Clayton Hotze

Clayton is a photographer and graphic designer that also is experienced in computer science and database management. Having shot more than twenty different sports across more than a ten-year career, with his photos being featured on over thirty various news publications.

Clayton’s primary focus over the years has revolved around sports, campus life, and travel.

In addition to photographing, he has managed many different Digital Asset Management systems through the years, including local servers, building his own NAS from scratch, Libris from Photoshelter, Sidearm, and spinning up Amazon S3 Buckets.

Clayton's library consists of over 400,000 images, and the combination of all the libraries he’s managed tops 3,500,000 digital assets.

He has taught and used the Adobe Creative Suite for many years and used Capture One and Photo Mechanic as well.

Clayton compliments his workflows with custom Python Scripts and is also passionate about Geographic Information Systems and Computer Vision. He’s developed a number of programs where imagery, GIS Data and Reporting intersect.

Awards

CASE IV Gold Award - Campus Environment

The James Alan Cox Foundation Scholarship

The Greater St. Louis Art Association Scholarship

3rd Place in the Missouri Congressional Art Competition

Russell and Ruth Krauss Memorial Art Scholarship

Katie Stream Memorial Scholarship