About

Retake was created in January 2020. Danielle Desnoyers founded it while living as an expat in Vietnam. She was a freelance photographer who worked with international clients, and she went on numerous nonprofit photography trips to India and Cambodia. Earlier in her career, she had been a photojournalist in Egypt and had worked with nonprofits with locations around the world. Through her travels and work, she saw how important photographs were to people of all different backgrounds.

Retake is based in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA, but we travel to locations to photograph recipients.
Please reach out if we can plan a project with your community: info@retakeorg.com.

Values & Ethics

Empathy
Trauma-informed healing
Cultural awareness
Listening skills
Respect
Professionalism

Retake's Safeguarding Policy
Retake's Code of Conduct

Board of Directors

Danielle Desnoyers, Board President

Danielle has been a freelance photographer since she graduated with a bachelor's degree in Photojournalism from American University in Washington, DC. The next decade was a steady rotation working with photography clients, fundraising and doing communication for nonprofits, traveling and living in different countries, and managing restaurants in the US. She became a full-time international photographer in January 2018 and primarily lived in Vietnam. In January 2020, she combined all she had learned and witnessed throughout her career to create Retake. In addition to being the director and lead photographer at Retake, she also is a Red Cross photographer in coastal North Carolina and freelance photographer for personal clients. She is an avid reader, loves all things travel-related, and a devoted aunt to her many nieces and nephews.

Jamie Franklin, Board Treasurer

Jamie has worked in the nonprofit sector for over 20 years, holding multiple management, leadership and financial oversight positions over the years. Jamie brings a depth of nonprofit and financial management experience and expertise to Retake. He is currently Executive Director of an international nonprofit based out of Washington, DC and Treasurer on his HOA board. Jamie holds a master's degree in Economics in Development Administration and Management from the University of Manchester and a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Loughborough University. He is a keen oenophile and lives in northern Virginia with his wife and daughter.

Caitlin Hinton, Board Secretary

With 13 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, Caitlin now focuses her fundraising expertise on helping organizations build their staff capacity in institutional business development and create more productive knowledge management systems. Through her tenure at Save the Children International and USA, she has strengthened the business development process and co-led the highly successful Business Development Learning Program. Before shifting focus, Caitlin spent ten years in nonprofit fundraising and has previously held roles at The Catalog for Giving of New York City, Mines Advisory Group (MAG) America, and the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Caitlin holds a Masters of Public Administration: International Development from the University of York in the UK and holds a Bachelor of Arts: Communication from Texas A&M University. Caitlin currently lives in London and loves British mysteries, being in nature, and keeping up on all things popular culture.

Mary Larzelere

Mary is has been working in the nonprofit sector for over a decade, with experience in nonprofit management, project management, and new business development. She currently oversees the proposal pricing function at Save the Children, which supports over $500M in US Government fundraising efforts per year, and is also a volunteer photographer with DC Family and Youth Initiative, an organization that provides support to older teens in foster care. Mary has served as an ambassador for Retake since its inception, and is excited to join the board! She holds a Masters in International Development from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and a BA in Psychology from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. Mary is an avid reader, an amateur photographer, and loves spending time outdoors. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and son.

Staff

Danielle Desnoyers, Director and Lead Photographer

Interested in volunteering or getting involved in the work we are doing?
Check out our Ambassador page or send us an email: info@retakeorg.com