Having grown up around photography, I have a lot of experience in the art form.

About ten years ago I began some light freelance photography, A few years ago, I was commisioned for some artistic BDSM photos and it spurred me to transition into a business to allow me to start funding my art form, and hopefully to set this up as a full-time career.

I became affiliated with some local charity organizations, and began shooting cosplayers, as this is my preferred art form. I enjoy working with costume artists to achieve the look and feel they strive for in order to showcase and capture their workmanship in an artistic format.

My work has been featured in Magazine and Newspaper formats.

In 2017 alone, I covered seventeen conventions and over a dozen charity events in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas.

I am credentialed as an official press photographer for Fan Expo Dallas (2019, 2018), Dallas Fan Days in Irving (2018, 2017), SoonerCon in Oklahoma City (2019, 2018, 2017), Sausomecon in Kansas City (2017), Rally of the Realms in OKC (2017), New World Comic Con in OKC (2017), SoCon in Bixby (2017), Cosplay Con & Anime Experience in Little Rock (2017), Tokyo in Tulsa in Tulsa (2018, 2017), as well as having covered Planet Comicon in Kansas City (2017), Walker Stalker in Tulsa (2017), Medieval Fair in Norman (2017, 2016), Collector Con in Tulsa (2017), College Con in Norman (2018, 2017), and many more.

I was also a guest and panelist at SoonerCon (2019, 2018), and Wizard World OKC (2017).

I have over 30,000 social media followers. My Facebook page alone had over 17,000 engagements from over 5600 unique visitors in the last week. I am well known and respected in the local Cosplay, Comic, Pop Culture, and BDSM/erotic art communities. I have large advertising influence for the cons that I attend.

I would like to bring together the charity organizations, volunteers, and costume artists that I regularly work with in order to better serve the local communities in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, while also working to promote acceptance in diversity.

My best know project was titled "Cosplay Pride" and was a major project to raise awareness and celebrate LGBT+ Rights and Culture in comics. This was a series of 30 photoshoots that ended in 3 photos a day being released every day in June, 2018. This project was a smashing success, garnering attention from character creators, artists, writers, and actors, and brought a lot of much-needed attention to the LGBTQ+ characters throughout comics.

You can see my work at:

www.instagram.com/BeardedOkiePhotography

www.facebook.com/beardedokiephotography

www.beardedokiephotography.com

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