As Deputy Editor of Time, Pollack directed news and feature coverage, produced award-winning enterprise journalism and led teams that produced special projects. Prior to her Deputy Editor role, she was Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise, leading Time’s visual coverage of international and national news stories and directing all photography across the brand including the art direction of hundreds of covers. A transformative, creative leader, Pollack won two Emmys and pushed the boundaries of visual storytelling with her incredibly talented team. She founded Red Border films, Time’s first documentary filmmaking unit; she created LightBox, Time’s award-winning photo blog; and she oversaw the Time Instagram feed, a rich canvas for storytelling in real time and a critical extension of Time's identity. Pollack was recognized at Time for her enterprise, taste, leadership and innovation.
Editors-in-Chief: Richard Stengel, Nancy Gibbs, Edward Felsenthal. Design Director: DW Pine (2009-2017)
Scenes from Libya: The Arab Spring | Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev
Syrian Refugee Crisis, Europe Photographs by James Nachtwey
Fukushima Photographs by James Nachtwey
Afghanistan Photograph by James Nachtwey
Healing Bobby Photograph by Peter van Agtmael
Mark Zuckerberg, Time Magazine’s 2010 Person of the Year | Photograph by Martin Schoeller
Beyond 9/11
Director, Producer, Project Lead
This project was timed to the ten-year anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks on the United States. Pollack directed 46 short documentaries and photographs by Marco Grob, featuring interviews with notable figures involved in 9/11 and its aftermath and including Pollack's own interview with President George W. Bush. The project included an Emmy award winning interactive website, an HBO documentary, an exhibition in New York City, and a special print issue that was later chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) as Magazine of the Year.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Photograph by Diana Walker
Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers, the voices that launched the #MeToo Movement | Photographs by Billy and Hells
FIRSTS
Editorial Director, Project Lead and Executive Producer In 2016, when Hillary Clinton became the first female major-party nominee for President, Pollack was inspired to create a multimedia project highlighting other American women who broke barriers in a variety of fields. Pollack and her team created a list of 46 pioneering athletes, scientists, lawmakers, entertainers and entrepreneurs, and she assigned Luisa Dörr, a young Brazilian photographer she had discovered on Instagram, to photograph the women across the country. The project resulted in a historic 12 covers, a 36-page portfolio in the print magazine, a book and dozens of short videos.
The Opioid Diaries
Editorial Director and Project Lead Pollack commissioned the photographer James Nachtwey to spend a year documenting the Opioid crisis throughout the United States. Nachtwey's powerful work was showcased in an entire issue of Time, the first such photo gallery by a single photographer in the magazine's 95-year history. Not only did Pollack produce all of the photography, she also assembled and oversaw a team of reporters, editors, designers and engineers across Time’s staff to contextualize the issue for print and digital.
Finding Home
Editorial Director and Executive Producer In 2016, Pollack envisioned a year-long multimedia project on the refugee crisis as told through the lives of four babies born in different refugee camps. Through photography, reporting and video, Lynsey Addario, Aryn Baker and Francesca Trianni reported on the babies' lives from the moment of their births through the uncertain first year of their lives while their parents searched for homes. The project resulted in a feature film directed by Francesca Trianni.
