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Jonathan Yonan

Kittery

Summary

I am currently working as an independent contractor for several publishing clients. I'm interested in expanding into to new areas with publishers I haven't worked with previously.


Friendly, knowledgeable, and comfortable working with designers, editors, and authors to find just the right content. I'm equally at home tracking costs and working with finance to stay within budget or negotiating fees with photo agencies and photographers.

Overview

36
36
years of professional experience

Work History

Photo Research Manager

Dinardo Design
01.2002 - 01.2025

I oversaw photo research, photo permissions/compliance, budgets, tracking for dozens of projects. Clients include Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Heinemann, Pearson, Zaner-Bloser, Benchmark, Delta Education, Nat Geo, Ranger Rick.


I worked closely with design, editorial, and finance - producing hundreds of books for all the major education publishers.

Photo Researcher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
06.1994 - 06.2001

In-house photo research for the School Division. Main focus was on Social Studies. Working closely with photo agencies, historical societies, museums, and independent photographers to find existing imagery for books.

Photo Editor

Picture Group
06.1989 - 01.1994

Edited and researched news photos for magazines and textbooks, representing the hundreds of photographers in the photo agency.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Communications- Radio/TV/Film

University of North Texas
Denton, TX
12-1984

Skills

  • Fluent with Adobe Creative, Microsoft Office, and various internal proprietary archiving and tracking systems used by educational publishers

Timeline

Photo Research Manager

Dinardo Design
01.2002 - 01.2025

Photo Researcher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
06.1994 - 06.2001

Photo Editor

Picture Group
06.1989 - 01.1994

Bachelor of Arts - Communications- Radio/TV/Film

University of North Texas