Bill Frakes
William Frakes is an American visual storyteller and educator based in Florida.
Work and career
Frakes has worked for Sports Illustrated.He directs music videos and commercial television spots. He works with Digital [single-lens reflex camera|DSLR] video, integrating stills, audio and video to create stories which can be viewed in multiple ways. Correlating with the 150th anniversary of Nebraska's statehood, Frakes' most recent project has focused on returning to his roots documenting his home of Nebraska in various multimedia mediums.
Teaching
He has taught at the University of Miami, the University of Florida, the University of Kansas, and the University of Nebraska. Between 2005 and 2010, he lectured at more than 100 universities discussing multimedia and photojournalism. He is a photography instructor.The University of Nebraska–Lincoln found that Frakes engaged in sexual misconduct and sexual harassment while he was a visiting professor. Frakes was found to have made unwanted comments about women students’ bodies and clothing according to a document obtained by The Omaha World-Herald. The allegation by a female UNL student was corroborated by multiple other students. The National Press Photographers' Association noted: "The university’s office of institutional equity and compliance told the student that it found by a preponderance of the evidence that the respondent had sexually harassed the student by making unwanted sexual comments about her, and in doing so created a hostile environment for the student." Frakes appealed the claim and lost that appeal.