Joni Kabana is a visual artist and communications specialist who is most happy when she is deep into a world which is unfamiliar to her. She can be found at home or in remote villages across the globe working on magazine, NGO, corporate, advertisement and personal projects trying to stretch her beliefs and imagination as far as they will go.
Joni graduated with honors with a degree in Psychology, loving her study of human behavior. She also holds post degree certification in computer programming and enjoyed an earlier corporate career leading teams that produced technical interactive projects.
Her work has garnered numerous awards, is shown in galleries internationally, and has been published extensively. She currently teaches for several institutions and organizes her own portraiture and international photography workshops. She also consults with many clients on business, portfolio and marketing development and is the owner of The Spray General Store, an art and community center located in Spray, Oregon.
She gives back to the community by balancing her creative commercial work with humanitarian non-profit projects. Her work with Mercy Corps International in India and Nepal and her work with rural hospitals in Ethiopia garnered two American Society of Media Photographer’s “Best of” designations, and she has helped numerous charitable organizations relay their unique purposes. She has served on many committees and boards, including The Children’s Cancer Association, The John Day River Territory Agritourism Project, Photolucida and The Oregon Frontier Chamber of Commerce.
Joni is available for consultation, lectures, workshops and classroom teaching, in addition to commercial advertisement and portrait/editorial assignments. She loves capturing still imagery, video, and sound content in addition to producing multi-media pieces. She is hired often as a social media and blog writer, expanding the outreach of many organizations such as Travel Oregon, 1859/1889 Magazines and Travel Pendleton.
See extensive galleries of her work on her Photoshelter account in addition to this curated website.
Signed prints of her work are available upon request.
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