"This Is The Time To Dream" Day 5

Our first meeting of three today was a Human Rights Watch with Emma Daly. She gave us a really great explanation of what human rights watch does as an organization and what some of the major successes over the years for them has been. To define that a little bit better, successes are when their published content actually caused laws/policies to be changed for the better. The photographers they use for images are pretty selective, usually the best of the best. Although she wasn't totally against us emailing when we move to a foreign country and start working on a project.
Second was The New Yorker magazine. That was such a breath of fresh air because it is such a different publication than any of the others we visited this week. Whitney Johnson explained to us that they spend a heavy amount of time on research and deliberation on what stories would be beneficial for the readers and what photographer would be perfect for the job. They plan deadlines months, if not almost a year in advance and really focus in on what's important. They have a circulation of 1 million but their demographic is pretty tight on an older and well educated group. The magazine is word driven, the photographs need to be absolutely spot on. One photograph is usually published per story, that one image has to encompass an entire 3,000 word essay (no pressure).
Our third stop today was Time Magazine. What I loved about this meeting was how positive, hard working and dedicated all of the staff members we met seemed to be. They all expressed during their presentations how much they loved their job - and how cool it is that they get to do what they enjoy the most. This was really inspiring especially since we met more than one individual that were close to our age. The work that Vaughn, Jonathan and Patrick were high quality, moving and powerful images. The photo department at Time really act as their own branch of the company and have freedom to produce what they are passionate about/what they feel is relevant to this point in time. We grilled them with questions and they were so gracious enough to tell stories from their careers and how they came to learn and be who they are today. It was a really inspiring meeting, we even got to see the studio after!