. I have lots of experience also of performing on stage which has made me very comfortable with the public and public speaking. I have also been rigorously trained in crowd control.

Experience: One year as ‘Master Photographer’ (Cut short due to Covid) with Platinum Studio by Joe Criag (Hosted by Princess Cruises on board their ships). This

was a full-time position that granted me a double in salary as well as a double in responsibilities. As staff photographer I was expected to achieve a target on average of $3000(USD) a cruise. As Platinum Studio artist I was expected to achieve an average revenue of

$11,000(USD) to $25,000(USD) in a cruise. Average cruise was 7 days. My highest earning cruise came to $17,000 at 120% over target. On my last 6-month tour of Duty, the platinum studio asked me to make a total of $235,000(USD) – I achieved a +19.6% over target with a total of $275,000 in those 6 months. (Please refer to my Ships Appraisal below written by my manager as a reference to my sales abilities). My role as you can imagine heavily relied on sales, however, these sales were easy when I shot the photographs to our exceptional standard. We marketed the Platinum studio as a “Bespoke and Luxury, Fine-Art Photography experience that captures the essence of the subject in a unique way”. This was no faint-hearted role as I was especially trained by Joe Craig (an internationally renowned photographer) in his studio in Dexter, Missouri, USA. I was the Photographer, editor, PR Manager and Studio Manager all rolled into one. On average I had 20-30 clients a cruise. My biggest sale from a single client was over $7000. Under me was a team of upto 11 Photographers that I slowly learned to manage and make my bookings for me (alongside my own). I was responsible in training them in all things Platinum Studio and motivating them to keep booking for the studio. Average clients were couples & families celebrating something significant and we specialized in classical head-shot portraiture with a twist (Literally, usually). See here Joe’s Craigs website: http://www.joecraig.com/. This is the standard of work that I was required to create.

Princess Cruises - Sea fearing “Staff Photographer”. I have received two promotions within the position, rising from “level 1 photographer” to level 3 (Of 5) – A further promotion to Platinum Studio by Joe craig halted this numeric rise: My duties as a ships

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photographer included but not limited to - taking pictures of guests whilst on board within a five star Hotel setting, high-end customer service role whilst making sales and meeting targets in the photo-gallery, up-selling every product to gain the maximum revenue from each sale, identifying prime ‘target-audience’ guests and convincing them to attend photo-shoots in our high-end studio – Platinum Studio by Joe Craig, “Walk-around” Mid-range photoshoots around the ship, occational 2nd camera wedding photography. I also had leadership responsibilities as I was expected to train the staff under me and set them a good example. I was classed as a Junior supervisor. (November 2016-September 2018)

Multiple (freelance) contracts with Lumiere’s Drama Company working with children to promote the company as well as photographing events such as to award ceremonies. This included professional standard family portraits of guests entering, shot with portable strobe heads. (http://www.lumieresactsingdanceacademy.co.uk/, most of the black and white work was shot by me) (2014)

Over 20+ individually arranged Portfolio Photography shoots both in studio and on Location working with models and products alike both TFP and paid. (On-going.)

Product Photography for Small Huddersfield Boutique Fade A clothing photographing products on a Mannequin, work published onto Fade-A Clothing Website. (2013)

3 month Internship Documentary project for Kirklees Council’s ‘Our Voice’ Project, which focused on giving children 12 and up a voice in their community; role included documenting the activities of the children in a fly on the wall manner for the means of a website and publications. (2012-2013)

Free-lance night club photography in Manchester and Halifax; role involved obtaining sales, shameless club promotion, and the ability to thrive in loud social environment that demanded emphasis on customer service. Role required exceptional social skills as well as the ability to perform well in a stressful environment. (2011-2014)

Night-Club Photographer in Newquay for Safelight Images which included standard night club photography roles (2010)

References

----Character references on the following pages----

Stuart Ross Hudson BA(hons)Business & Brand Director For Princess Cruises onboard Operations(Ex-Photo Manager)16 Kitchener Street High Barnes Sunderland SR4 7QJ

Tel: +447956863342Email: stuartrosshudson@hotmail.com

Kay Parry – Our Voice ProjectBrian Jackson HouseNew north ParadeHuddersfield HD1 5JPT: 01484 223603F: 01484 223601E: Kay.parry@kirklees.gov.uk

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Extra References

2019 Princess Cruises Ship ‘Coral Princess’ Final Appraisal:

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Guest Personal Recommendation Cards (I have 35 more of these as extra evidence of customer service):

