Professional Development Series: How to work with editors- best practices with Rebecca Horne

Speaker:    Rebecca Horne , Art Director and Lens Based Artist 

Title :          How to work with editors: best practices     

Date:          April 1st 2024

Times:         7 – 8:30 pm EST via Zoom

Description:

In this talk, Rebecca will share examples of published work and walk through the assignment process from start to finish. If you are a working artist, your personal work can be an asset in connecting with editors and getting assignments. She will talk about how she looks at personal work or art projects when she is commissioning assignments. She”ll share tips for making your website editor-friendly as well as basics for creating lasting mutually beneficial relationships with editors.

Rebecca will share examples of successful and unsuccessful assignments, briefs, sketches and the behind the scenes wrangling at publications. She’ll also discuss the career arc of photographers she’s worked with over many years, and tips on how to get and how to handle in person portfolio viewings and more.

• How to get your work in front of editors
• How to optimize your website for editors
• the role of personal work in obtaining paid work
• How to get assignments
• The anatomy of an assignment: a few examples of briefs, sketches and final published work.
• contracts: some basics
• Dos and don’ts

About Rebecca Horne:

Rebecca Horne is an independent artist and an Art director at Spectrum, a science news publication. She oversees all media and visuals, commissioning illustrations, photography, directing videos, and writing articles and scripts. Previously, she worked at publications including The Wall Street Journal, at startups including Airbnb, and in advertising.

Rebecca has been honored with awards from The Art Directors Club, American Photography, Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, American Illustration, ASME, The Azbees, Int’l Motion Art Award from Ai-Ap, Society of Publication designers, and The Tellys, among others.

Rebecca has taught photography at the California College of the Arts and Rutgers University. She enjoys writing about art, photography and science — and has been published by Wired, CNN, the National Academy of Sciences, The Wall Street Journal, Nautilus and others.

She is represented by Centre Claude Cahun for Contemporary Photography in Nantes, France. Exhibition history includes solo exhibitions at Roebling Hall Gallery in New York City, Centre Claude Cahun, and the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Rebecca is a Webby, Anthem Award and Telly contest judge and has served as a photography portfolio reviewer at Santa Fe Review, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Powerhouse books and PhotoAlliance among others