Born
and raised in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Nijme Rinaldi Nun is a longtime
resident of New Orleans, where she has had a long and varied career
as a photographer and photojournalist.
Nijme earned a B.A. from the University in New Orleans, where
she began to define and hone her style and sensibility as a photography
major. She continued her studies at Louisiana State University,
where she began to exhibit her work and earned an M.F.A. in photography.
She later returned to teach at LSU as an adjunct professor of
photography.
After working as an assistant to renowned commercial photographer
Bevil Knapp, Nijme’s career took a more expansive turn.
She began working extensively with private clients and developed
a body of work that touched on numerous subjects from portraiture
to commercial subjects such as fashion, jewelry, food and interiors.
At the same time, she was exhibiting her fine art work in New
Orleans at such venues as d.o.c.s. Gallery and Hansen Gallery.
Nijme soon branched into magazine photography and photojournalism.
As a freelance photographer, her work has appeared locally in
such publications as St. Charles Avenue, Louisiana Life, New Orleans
Magazine, Where New Orleans and Where Y’At? Magazine. She
was also the principal photographer for West Indies Publishing,
an Antigua-based company for which she made frequent trips to
the Caribbean. Her work for WIP appears in numerous in-flight
and destination magazines including Life in Antigua, Altitude,
SunRise, Grenadine Air Alliance Magazine, Mustique Airways Magazine,
Life in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and others.
Since 2000, Nijme has been the staff photographer for The Louisiana
Weekly, an 80-year-old African-American newspaper that occupies
a singular place on the New Orleans media landscape. Nijme’s
work there has covered a wide range of subject matter, and her
photos of New Orleans’ historic jazz landmarks, which were
collected as part of the paper’s series “Jazz Lived
Here,” will appear in a book version of the series slated
to be published by Ivan R. Dee in 2006.
Nijme’s freelance work for numerous clients has taken her
around the world, and she continues to embrace new and challenging
assignments and to expand her work’s vocabulary. Following
the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, she quickly rebounded with
an exhibit of her more recent work, and she continues her prolific
output.
Michael
Depp
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| EDUCATION |
| 1995 |
Master
of Fine Arts, Photography
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA |
| 1991 |
Bachelor
of Arts in Fine Arts, Major in Photography
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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| 2000-Present |
Staff
Photographer, Louisiana Weekly Newspaper
Founded in 1926, the Louisiana Weekly is one of the oldest
family owned African-American newspapers in the United States.
As the only staff photographer her duties have been to cover
everything from visits from presidential candidates, ACORN
protests, police brutality cases, to small community events
that otherwise would not have a voice. |
| 1997-Present |
Freelance
Photographer, Photographing for several local, national
and international magazines and private clients. The projects
include social events, food, jewelry, portraits, traveling
assignments to the Caribbean, conferences in Hawaii, and Europe |
| Spring
2002 |
Adjunct
Professor L.S.U., Baton Rouge, Art 2995, Basic
Photography. Teaching the basic concepts and techniques
of black and white photography, including camera mechanics
and darkroom processes, with emphasis on photography as
a visual art.
Adjunct
Professor L.S.U., Baton Rouge, Art 2996, Intermediate
Photography. To continue the exploration of basic photographic
principles utilizing specific subject matters and expanded
darkroom techniques. |
| 1997-1999 |
Photographer
Assistant, commercial photographer Bevil Knapp.Managing
office and studio, performing all darkroom duties and assisting
with equipment and lighting on location assignments, in town,
offshore and across the United States. |
| 1996 |
Instructor,
Art 101, Nunez Community College, Chalmette, LA. Teaching
the elements of design as they pertain to the third dimension. |
| 1995 |
Instructor,
Art 240, Art 110, Nunez Community College, Chalmette, LA.
Teaching the history of art from the pre-historic through
the Gothic periods, and a two-dimensional studio art class
emphasizing the visual elements of art and the principles
of design.
Instructor, Art 2995, Louisiana State University,
B. R, LA. Teaching photography as an expressive art form and
basic technical information. Teaching camera controls and
their creative potential, and exploring the concept of a fine
art photograph. |
| 1993-1995 |
Instructor,
Darkroom Techniques, L.S.U. Mini-Courses, B.R, LA. Teaching
basic photographic principles and darkroom techniques in the
summer to gifted high school students. |
| 1993-1995 |
Photography
Graduate Assistant, Louisiana Cooperative Extension
Service, L. S. U. Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA. Assistant
to primary photographer for Extension AG Center events. Responsible
for all black and white processing, custom printing and copy
stand work for hundreds of faculty members and researchers. |
| 1991-1992 |
Photographer,
Hawaii Family Photographers, Houston, TX. Louisiana photographer
for the Houston based company. Traveled throughout Southwestern
Louisiana photographing families. |
REFERENCES
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Tom
Neff, Photography Professor, Louisiana State University,
B.R.
Photo Dept. (225) 270-7084
tneff@lsu.edu |
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Renette
Dejoie-Hall, Executive Editor, Louisiana Weekly
(504) 613-4115
rdh@louisianaweekly.com |
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Jerri
Cullinan, Owner Jerrico Events
(502) 777- 4863
jerricoevents@cox.net |
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