Amy Feitelberg, Photo Creative Lead at Square, and formerly the former Photo Director of Outside and Los Angeles magazines, plus a founding Curator for Images For Humanity — a photo charity supporting Ukraine.
Check out her tasty tearsheets and background on Amy’s portfolio site. Seriously, she’s worked with everyone.
This is Part 2 of my interview with Amy. Start with Part 1, or you’ll be confused and miss out on lots of good stuff! The following notes include references to both parts, fyi. Don’t miss the links at the bottom, to follow along at home with visual aids.
I’m your host, Neil Binkley, Photographer's Consultant and Graphic Designer.
We touch on so many different brands and publications (many of which she’s worked at, or knows the creatives):
- Square (and The Reader, it’s in-house publication)
- Apple
- Outside magazine
- Los Angeles magazine
- The New York Times Magazine
- New York magazine
- INQUE magazine
- Aphotoeditor
My gosh, we bring up so many creatives, photo editors, photographers and artists — most of whom she’s hired or worked with):
- Mary Ellen Mark
- Carlos Serao
- Frank Ockenfels
- Laurie Kratochvil
- Kwaku Alston
- Herb Ritts
- Jill Greenberg
- Andy Anderson
- Rob Haggart
- Dan Winters
- Emily Shur
- Art Streiber
- Arem Duplessis
- Matt Willey
- Landon Nordeman
- Daniele Gasparini
In our discussion today, Amy and I talk about many things. If your podcast app shows chapters — well check ‘em out, because I added them! Otherwise, here’s a list of topics discussed, plus you can click on the timestamp to jump to that part of the interview (but OF COURSE, you’re listening all the way through the episode…):
[00:00:00] Amy Feitelberg Intro
[00:03:26] What is The Personal Photography Project?
[00:04:38] What Does Amy Do at Square?
[00:11:37] Licensing Photos (Trends)
[00:16:18] The Anonymous Nature of Her Work
[00:19:10] Looking at Personal Work As A Hiring Consideration
[00:24:05] How NOT to Get Hired by Square
[00:26:48] Print and Email Promos
[00:29:18] Coming Up With Ideas For Personal Projects
[00:32:36] Where to Send A Print Promo These Days?
[00:38:16] Portfolio Reviews
[00:40:07] She's Founding Curator at Images for Humanity, which Supports Ukraine
[00:45:41] We Live in a Photo Community
[00:48:54] BONUS: Us talking about podcasts that we like
This and much, much more.
Links to What We Discuss:
[FYI: some podcast apps — I'm looking at you, Apple — cut off these show notes before the end. You can see all of the shownotes on apps like Spotify or Overcast. OR, on our website: www.neilbinkley.com/photopod]
- Amy’s portfolio site, which includes great tearsheets and colorful work samples from Square, Outside mag, Los Angeles mag, and more
- Square’s colorful branding
- Square’s The Reader, an in-house magazine
- The Personal Photography Project, which I founded this year as a website for showcasing photographers’ personal work
- Neon Alleys, the photorealist CG project, by Daniele Gasparini, that stood out to Amy on our site
- Rob Haggart and his influential Aphotoeditor photo blog
- Jody Quon’s job listing (she’s Photo Director for New York magazine)
- Images for Humanity, the photo charity supporting Ukraine that involves an amazing list of photographers — and you can buy their prints! An actually meaningful, last-minute Holiday/Birthday gift idea?
- Print is Dead, a podcast about the magazine industry. Interviews with Arem Duplessis, Dan Winters, and other editorial luminaries.
- Matt Willey, former Art Director at The New York Times Magazine (look at all of his amazing cover designs!), Founder/Art Director for INQUE, a boutique literary magazine, ,typeface designer, and Pentagram partner. Can you tell I’m a fan?
- Smartless podcast
- Heather Elder’s “Dear Art Producer” podcast
- The Photo Banter podcast, by Alex Gagne
- Eyeball, a photo podcast by John Loomis
- Workbook Radio podcast
- Bonus link: Entertainment Weekly letterhead post about Amy, with lovely hand-drawn illustration by the always-entertaining, former Photo Editor, Michele Romero
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Also feel free to drop me a line with questions and ideas for future interviews!