Your Town At Work
Elevating Public Service Through Art
Authentic, candid photographs of municipal employees on the job
The Town of Andover was recently recognized at the Massachusetts Municipal Association Connect 351 event in Boston. Andover was one of just three communities statewide to receive a Kenneth Pickard Municipal Innovation Award. The Award recognizes Andover at Work, a volunteer photo project by local photographer David Whitney that shines a light on the important but often unseen work that Town employees do every day.
Benefits include:
Raising awareness of public services in your town through community photography exhibits
Boosting employee morale
Content for social media and publications
Educational material for schools and youth centers
A resource for recruitment
An image archive for town historical organizations
Consulting Services
I offer a range of consulting services, depending on your needs, to assist your community in successfully executing your own Your Town At Work project.
Training
Lessons learned and frameworks for scoping, designing, staffing and executing such a project
Coaching
Coaching of volunteer photographers as they work
Design
Assisting in the design of exhibits
Photographing
Photographing your workers
About the Artist
David Whitney
David Whitney is a Boston-area photographic artist with interests ranging from landscape to event photography, with a concentration in candid street and documentary image making. He has studied at the New England School of Photography in Boston and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work has been exhibited at numerous museums and galleries, including the Danforth Art Museum, The Griffin Museum of Photography, the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Lens Culture Portrait Awards, the Garner Center, the Essex Art Center, the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Bromfield Gallery, ASmith Gallery, Galatea Fine Art and Davis-Orton Gallery, where his “March for Our Lives” documentary portfolio was showcased. His work is also held in private collections. He is a member of Andover’s Public Art Committee and of the local arts groups the Andover Arts Alliance and Artists of Andover.
