Kira Pollack is a visual story-teller who conceives and produces ambitious, large-scale multimedia projects across multiple platforms.
She formerly served as Vanity Fair's Creative Director and Deputy Editor; she worked as Deputy Editor and Director of Visual Enterprise at Time magazine; and she was Deputy Photo Editor for The New York Times Magazine. She is a two time Emmy award-winner and has been recognized twice by both the American Society of Magazine Editors and the Art Directors Club of America . She was named the Photo Editor of the Year by the Lucie Foundation.
Pollack is known world-wide as a creative leader with an impeccable eye and an innovative vision who pushes the boundaries of visual storytelling. Her wide-ranging expertise encompasses enterprise journalism, documentary film, interactive media, social media, and all forms of multimedia. At Vanity Fair, she received acclaim for recruiting new and diverse photographers to shoot the magazine's cover, including Collier Schorr, Dario Calmese, Adrienne Raquel and Maurizio Cattelan. At Time, Pollack's tenure was marked by her continual innovation: She founded Red Border Films, Time’s first documentary film unit (now known as Time Studios); she launched the popular photo blog, LightBox; and she oversaw the curation of Time’s Instagram feed, amassing an audience of millions. She is a dynamic leader who finds and recruits diverse talents and builds effective and highly motivated creative teams. Pollack lectures on photography and storytelling at schools and conferences around the world. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
AWARDS
Primetime Emmy Award: “PBS: A Year in Space”
News and Documentary Emmy Award: “Beyond 9/11” TED Talk: What Makes a Photograph Influential?
Lucie Award for Photo Editor of the Year -Time
Art Directors Club: Best in Publication Design -Vanity Fair Author, 100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time -Time Five National Magazine Awards -Time and Vanity Fair World Press Photo of the Year: Bibi Aisha -Time World Press Multimedia Project of the Year: “Finding Home” -Time Four Webby Awards - Vanity Fair and Time Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in electronic journalism - Time
PHOTOGRAPHERS
James Nachtwey, Steven Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Collier Schorr, Ryan McGinley, Dario Calmese, ADrienne Raquel, Ina Jang, Mark Seliger, Maurizio Cattelan + Pierpaolo Ferrari, Peter van Agtmael, Paolo Pellegrin, Alex Majoli, Marco Grob, Yuri Kozyrev, Deana Lawson, Yuri Kozyrev, Gillian Laub, Adrienne Raquel, Dana Scruggs, Gregory Crewdson, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Horacio Salinas, Peter Hapak,