Brett Sykes
Lead Photo Editor at Getty Images
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Sykes is a seasoned lead photo editor with 14 years’ experience orchestrating editorial coverage of high-profile celebrity events and client commissions across London and worldwide. At Dave Benett Photos he manages teams of photographers and editors, driving rapid on-site selection, colour correction, captioning and delivery for outlets like the Evening Standard and Mail Online. Equally comfortable as a freelancer for Getty Images and as a digital retoucher, he blends creative craft with tight deadline discipline and client-facing project management. For the past five years he has also helped design and QA Caption Pro, a facial-recognition captioning tool that reflects his focus on workflow automation and speed-to-market. His background in photography and film production gives him a rare mix of technical, editorial and cinematic perspective that informs both image aesthetics and scalable post‑production systems.
14 years of coding experience
NYFA Filmmaker's Workshop, Cinematography and Film/Video Production, NYFA Filmmaker's Workshop, Cinematography and Film/Video Production at New York Film AcademyDirector's Assistant Training Program, Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Director's Assistant Training Program, Cinematography and Film/Video Production at Director's Guild of CanadaBachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Photography, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Photography at Utah Valley University
Github Skills (15)
byte10
rake10
akamai10
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rakefile8
ruby7
watir4
selenium2
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macos1
electron1
desktop1
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bretts/to_histogram
Nov 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 8 years
bretts/piez
May 2015 - Mar 2021
View image byte savings using Akamai Image Manager
Contributions:94 commits, 16 PRs, 74 pushes in 5 years 11 months
akamaibyteimage-viewsavings
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