United Press International (UPI)

UPI is a leading provider of news, photos and information via UPI.com and its licensing services. As a remote photo producer with UPI, I’m responsible for organizing images as they are filed, creating photo galleries of events and identifying stronger storytelling images for articles from UPI photo archives and public domain stock sites.

Before and After

One of my responsibilities is to select photographs to accompany digital stories either from the UPI photo archive or through public domain photo research. These comparisons display my selections in the After cells, reflecting my choices with efforts to select photos with stronger technical aspects or ethical sensibilities. With limited access the European Press Agency and stock sites, it’s up to my research to find images with public domain usage or from our own archive to run on UPI.com stories.

I approached the Sports Editor about swapping this image of U.S. Soccer player, Megan Rapinoe, in an effort to avoid perpetuating harmful stereotypes about angry women.

2020 Olympics

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Screen Shot 2021-09-05 at 8.46.29 AM.png — **Breath-taking images from Tokyo Olympics**

Thumbnail Photo by Richard Ellis/UPI

Screen Shot 2021-09-05 at 9.04.42 AM.png — **Tokyo Olympics: Scenes from Canada's win over U.S. in women's soccer**

Thumbnail Photo by Photo by Mike Theiler/UPI

Screen Shot 2021-09-05 at 9.03.44 AM.png — **Tokyo Olympics: Team USA takes gold in beach volleyball**

Thumbnail Photo by Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI

Screen Shot 2021-09-05 at 9.02.17 AM.png — **Faces of the Olympics: expressions from the Games**

Thumbnail Photo by Bob Strong/UPI

Screen Shot 2021-09-05 at 9.06.18 AM.png — **Tokyo Olympics: Moments from softball finals**

Thumbnail by Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI

Screen Shot 2021-09-05 at 9.03.03 AM.png — **Olympic ink: Athletes sporting tattoos**

Thumbnail Photo by Richard Ellis/UPI

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Selection of photo collections

As photos are filed through UPI or utilizing the UPI photo archive, I curate photo collections that live on the website and are featured on relevant stories on upi.com. Click on the headline to see the collection.

Screen Shot 2021-09-05 at 8.46.00 AM.png — **Scenes from the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan**

Thumbnail photo by Jack Holt/U.S. Central Command

Screen Shot 2021-09-05 at 8.46.14 AM.png — **'If you build it ...': Scenes from inaugural 'Field of Dreams' game**

Thumbnail Photo by Pat Benic/UPI

NASA's 16 women astronauts -- at least one likely to walk on moon

Thumbnail photo courtesy of NASA

Screen Shot 2020-08-21 at 8.17.24 AM.png — Moments from the virtual Democratic National Convention

Thumbnail photo by Photo by Brian Snyder/UPI

Screen Shot 2020-08-11 at 3.11.39 PM.png — Exploration of Mars through history

Thumbnail photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA

Screen Shot 2020-08-11 at 2.46.56 PM.png — The Kentucky Derby through the years

Thumbnail Photo by Frank Polich/UPI

Screen Shot 2020-08-11 at 2.53.03 PM.png — Muslim fashion on display at Cooper Hewitt museum in N.Y.

Thumbnail Photo by John Angelillo/UPI

Screen Shot 2020-08-11 at 2.44.33 PM.png — Scenes from a pandemic: World copes with COVID-19

Thumbnail Photo by Ismael Mohamad/UPI

Screen Shot 2020-08-11 at 2.40.25 PM.png — U.S. copes with COVID-19 pandemic

Thumbnail Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI

Screen Shot 2021-09-05 at 8.45.33 AM.png — **Scenes from California's Caldor Fire**

Thumbnail photo by Peter DaSilva/UPI

Screen Shot 2021-09-05 at 8.57.24 AM.png — **Former U.S. President Barack Obama turns 60: a look back**

Thumbnail Photo by Brian Kersey/UPI

Screen Shot 2021-09-05 at 8.51.45 AM.png — **Pictures of the Year: Top images from 2020**

Thumbnail Photo by Pat Benic/UPI

Screen Shot 2020-09-23 at 12.52.15 PM.png — Mourning Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Thumbnail Pool Photo by Andrew Harnik/UPI

Moments from Joe Biden's career

Thumbnail photo by UPI File

Screen Shot 2020-08-11 at 3.06.03 PM.png — Women heads of state from around the world

Thumbnail photo courtesy of the United Nations

Screen Shot 2020-08-11 at 2.45.53 PM.png — Stay-home orders draw demonstrations across U.S.

Thumbnail Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI

Out-of-this-world images from space

Thumbnail photo courtesy of NASA

Screen Shot 2020-08-11 at 2.50.51 PM.png — Hemingway watches, 'Dupont Emerald' on display at Christie's preview

Thumbnail Photo by John Angelillo/UPI

Screen Shot 2020-08-11 at 3.00.56 PM.png — 2019 Photos of the Year

Thumbnail Photo by John Angelillo/UPI

Screen Shot 2020-08-11 at 2.55.59 PM.png — Santas from around the world vacation in Jerusalem

Thumbnail Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI

Stock Research

When there isn’t an appropriate image in the UPI archive, I turn to public domain stock sites for photo research. Pixabay, Unsplash, Wikimedia Commons, and Flickr with commerical usage allowed, are my first stops for stock images for UPI.com stories.