2022 Recap: Institutional Media and Documentation in Practice

2022 was a strong year for my work supporting museums, foundations, and professional organizations with production and post-production services built around one goal: clear documentation that remains useful after the moment has passed.

Across projects, the format changed, but the standard stayed the same. Capture cleanly, edit with intention, and deliver organized files teams can retain and reuse.

Event Documentation and Editorial Support

One highlight was my ongoing partnership with William Sarris Productions, including a project for ISG. We filmed live event coverage and shaped it into usable, polished pieces for digital distribution. For organizations, this kind of work is about more than highlights. It is about creating a clear record of what happened, with deliverables that can be referenced and repurposed.

Here is some of the footage we captured:

I’m proud to have supported ISG’s video-on-demand library as an editor for their live events. The work required consistent standards and fast turnaround, with edits delivered cleanly and on schedule so the team could publish confidently. It was a privilege to contribute to a professional organization that values dependable production.

Long-Form Oral History Interviews

Another highlight, through my ongoing partnership with William Sarris Productions, was traveling to record interviews for the Wireless History Foundation. We worked in San Francisco, Kansas, Denver, and Washington, DC, capturing long-form conversations with key figures in the wireless industry.

This kind of interview-led documentation is built for clarity, context, and long-term use, not just immediate release.

It was a privilege to meet leaders like Dan Hesse, who held senior leadership roles at AT&T Wireless and later served as CEO of Sprint, and Neera Singh, co-founder of LCC International, a wireless engineering firm.

I edited the induction videos for both from the interviews we captured, shaping the footage into clear, well-paced narratives that preserve professional history and context.

Take a look at the induction videos I edited from the footage we shot:

Alongside the interviews, there were lighter moments that came with being on the road together, like spending time with Neera Singh in Vail, Colorado, and hearing Dan Hesse share stories about his friendship with Neil Young. Those small details never become the point of the work, but they do add context and humanity to the documentation.

Museum Digital Programming

We also continued our ongoing work with the Barnum Museum and its YouTube programming. I support the channel through production and post production, helping shoot, edit, and publish content designed for public education and long-term access.

That includes Showman’s Shorts, a series recognized with a Regional Emmy nomination.

Audio Documentary and Podcast Production: Becoming Barnum

That work translated into real momentum. The channel grew to more than 2.3K subscribers, and we launched a new audio project, the Barnum Museum podcast Becoming Barnum.

Becoming Barnum explores the life of P. T. Barnum through primary-source material, including a collection of 750 pages of letters he wrote while traveling in Europe during the 1840s. The series uses those letters to examine Barnum not just as a public figure, but as a husband, father, and businessman, while also tracing his mentorship of the child performer General Tom Thumb. It is an audio documentary approach designed to add context, structure, and narrative clarity to archival material.

Across both formats, the goal was the same: make the Museum’s stories easier to access, easier to understand, and easier to retain over time.

Aerial Support in a Different Context

I also had the opportunity to collaborate with Abide Videography, owned by my friend and former colleague Luke Chase, on a handful of local projects, including weddings.

My role on these projects was drone coverage, providing aerial footage that added context and visual variety in a way that stayed unobtrusive and usable in the finished piece.

While this work sits outside my core institutional focus, it reinforced the same fundamentals that carry across all documentation projects: clear capture, careful operation on-site, and clean, organized delivery.

Overall, it was a positive experience collaborating with Luke and Abide Videography, and I’m glad to have that drone work in my toolkit when a project calls for it.

DarkWaters run deep in 2022

Will, Luke, and I also had the opportunity to reconnect with a longtime relationship from our Firelight Media days by working again with GE. It was a pleasure to support their team and contribute to a project with people we have known and trusted for years.

It was genuinely good to be back in that environment as a team, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with Will and Luke. Long-term creative partnerships matter. They make the work smoother, the standards higher, and the results more consistent.

Context Matters

As the year closed, what I felt most was appreciation for the trust behind these projects. Whether the work was event coverage, interview-led documentation, museum programming, audio documentary editing, or drone capture, the responsibility was the same: create material that is clear, usable, and delivered with care.

I take that responsibility seriously. My job is not just to produce something that looks good in the moment. It is to help clients walk away with organized, dependable assets they can reference and reuse, with editorial choices that protect clarity and context.

If you’re working on a preservation, municipal, or nonprofit initiative and need documentation that supports long-term use, I’m open to discussing an approach that fits your timeline and produces deliverables your team can retain and reuse. For details, Get in Touch.