Category: Alumni Highlight

Joe is a ____ Photography + Media graduate. Since graduation, he has built a successful business focused on sports photography. “As a non-traditional student, my time at NVCC helped me to progress into a photographer. The in-classroom instructors, instructions, and assignments provided insight, creativity, and determination. It is with the utmost gratitude I have for NVCC, its photography curriculum, and campuses for how important the military community is received, respected, educated, and encouraged to fulfill ambitions and goals. ” In response to the ongoing pandemic and the effect on collegiate and professional sports, Joe is retraining in portrait photography in preparations for weddings and engagements business.

Check out more of Joe’s work on his website.

Will Reintzell is an Arlington, VA-based photographer specializing in environmental, studio, and corporate portrait photography.

Will’s work has been published in numerous consumer & trade publications, newspapers, corporate brochures, annual reports and corporate web sites including The Phillips Collection Museum, The Washington Post, Washington Jewish Week, Northern Virginia Review, The Clearing Inc., AirTower Networks, Industrious, Avodah, NASDA, The National Kidney Foundation and George Washington’s Mount Vernon Library to name only a few.

Corporate needs range from headshots and portraits to large-scale events such as product launches, headshot booths, fundraisers, business meetings, and company retreats. Running a client-friendly, service-oriented business Will believes that great creativity often is the result of team effort and values working closely with his clients.

Will is currently working on a film documentary about artist Peter Bremers (Holland) and his glass art project titled “Bunnies”.

“In April 2016, I decided to enroll in NOVA Community College’s photography program — I had purchased my first DSLR only a month before. The NOVA photography program — and of course its professors — put me on the fast track to become a successful photographer and business owner in just three years.

Six months after graduating summa cum laude in 2019, I opened my first portrait studio. This timeline would never have been possible without the NOVA photography program and its professors. ”

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