ABOUT DATA VISUALS

Aline Menezes

Derek M. Jackson

The Brazilian

Aline is the manager of Data Visuals' operations. She is responsible for scheduling, billing and company affairs, and also maintains Data Visuals' stock library.
Born in Brazil, Aline was raised in Recife, a large coastal city in the Northeast of Brazil, and has lived in three different countries. She has a passion for ballroom and social dancing and won a few dance competitions when she lived in Boston, Massachusetts in the mid-eighties. She also enjoys flying her stunt kite at parks around Foster City.

Aline is a breast cancer survivor and, as a result of that, she and Derek have collaborated on a book about women and breast cancer. It is an inspirational book about eighteen women who share their life-changing experiences, their fears, hopes and dreams while battling cancer. In addition to each of the women’s stories, the book contains their photographs, over one hundred eighty color and black & white images. The women portrayed in the book are from the San Francisco Bay Area, Oklahoma City and Recife. They are from different walks of life: homemakers, teachers, mail carriers, business women, doctors, rich and poor… cancer makes no distinctions and affects us all!

I Can STILL Dance the Merengue is available at our website and in select bookstores in the San Francisco Bay Area. (Please click link to see book cover)

Thee Brit

Derek Jackson is a Photojournalist and photographer - Available for commissions and assignments worldwide. He is experienced in Photojournalism and Commercial/Industrial Photography.

Derek has been taking photographs for over 30 years and has worked for various publications during that time, including The European; Resultados (Spanish 60-page Sports Weekly) The Northwest Evening Mail; and The Westmorland Gazette.
During a 15-year stay in the south of Spain, he held the position of Picture Editor for Resultados.

In between news assignments, he also produced advertising for companies like Benetton, Cotton Bull, AMI International, and Chinitas Ladies Fashions.
On his return to the UK, he launched a local weekly, Furness Today, which he had the unenviable task of starting up from scratch. "There is nothing in the world to equal the rush you get from getting issue Number One onto the streets!"

In the later nineties, during his stay in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Derek worked on a project at Mabel Bassett Prison, a women's maximum-security prison, where he compiled an article concerning women on Death Row. He produced numerous front-page articles for the Spanish language newspaper El Nacional. He also edited and published a Hispanic paper called Salud & Vida, which is aimed at promoting better health and lifestyle in the Hispanic community in Oklahoma City. The paper is sponsored by the Clinica Guadalupana. Additionally, Derek was chief cameraman for Channel 22-HTVV (KTOU)

Originally from the United Kingdom, Derek has lived in several different places around the world. He has a passion for fast motorcycles and dogs, but his first love is, and has always been, photography.

"Red" Thompson

Thee Banshee

Pat, aka "Red", is the Webmistress for Data Visuals. She is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

She is a motorcycle rider, a published author and poet. She is a member of Phenomenal Women of the Web ©, one of the "Top 100 Women Webmasters" ©; and a graphic artist by trade.

"Red" is also a 7-year survivor of lung cancer.

Data Visuals Photography
Foster City, California USA
Telephone: (650) 577-0990

Derek Jackson derek@datavisuals.net

Aline Menezes aline@datavisuals.net

All photographs © Data Visuals 1995-2005
Graphic Design by "Red" Thompson

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Aline Menezes		Derek M. Jackson
	Aline is the manager of Data Visuals' operations. She is responsible for scheduling, billing and company affairs, and also maintains Data Visuals' stock library. Born in Brazil, Aline was raised in Recife, a large coastal city in the Northeast of Brazil, and has lived in three different countries. She has a passion for ballroom and social dancing and won a few dance competitions when she lived in Boston, Massachusetts in the mid-eighties. She also enjoys flying her stunt kite at parks around Foster City. Aline is a breast cancer survivor and, as a result of that, she and Derek have collaborated on a book about women and breast cancer. It is an inspirational book about eighteen women who share their life-changing experiences, their fears, hopes and dreams while battling cancer. In addition to each of the women’s stories, the book contains their photographs, over one hundred eighty color and black & white images. The women portrayed in the book are from the San Francisco Bay Area, Oklahoma City and Recife. They are from different walks of life: homemakers, teachers, mail carriers, business women, doctors, rich and poor… cancer makes no distinctions and affects us all! I Can STILL Dance the Merengue is available at our website and in select bookstores in the San Francisco Bay Area. (Please click link to see book cover)		Derek Jackson is a Photojournalist and photographer - Available for commissions and assignments worldwide. He is experienced in Photojournalism and Commercial/Industrial Photography. Derek has been taking photographs for over 30 years and has worked for various publications during that time, including The European; Resultados (Spanish 60-page Sports Weekly) The Northwest Evening Mail; and The Westmorland Gazette. During a 15-year stay in the south of Spain, he held the position of Picture Editor for Resultados. In between news assignments, he also produced advertising for companies like Benetton, Cotton Bull, AMI International, and Chinitas Ladies Fashions. On his return to the UK, he launched a local weekly, Furness Today, which he had the unenviable task of starting up from scratch. "There is nothing in the world to equal the rush you get from getting issue Number One onto the streets!" In the later nineties, during his stay in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Derek worked on a project at Mabel Bassett Prison, a women's maximum-security prison, where he compiled an article concerning women on Death Row. He produced numerous front-page articles for the Spanish language newspaper El Nacional. He also edited and published a Hispanic paper called Salud & Vida, which is aimed at promoting better health and lifestyle in the Hispanic community in Oklahoma City. The paper is sponsored by the Clinica Guadalupana. Additionally, Derek was chief cameraman for Channel 22-HTVV (KTOU) Originally from the United Kingdom, Derek has lived in several different places around the world. He has a passion for fast motorcycles and dogs, but his first love is, and has always been, photography.