Casey Killen Feldkamp, owner

Casey Killen Feldkamp is a 22-year-old master’s degree student studying Journalism at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Her education has been under the tutelage of professors such as renowned journalism ethicists Deni Elliot and Jay Black, journalist Mike Killenberg, former-CNN correspondant and author Tony Silvia, documentary photographer Beth Reynolds, former St. Petersburg Times technology training editor Debbie Wolfe, digital media designer Xiaopeng Wang, and former news reporter and editor Bob Dardenne. Through the college's relationship with the Poynter Institute, Casey has also taken part in seminar classes with various Poynter staff, faculty and visiting lecturers. She has been a member of the National Press Photographers Association since 2006.

Casey discovered her love of photography at a young age while messing around with her mom's 35mm camera at an airshow. It was that love of photography that instigated her to focus her studies on photojournalism while earning her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication.  She worked as photographer for the university newspaper, The Crow’s Nest, for one year before becoming its editor in chief in 2007. Her responsibilities there included managing all content, writing and editing print and Web content, capturing photo stories, selling and creating advertisements, managing the publication budget, and overseeing a crew of more than 10 reporters, editors, photographers and designers.

In her time as a photographer, Casey has interviewed and shot aerial photography with the Red Baron Pizza Squadron, an aerobatic stunt group featuring original 1940s biplanes. She has also covered air festivals, interviewed and photographed Flogging Molly at a live performance, and photographed the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg two years in a row. Casey also works as a wedding and portrait photographer, and has shot photo documentaries around the Bay area. She is currently shooting, producing, and editing a video documentary about what it is like to live as a medeival knight in a traveling renaissance faire.

Casey works as a staff assistant at St. Petersburg College and is responsible for publicizing many of the college's cultural events. She has photographed dance performances for CoMotion Dance Theater, the resident modern dance ensemble of St. Petersburg College, for the past three years. Currently, she is shooting faculty portraits and publicity photographs for the college's new Music Industry Recording Arts degree. Casey's work has been published in The Crow's Nest, The Oracle, the USF Department of Journalism and Media Studies Web site, the St. Petersburg College Web site, USF St. Petersburg Partners in Progress, as well as other Web sites and publications.