Kayla Geswint

Photographer | Retoucher | Photo editor

Arts / Entertainment / Publishing

Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality

Services offered

I love to learn new things and reach my goals. Collaboration is the best way to create and it is a chance to learn from others. I graduated Cum Laude with my Honours in Photography from Nelson Mandela University 2022.

Retoucher

Photographer

Photo editor

Approximate rate: ZARR 950 per hour

Experience

Invigilator, National Benchmark Test, University of Cape Town

July 2023 –

Invigilation of students writing Mathematics and Literacy tests.
Helping students to find their ID number on a list.
Collecting test scripts.

Administrative Clerk, Kuban Chetty Inc

October 2022 – February 2023

Filing of documents
Drafting of legal documents for court
Diarising court dates
Updating files
Attending and responding to emails
Liaising with clients
Consultations
Telephone calls to debtors
Attending to instructions from the department head

Learning Experience Designer, Nelson Mandela University

March 2021 – December 2021

Created numerous Microsoft Teams and Zoom backgrounds to be used by University staff
Created Microsoft PowerPoint templates
LXD Team Photographer
Created t-shirt designs
Gathering of appropriate stock images for clients
Photographed students returning to campus

Student Assistant, Nelson Mandela University

January 2020 – February 2020

Sorting and filing documents
Assisting with general enquiries (walk-ins and telephonic)
Capturing the online registration of applicants

Photographer’s Assistant to Prof. Peter Glendinning (Michigan State University Fulbright Scholarship), Nelson Mandela University
July 2019

I was selected as one of 50 creatives in South African universities to portray a narrative that I believed was related to the model of the Attached to The Soil project.
Holding the light stand over the individual photographed
Videography – recorded what someone would see as you
walk down the street

Student Assistant, Nelson Mandela University

January 2019 – February 2019