As Nuveen's needs grew, so did the scope of the work: precious artifacts from the corporate archive, photographed for an annual report. Then, following TIAA's acquisition of Nuveen in 2014, and accelerating in the years after, a much larger question emerged — how do you help tens of thousands of people across a merged global institution feel recognized, not just documented?
That question has shaped everything since. Executive portraits of CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett across all five Executive Operating Council meetings. A portrait of CEO Bill Huffman commissioned for Nikkei Magazine. Thousands of individual headshots for staff across Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Charlotte — each one an effort to make a single person feel seen inside an organization of enormous scale.
And on the event side, a level of access few photographers ever earn: all three of Nuveen's marquee nPowered conferences in New York, with rooms that included George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, David Rubenstein, Karl Rove, and David Axelrod; national and global sales meetings; CEO events in New York, Atlanta, Boston, and Washington, D.C.; and Nuveen's Leaders in Lifetime Income series held across the country.
What started as headshots became something closer to a visual memory of two institutions becoming one — told one recognizable person at a time.
