Who We Are

Tyler Young

Founder/Designer

Tyler is a founding member of projectHERE serving as both creative director and designer. With a background in design and marketing Tyler brings all the disciplines from his work in design and focuses them on helping communities better understand their soul. His extensive work in the social and environmental sustainability space has been praised not only for its creativity but its significant contribution to the common good.

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Paige Green

Photographer

Paige Green is a documentary photographer in Petaluma, California. In 10 years of photographing, she’s specialized in documenting communities confronting change. Those include Reidville, South Carolina, a farming community trading in its farm land for manufacturing plants, strip malls and giant homes; Dallas, Texas which is working to create a vibrant, urban downtown to draw in people from the sprawling outskirts; and a house boat community in London forced to move from the Marina where its docked for generations to make way for Olympics redevelopment. Paige holds a master’s degree in documentary photography and photojournalism from The University of the Arts London and a bachelor’s degree in geography from The University of Georgia. She has worked with Marin Agricultural Land Trust, Urban ReVision, Habitat of Humanity, Equality California and many other community and non-profit organizations. Her documentary photography is featured in two books, “Field Days” by Jonah Raskin, which documents Sonoma County farming culture; and “Gathering Color” by Rebecca Burgess, which depicts using native plants to make natural dyes. And Paige documents what she encounters everyday on her blog, Somewhere Between a Handshake and Two Kisses” found at paigegreen.wordpress.com.

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Chip Rees

Founder/Documentray Filmmaker

Chip is a founding member of projectHERE serving as both creative director and producer.  Chip brings years of experience from the brand strategy, documentary and consumer research disciplines into his efforts at projectHERE.  Studying culture and the way we live as citizens within society has always been his driving push.  At projectHERE Chip is relentless about taking his manner of studying culture and applying creative means to generating more meaningful social connections and community experiences.