Detroit Photographic Company

Roy Feldman • Photographer

I am a editorial, event, documentary photographer and videographer working in the Detroit area. My commercial clients include the Ford Motor Company, General Motors, the Detroit Free Press, Detroit Public Television, PBS, the Kresge Foundation and the US Department of Energy. I co-produce the DPTV (PBS) program "Detroit Performs" an Emmy winning weekly television magazine. I have been the "official" photographer for the North American Auto Show, SAE and the Ford Motor Company supplying deadline sensitive media to national outlets.

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Roy Feldman has the eye to catch a shot as well as the heart to tell a story. Roy’s videos for the Emmy winning Detroit Public TV’ “Detroit Performs” series reveal the motivations that drive an artist through an effective mix of video, still photography and judicious editing
— Dave Devereaux, Senior Vice President, Media Platforms, Detroit Public TV. Station Manager, WRCJ
Roy Feldman is not your typical guy with a camera. He differentiates himself with his impressive ability to combine a sophisticated eye for aesthetically appropriate composition with his technical knowledge of his chosen mediums. Roy remains our photographer/videographer of choice producing videos and photos for our organization due to his uncompromising drive for capturing and delivering the perfect message in a graphically pleasing and effective way.
— Robert C. Levy, President Robert Levy Associates, Inc.
“Roy Feldman serves our various business divisions by providing prompt, eye-catching photography, videography and complete editing services. He has captured company team members, grand openings, political events, editorial photographs in ways that give news stories, commercial projects and personal memories lasting impact.”
— Robert G Liggett, Jr. Chairman and Director of Big Boy Restaurants International, LLC.,

 

Assignments

Detroit Public Television/PBS - Co-Producer “Detroit Performs” a weekly program focused on the artists, musicians, and dancers in Detroit. Duties: select subjects, film, and interview subjects, edit to broadcast standards w/music and graphics. Contributor to "News Hour

General Motors, Navistar Defense, US Dept. of Energy (Midwest region), NA Auto Show, SAE official stills photographer” 

Big Boy,  Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation, Kresge Foundation - event video & stills.

Detroit Free Press- over 200 assignments. C & G Newspapers- over 1000 assignments

US Department of Energy/GM-A ten year multi-million dollar project to document sustainable transportation involved travel to locations in 20 different states and 2 countries video and stills coverage.

Ford Motor Company - staff photography position, PR and documentation including a 2-year project documenting the remaking of the Rouge Plant, documentation of the Ford family.

EDUCATION- attended (BFA) and taught at College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Photography Dept.

ORGANIZATIONS - White House Press Photographers, National Press Photographers

GALLERY -  Represented by M Contemporary  Art

     Individual showings at : Gallery Camille, Detroit; Michigan Design Center, Troy; M Contemporary, Ferndale; Oloman Gallery, Hamtramck

BOOKS- “The Ford Century” 10 Photographs; “Fossils in Light”- edited by Elizabeth Avedon.