Kira Pollack

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Behind the Powerful Portraits of 'Silence Breakers' in TIME's Person of the Year Issue

For the cover of TIME’s 2017 Person of the Year, we commissioned the photographer team known as Billy & Hells to make a group portrait of “The Silence Breakers”—women whose individual acts of courage have...

By Kira Pollack

How We Created TIME Magazine's First iPhone Portfolio

Talent often surfaces when you aren't really expecting it. Last summer, I came across the work of a young Brazilian photographer named Luisa Dörr while I was browsing Instgram. I had never heard of her,...

By Kira Pollack

Behind the FIRSTS Project: How Luisa Dörr Shot 12 TIME Covers On Her iPhone

For Firsts, TIME commissioned photographer Luisa Dörr to make portraits of 46 women who are changing the world. TIME's Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise Kira Pollack came across Dörr's work serendipitously on Instagram and...

By Kira Pollack

Women in Photography: 34 Voices From Around the World

34 experts select the women photographers that are impacting photography today

By Katherine Pomerantz and Kira Pollack

The Story Behind TIME's Year-Long Multimedia Project 'Finding Home'

TIME's director of photography Kira Pollack introduces "Finding Home"

By Kira Pollack

The Story Behind TIME's 100 Most Influential Photos

Many international curators, historians, editors and photographers participated

By Kira Pollack

The Top 10 Photos of 2015

Carefully culled from thousands, TIME selects the best photos of the year

By TIME Photo and Kira Pollack

TIME Picks the Top Magazine Covers of 2015

Here are the magazine covers that moved and delighted us in 2015

By Kira Pollack

Rum, Rhythm and Revolution: Joakim Eskildsen in Eastern Cuba

Photographer Joakim Eskildsen gives us a rare glimpse of Eastern Cuba, a region that differs greatly from the cosmopolitanism of Havana city.

By Kira Pollack

Maurizio Cattelan's Magic Show: The Best Fashion Portfolio You May Have Missed

New York Magazine published its annual Spring fashion issue, which featured a striking, twenty-four page portfolio by the artist Maurizio Cattelan and fashion photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. TIME's Kira Pollack interviews New York Magazine's Jody Quon about the unique work.

By Kira Pollack

Behind the Obama Cover: Person of the Year 2012

Behind the scenes with photographer Nadav Kander on TIME's cover shoot for Person of the Year 2012: President Barack Obama.

By Kira Pollack

TIME Picks the Top Photographic Magazine Covers of 2012

The best photographs don’t always make the best covers. Here, TIME presents our picks for the top 10 photographic magazine covers of 2012.

By Kira Pollack

'Home Works' by Joakim Eskildsen

Joakim Eskildsen’s latest body of work explores the poetry of place through the different homes to which he has moved his family over the past seven years, on display later this week at the 17th edition of Paris Photo.

By Kira Pollack

Inside the Mind of a Master Photo Editor

As Aperture releases a new book that chronicles the New York Times Magazine’s iconic images over the last three decades, Kira Pollack reflects on the vision and influence of its longtime photo editor, Kathy Ryan.

By Kira Pollack

Recognizing the Next Generation: Peter van Agtmael at the Infinity Awards

Last night, Peter van Agtmael was awarded the prestigious Infinity Award for Young Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography. Kira Pollack, Director of Photography at TIME, reflects on the importance of...

By Kira Pollack

Channeling Margaret Mead: Photographs by Devin Tepleski

Canadian photographer and filmmaker Devin Tepleski captures a surreal series of portraits of men, women and children in the Black Volta river before the river was dammed to flood a 440-square-kilometer gorge.

By Kira Pollack

Double Vision: Valérie Belin's Black Eyed Susan

Valerie Belin's latest series "Black Eyed Susan" turns her lens on a dreamy montage of women who embody the ideal post-war female, interlaid with sharp images of flowers.

By Kira Pollack
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