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Certificates (Originals can be provided):

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Other Experience:Customer service, Sales & Retail Experience:

Bodmin Town Council Tourist InformationShire Hall, Mount Folly, Bodmin, Cornwall PL31 2DQ

Information Assistant, April 2015 – August 2015

This was a complicated meshed role that included being a Shop assistant, tourist information assistant, tour guide/usher and receptionist. The main duties included: Advising tourists and members of the local area on activities and attractions within Bodmin and Cornwall, using the best of my conversational customer service skills to pick-out and ascertain subjective areas of interest relevant to each individual. To make every customer smile as much as the last by creating an extremely welcoming environment that complimented the tourism awards given to the Bodmin Tourist Information centre. Serving customers on the old-style till. Lifting heavy boxes in and out of storage that contained leaflets and reading materials. Public speaking necessary when it fell on me to be an usher & tour guide for the ‘The Courtroom Experience’ which involved memorising facts of the 1844 charlotte Dymond trial, relying them comprehensively and in an interesting manner to the public in what totals as a 30 minuet long introduction to a film and animatronic play, then taking customers down into cells and talking about them, and those who might have been held there. Largest group I ‘lectured’ too was a class of 35 German students. Another duty was Administrative, in essence I was part the reception for Bodmin Town council, so I answered phones, took messages, issued parking permits, received parking fines to be entered through the till, escorted people to placed they needed to be, took commissions for gallery sales and recorded them, took banner bookings and recorded them, as well booked people through an agency website onto National Express. We were also obligated to respond to emails within 12 hours of them being sent, sent out post via the franking system all recorded by

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hand. During my time at the Information Centre I was taught confidentiality and privacy regulations, i.e. how to responsibly and legally accept credit card payments from customers as well as cheques. I was taught to open up in the morning which included maintaining a coffee machine, opening a safe and putting money in a till, I also was taught to close up which included being taught to cash-up at the end of the day. I was also sent on courses that dealt with equal rights and managing people from other countries, and of poor mental health – these courses taught me how to better interface with people with such handicaps, raising awareness and where appropriate, creating opportunity.

SportsDirect37 Pydar steet, Truro, Cornwall. TR1 2AY

Retail Assistant . November 2014 - May 2015

Main duties included: Using teamwork in taking & distributing deliveries. Serving customers in a confident, friendly, approachable manner; always making sure the customer is listened to. Serving on shoe section which involves quickly negotiating a complicated stock room ordered in what is an industrial version of a library system. Serving on tills. Meeting sales targets. Tidying. Other duties include checking stock with PDA, using tills occasionally, Up selling to customers 5 star products to meeting KPI sales values and maximize profitability; Previous months whilst working full time I have been one of the highest KPI sales performers working at the Truro branch. Other duties include taking customers to products around the store, advising customers on products, and maintaining health and safety standards around the store. Keeping shelf’s stocked and looking neat and tidy.

Angel CommunicationsPar moor rd, Par, Cornwalll. PL24 2SQ

Telesales representative 2010 - 2011

Duties included: Cold calling previous customers toward asking if they’d be interested in a premium offer of a Holiday Wine package for bargain price. Customer service skills essential, conversational skills a must and manners were to be impeccable. Ability to confidently objection handle was a must as well as the Ability to think outside the box to get customer interest was needed as well as high standard of computer processing with word, excel, and PowerPoint and specific telesales software. Met national minimum wage.

Natures Kitchen

47 Fore Street, St. Austell Cornwall, PL25 5PY

Shop Assistant July – August 2010

Duties included: Volunteer role. Serving customers at the deli, weighing and pricing spices, pricing products, cash handling, shelf stacking, being friendly and knowing when and when not to advice customers with their purchases, answering all the queries customers had, Sweeping up and keeping the shop clean, as well as organization skills in packing up after every shift.

Safelight Images 84 Bernard Street, Brynmill, Swansea, SA2 0DT

Nightclub photographer 2009 - 2010

Duties included: Taking photographs with the ability to self-motivate as well as literally work by yourself as occasionally it would just be me in the club running the practical side of the business. This meant in order to keep things running effectively and smoothly a high level of customer service skills were a must, as well as the ability to talk calmly to customers under pressure keeping up at all times with the demands and orders of key-rings, prints, and other memorabilia. All of this was combined with the ability to “work the floor” in terms of selling and advertising the product under a noisy alcohol fuelled environment until up to times of about 1 to 2am. Just above national minimum wage.