Paula Gillen has an in-depth knowledge of the publishing industry having worked for over 20 years as a photo editor and photo researcher in New York City. She excels at conceptualizing and finding visual solutions to illustrate a wide range of text and topics. She can track down obscure imagery and handle complex projects. Her specialty is locating and licensing fine art photography. She gained this experience working as a key member of The New Yorker magazine photography department (2003-2007) where she was in charge of locating imagery to illustrate the weekly fiction section and images for personality profiles, environmental, medical, and historical articles.
Gillen’s latest assignment as a photo editor was for the western lifestyle magazine, ForbesLife Mountain Time magazine in Boulder, CO. In 2009 she also worked as a photo researcher for ECOS Communication. For ECOS she located historical and contemporary photographs of paleontology scientists, personalities and digs in WY. See ECOS’ blog for more information about the Washakie Museum project. http://ecosboulder.wordpress.com/ Other past clients include: Time, Time Inc. Custom Publishing, Vanity Fair, People, Artnews, Business Week, Forbes, Readers Digest and McGraw-Hill children’s textbooks. For these clients she has located and licensed imagery from a wide variety of sources. She is skilled at finding images that work with a client’s identity, brand and taste.
Some tear-sheets that she produced as a photo editor or photo researcher:
