Photographer

Requisition : 47424

Organization

Vancouver is consistently ranked as one of the world’s most liveable and environmentally sustainable cities. Recognized among BC’s Top Employers and Canada’s Greenest Employers, the City of Vancouver is seeking colleagues who can help advance our core commitments to exceptional public service, sustainability, equity, and an outstanding quality of life for all residents.

With a strong commitment to being a City of Reconciliation, we invite you to join our dedicated team and become part of an innovative, inclusive, and engaging workplace. A career with the City of Vancouver and within the broader public service, offers meaningful work where you play a key role in ensuring equitable access to services, upholding ethical governance, and supporting the needs of citizens with integrity and dedication.

Main Purpose and Function

Reporting to the Manager, Design Services, the City Photographer provides professional photography and visual content creation services for the City of Vancouver under the direction of the Civic Engagement and Communications team. This position captures, edits, organizes and maintains high-quality still photography for use across City digital channels, media materials, publications, campaigns, events and internal communications. The role supports timely, accessible and brand-aligned visual storytelling that helps communicate City programs, services, initiatives and events to the public and employees.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Plans, captures and edits brand compliant professional photography for use on City digital channels, social media, websites, publications, presentations, media materials and internal communications.
• Provides brand compliant event photography for City events, announcements, openings, Council-related activities, community events and other civic initiatives.
• Captures portraits, environmental photography, project photography, community images and other visual assets that support communications plans and campaigns.
• Works with communications staff and internal clients to understand project goals, visual requirements, timelines and intended audiences.
• Provides creative advice on photography approaches, shot lists, image selection and visual storytelling.
• Ensures photography is aligned with City brand, accessibility standards, consent requirements and communications objectives
• Edits, exports, resizes and prepares images for multiple platforms, including web, social media, print and presentations.
• Maintains an organized photo library, including naming conventions, metadata, permissions, consent records and archival systems.
• Supports urgent and time-sensitive photography needs, including rapid turnaround for media, social media and public communications.
• May coordinate with external photographers or contractors, providing City brand and art direction as required.
• Monitors trends and best practices and trends in photography and digital asset management.
• Performs related work as required.

Qualification

Education and Experience:

A diploma in photography, visual communications, digital media communications or a related discipline plus considerable experience providing photography services in an agency, media, public sector, corporate or in-house communications environment or an equivalent combination of training and experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Considerable knowledge of photography principles, methods, techniques, equipment and tools.
• Considerable knowledge of preparing photography for digital communications channels, including web and social media.
• Knowledge of digital asset management, including consent, privacy, copyright, records management, meta-data, and image archiving practices.
• Knowledge of digital platform…