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A Behind the Scenes Look at Cheryl Ingram’s Portrait

Jane Sherman
Author: Jane Sherman
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Whenever I work with Brandon Hill I know he’s going to push us in an unexpected direction. For the portrait of diversity expert Cheryl Ingram (“Cheryl Ingram Brings Diversity Training to the Modern Workplace”) he enlisted his talented intern, Rihana Jones (pictured above), to create a multilayered, hand-painted backdrop. Knowing I wanted a nod to the “lens” through which we all see the world, Brandon researched and learned how to achieve a fractured effect by shooting through the beveled lids of a certain brand of chocolates. Yes, a box of chocolates. Like in Forrest Gump. And as with that packaged confection, with Brandon you never know what you’re going to get. But it’s going to be great.

Published in the Destination Dining issue of Seattle Met.




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Jane Sherman
Jane Sherman
Art Director Jane Sherman designs covers, features, and various departments in Seattle Met. One of her many joys in life is working closely with talented illustrators and photographers to create images that enhance and complement the magazine’s editorial content. She was born in Minneapolis—it’s a lot like Seattle but flatter, and decidedly snowier—and lived there until moving to Seattle in 2007. She cut her teeth in editorial design doing the weekly grind, first as associate art director at City Pages in Minneapolis and eventually producing hundreds of covers—one a week for several years—at Seattle Weekly (some of them even won an award or two).  In her spare time you might find Jane at the dog park with her coonhound Watson, taking a pottery class, drawing, or more likely taking a nap.