Photographer M+C Saatchi Services · Washington DC

ABOUT M&C SAATCHI WORLD SERVICES

M&C Saatchi World Services is a full-service marketing company renowned for using commercial advertising to solve the world’s toughest challenges. World Services is a specialty branch of M&C Saatchi Group, and we provide strategic communications, behavior change, and marketing support to Public Sector clients with special emphasis on the US Federal Government and State, Local, Tribal, & Territorial leaders.

M&C Saatchi World Services US is seeking a highly skilled and versatile Photographer to create compelling, high-quality photography for communications, outreach, and stakeholder engagement initiatives. Working across locations, events and planned shoots, this role will capture real people, environments and experiences in ways that can strengthen audience engagement, enhances brand presence, and advance mission objectives.

M&C Saatchi World Services is seeking an accomplished Photographer to create distinctive, technically excellent photography for strategic communications, outreach, and engagement initiatives across a diverse portfolio of federal programs. You will work independently on location to photograph people, events, and real-world activities, often responding to changing conditions without extensive on-site support. You will also work as part of a wider production team on more complex shoots, collaborating with creative, communications, account, and stakeholder engagement teams to deliver against an agreed brief and visual approach.

The ideal candidate combines a distinctive creative eye with deep technical knowledge of camera lenses, lighting, exposure, composition, contrast, color and digital image production. They can make strong creative and technical decisions independently, adapt to different subjects and environments, and consistently produce polished, publication-ready work. This is a hybrid role supporting a federal client environment. The ideal candidate will live in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region and must be available to travel domestically for photography assignments.

• Independently capture high-quality, publication-ready photography at public locations, workplaces, leadership engagements, live events, and other on-location assignments.
• Plan and execute photography across environmental and formal portraiture, documentary and editorial photography, live events, campaign and lifestyle imagery, and promotional content.
• Translate creative and communications briefs into an appropriate photographic approach, including shot lists, location and equipment requirements, lighting plans and practical production considerations.
• Select and operate appropriate professional camera bodies, lenses, lighting, grip and supporting equipment, adapting exposure, focus, composition, color and lighting decisions to each subject, location and intended use.
• Use photography to communicate complex ideas, document impact and create coherent visual narratives that support audience and communications objectives.
• Collaborate with communications, creative, strategy, and stakeholder engagement teams to identify visual storytelling opportunities and support content development efforts.
• Edit, retouch, and optimize imagery for digital, print, social media, presentation, and multimedia applications.
• Ensure photography aligns with creative and brand standards, technical and quality standards, and provide accurate captions, contextual information and image descriptions where needed to support accessible publication.
• Prepare photography assets for publication and distribution across multiple channels and platforms.
• Ingest, back up, catalogue and archive photography using agreed folder structures, file-naming…