A little bit about me
I’m Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, and I’m a website designer/developer, an artist, and an editor. My base is in Syracuse, New York, where the winters are tough, and the women are even tougher.
My experiences as a photographer and an editor help me refine skills that are important in web design. Photography led me to further develop a natural sense of balance and composition in design, and editing taught me how to make written communication clearer and stronger.
I’ve been a photographer since I was a little girl, capturing my German Shepherd, King, on Polaroid film (soon to be a thing of the past). As a grown-up photographer I’ve exhibited my work both nationally and internationally and have images in the collections of the Korean Cultural Center, En Foco, the Korean American Museum, and others.
I trained as an editor at the Southern Illinois University Press in Carbondale, and I worked as an editor at Outside magazine, Light Work, and as a freelancer. The Chicago Manual of Style is my bible.
My first website was a barely functional, nowhere near valid, tables-based site for my photography. It’s still in existence, and I tell myself almost every day that I’m going to redesign it. Soon.
I live in Syracuse with my philosopher spouse, Mario Saenz; our formerly homeschooled, heavy-metal-guitar-playing teenager; and my unplanned child, a Wheaten Terrier puppy named after the photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
