October 7th, 2011
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Zoom Inside the Mind of a Master Photo Editor “Assigning a shoot is in many ways, the most important aspect of what photo editors do. Pairing the right photographer with the story is what yields the surprise and delight when the pictures come in. Kathy...

Inside the Mind of a Master Photo Editor

“Assigning a shoot is in many ways, the most important aspect of what photo editors do. Pairing the right photographer with the story is what yields the surprise and delight when the pictures come in.

Kathy Ryan, the Director of Photography at The New York Times Magazine, is famous for cross-assigning—hiring a war photographer to shoot celebrities, or commissioning a large-format landscape photographer to capture news close up.”

Read more from TIME: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/04/inside-the-mind-of-a-master-photo-editor/#ixzz1a78dsz5r

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