Hi! I'm Eleanor, a Chicago native and recent University of Illinois graduate drawn to the alchemy of production and visual storytelling, the way light, movement, sound, and emotion converge to create something that lingers.

As a visual learner and someone who spent years feeling disconnected from my own emotions, I didn't know how to name what I was experiencing: loss, joy, confusion, grief, until I discovered visual art. It gave me a language when words failed. What started as a summer experiment with a film camera four years ago has grown into a deep commitment to photography, videography, and creative direction rooted in the belief that how something feels matters more than how it's supposed to look.

I'm fascinated by the mechanics of storytelling: how a shift in pacing can reframe a narrative, how music can unlock hidden emotion in a frame, how production design and lighting shape atmosphere before a single word is spoken. I've been freelancing, building my own projects, and experimenting with the interplay between image, sound, and editing, teaching myself through trial, intuition, and the work that moves me.

I'm driven to make work that permits people to feel: to craft visuals that capture the texture of a moment, not just its surface. I want to create work that does for others what visual storytelling did for me: offers clarity, connection, and understanding when everything else feels uncertain. I'm building toward a career in creative production, grounded in empathy, craft, and the conviction that art can help us make sense of what it means to be human.

Thanks for being here. If you're building something that needs to be seen, felt, and remembered, I'd love to help bring that vision to life.

Best,
Eleanor Faye Vanecko