An internationally award winning Picture Editor, Ms. Harbutt has spent 20 years picture editing at American news magazines. She was the Director of Photography at Newsweek magazine from 2000-2003 when the magazine won the National Magazine Award in General Excellence for two consecutive years. She supervised Newsweek’s photographic coverage of numerous historic breaking news events including the 2000 Presidential Elections, September 11 attacks and the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. She also mentored Newsweek’s team of contract photographers: Luc Delahaye, Ilkka Uimonen, Alex Majoli, Paolo Pellegrin, Laurent van der Stockt, Khui Bui, Charles Ommaney and Gary Knight.
Prior to Newsweek, Ms. Harbutt was the deputy Picture Editor at the New York Times Magazine for twelve years.
In 2000, Ms. Harbutt received the Visa Pour L’Image International Picture Editor of the Year Award in Perpignan, France. She has served on the jury and nominating committees of the Overseas Press Club Awards, The World Press Photo Awards, American Photography Annual and the ICP Infinity Awards. She has led workshops and seminars at Parsons The New School for Design, The University of Tampere in Finland, the Toscana Photographic Workshops in Italy and The Maine Photographic Workshops.
Ms. Harbutt lives in Brooklyn, New York with her three teenage sons.
Sarah Harbutt
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Response to Assignment WEEK 9: A Final Edit
Dear Mikhail,
(I realize it is confusing to know where to post assignments and comments and that sometimes I can press a button to make an edit and sometimes there is no "edit" button…So I am responding to your post for the final edit HERE, even thought the images were posted on week 5, to try to bring us all up to date.)
I really like the sensuous low-light exposure of your work. It reminds me of some of the work I see in National Geographic magazine, the Kodachrome years. This can be tricky because you can easily get too dark to see or a star of blinding light. You might want to take a lighting class at some point, with a master like David Alan Harvey or Georgui Pinkhassov (does he teach?) to master the technique.
That said, I selected the following 7 images as my favorite, and went back to your shoot at Joy Commune and added 7 of those images as well. You have a solid start to a much larger story …one or two more villages, a change of season, and you will have a complete project ready for publication!
Nice work!
sarah
Response to Assignment WEEK 9: A Final Edit
Workshop: EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Pauline, here are the images
Response to Assignment WEEK 9: A Final Edit
Workshop: EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Dear Mikhail,
(I realize it is confusing to know where to post assignments and comments and that sometimes I can press a button to make an edit and sometimes there is no "edit" button…So I am responding to your post for the final edit HERE, even thought the images were posted on week 5, to try to bring us all up to date.)
I really like the sensuous low-light exposure of your work. It reminds me of some of the work I see in National Geographic magazine, the Kodachrome years. This can be tricky because you can easily get too dark to see or a star of blinding light. You might want to take a lighting class at some point, with a master like David Alan Harvey or Georgui Pinkhassov (does he teach?) to master the technique.
That said, I selected the following 7 images as my favorite, and went back to your shoot at Joy Commune and added 7 of those images as well. You have a solid start to a much larger story …one or two more villages, a change of season, and you will have a complete project ready for publication!
Nice work!
sarah
