Bill Mason is one of the rare individuals that excels at both video and still photography. Bill began his professional photography career at the age of 16, covering news and sports for his weekly hometown newspaper in Vermont. While attending the University of Maine he was a staff photographer for the daily campus newspaper, served as its photo editor for two years and freelanced for other local newspapers. He received his first photography award while in college when Eastern Basketball magazine presented him with Photo of the Year.
Bill graduated with bachelor’s degrees in both Journalism and Broadcasting. His career for the next twenty years was primarily as a broadcast photojournalist. Bill was chief photographer for WVII-TV and WLBZ-TV in Bangor, Maine where he shot and edited news, sports and documentaries. While at WLBZ, Bill was honored with several awards including two statewide photojournalism awards and the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for journalistic excellence. At this same time in his career, Bill began a secondary career as camera operator for live broadcasts of college and professional sports and events such as concerts and theatrical productions.
After sixteen years in Maine television news, Bill was named senior photojournalist at WLVT-TV, a PBS affiliate in the Philadelphia market. Bill shot for a weekly news magazine as well as documentaries and ran camera for live remote and studio productions. Within three years, Bill and his colleagues had amassed several Pennsylvania state broadcast awards, PBS educational awards and a regional news Emmy.
Bill Mason Images was established in 2004, combining his thirty years of award winning skills and experience as a photojournalist, videographer, still photographer and camera operator. Bill provides the same level of professionalism and quality to all of his clients regardless of their budget or the scope of the project. Clients presently include fashion designers, universities, major corporations, television networks, non profit organizations, small businesses, families and individuals.
Bill documenting a medical mission in the
Dominican Republic for American Baptist Churches
Highlights of Bill's career include being the first photojournalist to have behind the scenes video of Sesame Street broadcast anywhere in the world, interviewing blues legend B.B. King, crashlanding in a hot air balloon...twice, running handheld video camera on stage with folk superstar Judy Collins, videotaping open heart surgery and in spite of his dislike of heights, repelling off a cliff with a 30 pound Betacam anchored only to a tiny scrub pine.
