Photo by Kate Elliot
Photo by Alison Petracek
About Jill
Jill Petracek (Pah-traw-check) is a photographer/videographer in Los Angeles, CA.
She has BFAs in Graphic Design and Studio Art from the University of Minnesota Duluth and currently teaches courses at Portland Community College.
Her photos have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. She’s also worked for Netflix Is A Joke, DropoutTV, and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
For comedy, Jill loves to capture backstage moments at Dynasty Typewriter, the Elysian, UCB Theater LA, and Largo at the Coronet.
For life, she takes care of her little vegetables in her apartment window boxes, goes for walks, and does her very best to read real books from the library.
services
Photography
Videography
Cinematography
editing
and in a past life, I did art dept. But no longer! This lady’s got more camera gear than anything.
Bro Down Cast and Crew. Photo by Andrew Levy
Backstage at the Kennedy Center with
Improvised Shakespeare
Taking photos of Ben Schwartz and Friends at Chicago Theater
PREVIOUS WORK
WRITING
EUX Media (2019–2023) | Educational + Commercial
Writing Producer
Teaching
Portland Community College (2020-Current) | Educational
Multimedia Design, Screenwriting/Preproduction, Portfolio Capstone
ART DEPARTMENT
Stream of Blood (2020–2022) | Streaming Series
Art Director
PIG (2019) | Feature Film
Art Coordinator
The Birch (2019) | TV Series
SFX Assistant
Chiller (2019) | Short Film
Production Designer
My Best Friend Molly (2019) | Web Series
Production Designer
First Cow (2018) | Feature Film
Art Assistant
A Few Moral Dilemmas (2018) | Short Film
Production Designer
See Jill’s IMDb
Taking photos at the
Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Oscars
