THE PHOTOGRAPHER / EDITOR COLLABORATION
With photographer Elinor Carucci and Esquire magazine Visual Director Justin O'Neill
ONLINE
LEVEL:
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
LIMITED TO 10 STUDENTS
ABOUT THE CLASS
Are you a photographer curious about doing editorial work but don’t know where to begin? Are you an editorial photographer who would like to better understand the photographer/editor relationship and the tools that will take your work to the next level? If you answered yes to either of these questions, this workshop is for you!
In this workshop, we will look at the different stages of an editorial project, including preparing a winning portfolio, knowing when to accept or decline an assignment, how to pitch an idea, collaborating with an editor, creating a budget, submitting proofs and final images, as well as billing. You will leave the workshop with a better understanding of all of the processes necessary to successfully secure and complete an editorial assignment.
At the heart of a successful editorial assignment is the collaborative relationship between the photo editor and the photographer. After working together for many years at publications including the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker, and inspired by our shared passion for editorial photography, we developed this class to help aspiring editorial photographers realize their goal of seeing their photography in magazines and newspapers.
WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS WORKSHOP
This two-day workshop is for intermediate and advanced photographers who wish to better understand the process of successfully securing, planning, and completing editorial photography assignments. The workshop will run from 10am-4pm ET, with a one-hour lunch break.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
• Critique of student work
• Developing a successful editorial portfolio
• Finding and creating assignment opportunities
• Production and execution
• Working with a highly accomplished photo editor
• A pre-workshop mock-editorial assignment will be given to students upon enrollment.
Elinor Carucci was born 1971 in Jerusalem to a Jewish family of North African, Syrian, Bukharian and Italian descent. She graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography, and moved to New York that same year. Carucci’s work has been included in many many exhibitions worldwide, including solo shows at Edwynn Houk Gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery, FoMU, and Gagosian Gallery, and group exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art New York, MoCP Chicago, and The Photographers' Gallery, London. Her photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, amongst many other public and private collections. Carucci’s editorial work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, ARTnews amongst other publications. She was awarded the ICP Infinity Award in 2001, The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and NYFA in 2010. Carucci has four published monographs to date including
Closer (Chronicle Books 2002),
Diary of a Dancer (SteidlMack 2005),
Mother (Prestel 2013), and.
Midlife (Monacelli Press/Phaidon (2019). In 2023 her fifth book,
The Collars of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Stories They Tell (Clarkson Potter/Random House) will be published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City. Carucci is represented by the Edwynn Houk Gallery.
Justin O’Neill is a Visual Director at Hearst Publications overseeing all photography for Esquire Magazine. Previously he’s been a photo editor at GQ Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, and the New Yorker. Justin is an undergraduate faculty member at the School of Visual Arts in New York teaching a photography critique course for the past ten years, and he’s a photographer with a published book of his photographs by Glitterati in 2018 entitled On Stellar Rays: A Dad, A Daughter, A Divorce. Justin lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.