Photography by Kathy Ryan
Natasha Lunn is an award-winning Director of Photography specializing in editorial and branded content. She is currently the Visual Director at Harper’s Bazaar. Previously she launched Airbnb Magazine with Hearst Publications and led the photo direction and team. Prior to this, Natasha was a Contributing Photo Editor at The New York Times Magazine and Director of Photography at More magazine. Under her leadership, More won multiple awards for photography, including three gold medals from the Society of Publication Designers (SPD).
Previously, Lunn was a Contributing Photo Editor at T: The New York Times Style magazine and Deputy Photo Editor of The New Yorker. She also served as New York Bureau Editor of US News & World Report and as an editorial agent at Magnum Photos, NY. At Magnum, she discovered Paul Fusco’s RFK’s Funeral train 1968 in the archives of the Library of Congress which had languished there unseen for 30 years and was later published by Aperture (2008). She has curated several exhibitions of photography, including ‘Photography Now 2008’ at 401 Projects and David Rubinger’s Israel Through My Lens at the 92nd Street Y. Additionally, she was the photo director for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Looming Tower, Al-Qaeda and The Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright and subsequent film My Trip to Al-Qaeda “2010” produced by award-winning documentary director Alex Gibney. A lecturer at the International Center for Photography , Parsons School of Design and School of Visual Arts. Lunn is a member of ASME and also served on the board of SPD (Society of Puilication Designers) from 2011-2014 and is currently an advisor. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
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