CLIENTS
Fair Food: Field to Table:Nahmias directed this three-part 20 minute web-based documentary, providing all photography, audio, editorial and creative design in this two-year collaboration with California Institute for Rural Studies aimed at both highlighting farm worker issues and best practices farmers and consumers around the nation can take to join the Fair Food movement.
Grantee Magazine:,The California Wellness Foundation engaged Nahmias to both write and shoot all the photography for a feature story which addressed the topic of how California nonprofits were weathering the economic downturn. Nearly a dozen of the foundation’s grantees and allies were interviewed for what become the cover story.
Food Forward: Nahmias directed this web video to highlight the urban fruit gleaning this new grassroots volunteer group does to fight hunger in Southern California.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center asked Nahmias to create a photo essay with text which would follow the trajectory of two liver transplant candidates from patient evaluation through surgery and recovery. This ten page story, which took six months to complete, became the centerpiece of Cedar’s DISCOVERIES magazine, as well as a stand alone photo exhibit used for education and public relations during National Donate Life Month.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation needed to create a promotional reel for the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, which would serve to highlight the organization’s global work around HIV & AIDS. Nahmias used AHF’s preexisting library of images and video clips, directed the voiceover narration (by Sheryl Lee Ralph) and the creation of an original score, and produced a 9 minute reel which can be updated as AHF’s needs and programs grow.
Liberty Hill Foundation in Los Angeles each year celebrates the social justice victories of their grantees with their Upton Sinclair Awards Dinner attended by over 800 people. In 2007 they asked Nahmias to create an emotional and uplifting opening reel for the event and in doing so being to build an archive of their grantee stories and voices for future reference.
OneLegacy Transplant Donor Network, dedicated to the life-saving and life-enhancing benefits of organ and tissue donation, brings together organ recipient and donor families each year for the unique purpose of creating a float for the annual Tournament of Roses Parade. In 2006 they engaged Nahmias to create a photo-documentary which was used to help brand this unique experience. Project images were used for everything from note cards, to an emotional photo-montage DVD which helps share the mission of their Donate Life campaign and share the emotional stories of OneLegacy clients.
American Cancer Society wanted to expand their photographic representation of diverse groups and cultures for a range of collateral materials used in their national campaigns. They turned to Nahmias to shoot their Relay for Life, an event designed to celebrate survivorship and raise money for research and programs. Nahmias used the event to not just shoot environmental portraits showing the unique interaction and diversity of ACS's survivors network and constituents, but also to tell the story about how this unique event comes together. ACS turns to Nahmias (on an on-going basis) to shoot any number of important events and special projects across the state.
California Community Foundation, a major hub of California philanthropy, is well known for their beautifully designed annual reports. In 2004, they wanted to do something different so they collaborated with Nahmias to create a book that relies heavily on bold images and minimal text to highlight ten very diverse individuals connected to the foundation, from donors and board members to recipients of scholarships and services the foundation funds. Nahmias shot short photo essays that tell the story of each person and how they define community.
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"The photography Rick has done for Cedars-Sinai is exquisite, thought-
provoking, and emotionally arresting. He manages to bring his own voice,
vision, and emotion to our projects, while adapting to the constraints
of shooting in a medical environment. There is no photographer I would trust more in an operating room!" | |
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Other Clients & Partnerships include
A Goodman: Good Ideas For Good Causes, Los Angeles, CA
AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA
American Lung Association, NY, NY
AOL, Sterling, VA
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles, CA
Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo, CA
California Institute for Rural Studies, Davis, CA
California State Department of Parks, Sacramento, CA
The California Wellness Foundation, Woodland Hills, CA
Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Environmental Health Project, Santa Barbara, CA
Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture, San Francisco, CA
City Club on Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, CA
City of Dallas, TX
Council for a Parliament of the World Religions, Chicago, IL
County of Santa Barbara, CA
County of Ventura, Workforce Investment Board, Ventura, CA
Doctors Without Borders, Los Angeles, CA
Dolores Huerta Foundation, Bakersfield, CA
Employment Development Department of the State of CA
Facing History & Ourselves, Los Angeles, CA
Farmworker Justice, Washington, DC
Fenton Communications, Washington, DC
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Government of Mexico
Jewish Museum of Florida, Miami, FL
Kansas State Department of Education, Wichita, KS
LA Theatre Works, Los Angeles, CA
LA Leadership Academy, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, CA
Los Angeles Unified School District, CA
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
National Farm Worker Alliance, Washington, DC
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA
New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, NM
Northwest Regional Primary Care Association, Seattle, WA
Olive Branches/Community Partners, Los Angeles, CA
Pacific Federal Insurance Corporation, Glendale, CA
The Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, PA
Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton, NJ
Representative Luis Gutierrez (IL), House of Representatives, United States Congress, Chicago, IL
Response Magazine, NY, NY
Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders, Santa Barbara, CA
Teatro Vision, San Jose, CAUnion Bank of California, Los Angeles, CAUniversity of Texas, El Paso, TX
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
University of California, Santa Barbara/Walter H. Capps Center, Santa Barbara, CA
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
The Wallace Center at Winrock Intl., Arlington, VA
Weingart Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI
Women Against Gun Violence, Los Angeles, CAYoung Communications, Los Angeles, CA