Tara is an EMMY award winning producer with over fifteen years of experience as a producer, clearance supervisor, archive producer, researcher and photo editor for editorial and commercial clients such as Vogue, Marie Claire, The FACE, Amazon Studios, Sony Television, Apple TV, HBO, Netflix, Discovery, New York Times and National Geographic among others.
Tara has spent her career developing a professional network of industry relationships with studios, networks, talent guilds, and stock agencies. Her knowledge of current affairs, entertainment, sports and pop culture allows her to be on the cutting edge of traditional and new media usage rights bringing expertise in negotiating rates and contracts. With her extensive experience licensing imagery and footage and clearing talent and music married with her knowledge of copyright law she insures that the producers are legally protected, and clearances have been obtained in order to facilitate the creation of the final film/television production, exhibition or commercial project.
A former Associated Press photographer with 10 years of international experience, she worked together with Seamus Conlan photographing more than 21,000 lost children to help reunite them with their parents after the Rwandan genocide in 1994. For the unique compilation image of 21,000 children they were given the Art Directors Club award and ‘The Lost Children of Rwanda’ was named one of the “100 images that changed the world” by Life magazine. Tara co-founded WorldPictureNews -WpN in 2000 and as Editorial Director with over 5,000 media clients oversaw the editorial direction of WpN and formed international working partnerships to represent the work of WpN photographers in Documentary photography, News, Entertainment and Commercial photography. 
Tara’s eye for a story led to many famous articles and stories being aired and published including the Vanity Fair exclusive of the US marines that led the battle of Fallujah in Iraq where four Marines were charged with non-premeditated murder, this quickly went on to be a world topic. She negotiated with Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan RAWA to smuggle out exclusive images and video of the executions in the Kabul soccer stadium that ran across the world to show the brutality of the Taliban. Tara also secured the rights to never before seen imagery of Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful during his flee to South America from a photographer who had never thought to develop the film. This set of images went on to gross over six figures for the photographer and gave the public a chance to experience imagery they had never seen before. Tara has also shot and produced multiple feature programs for international broadcasters such as NOS Netherlands, NHK Japan, NDZ Germany, BBC, Channel 4, RDF England, CNN and NBC News.
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