Charles Beckwith is a commercial artist with experience across radio, television, dramatic feature filmmaking, documentary filmmaking, fashion photography, Off-Broadway theater, and fiction writing.
His documentaries have featured a wide variety of subjects, including everything from womens' surfing (East Coast Wahine Surf Championships), following multinational corporations into India (Re:Solve Mumbai), to a film about the lifespan of a film festival (Cucalorus at 10). From 2001-2002, Charles produced a popular college comedy/variety television series called Uncommon Variety on UNC Wilmington Television, for which he wrote and directed over half the comedy sketches in the series.
He graduated from UNC Wilmington in 2002 with a BFA in Creative Writing. In 2005 he left graduate school to move to New York and become a fashion photographer. "I Like Fog," his first solo gallery show, premiered at Plan B in the East Village in 2006.
Film and photography clients include Herman Miller Inc., Harvard University, UNC Wilmington, The Brand Experience Lab, Microsoft, Richard Saul Wurman, Urban Outfitters, The Design Management Institute, EUE/ScreenGems Studios, F!ND Magazine, Talent In Motion Magazine, Go NYC Magazine, 11211 Magazine, and several of the world's leading modeling agencies in New York and Milan, Italy.
In 2008 he directed Robert Caisley's "Three Wishes," as part of The Curan Repertory Company's Notes From The Underground Festival in The Payan Theater at The Roy Arias Theatre Center on 43rd Street in New York City.
Also in 2008, Charles founded Bryant Stock, LLC, better known through its modaCYCLE International Fashion Image Services division. The company connects fashion photographers with magazines and designers who need their services. He serves as the company Operations Director and is the editor of modaCYCLE Journal, a web publication where the company's photographers write about fashion innovation and trends.
+1 (718) 530-8057
website@charlesbeckwith.com
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