Lizabeth Ronk Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

Photo editor and researcher for print and web travel features.

Visual Curator for Microsoft - Curate and identify high-impact visual assets from agencies such as Getty Images for The Create Team’s use in Microsoft consumer products. Contract position through end of 2023.

Greater New York City Area

Premium content curator - Offset (photo) and Select (video).Curate and publish 40,000 images per month using an internal web based review system and provide feedback to photographers and agencies to create more successful submissions. Create efficiencies in the editing process as the sole curator of premium content, including photo and video.Curate OFFSET homepage on a monthly basis to drive visibility and revenue to the collection.Collaborate across teams including Marketing, Sales and Biz Ops to ensure the success of the brand. Participate in a SCRUM based environment with daily stand-ups, collaborative 1:1s and bi-weekly sprints working within a JIRA environment. Evaluate portfolios and mentor recipients for The Create Fund, a DEI initiative which offers opportunities to under-represented artists.Create training, collaborate and mentor junior photo editors and new hires.

Greater New York City Area

Commissioned original artwork, researched, and sourced imagery from agencies, individual photographers, artists and archives for bookazine and trade books.Negotiated exclusive rights with individuals and agencies in collaboration with the in-house legal team.Coordinated all licenses, image clearances, and invoicing all while staying within a set budgetHired photographers and coordinated photo shoot production from start to finish including call sheets, budgets, studio and equipment rental and all shoot-related documentation.Archived and stored all documentation, usage reports, and imagery related to each title in a Digital asset management system.Collaborated with editors and art directors on the visual direction of books.Served as freelance photo editor from 2013-2017, with a focus on historical bookazines published on a quarterly basis (4-5 books per year).Worked as staff photo editor from 2017-2020, working on a wide range of bookazines with topics such as health, history, pop culture, current events/journalism, tributes and lifestyle (20 books per year).Along with the books, I also ran and curated the @LIFE Instagram feed growing it to over 3 million followers.https://www.instagram.com/life/

Greater New York City Area

Photo Editor, LIFE.com http://time.com/photography/life/Producer: LIFEVR - Remembering Pearl Harbor: http://interactives.time.com/lifevr/#projects•Photo editor, researcher and curator of LIFE.com on Time.com•Digitally restore and sequence images to tell visual stories through previously published and never before seen images •Producer, original videos/multimedia slideshows using the LIFE archive•Manage social media accounts for the brand: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram•Contribute to Lightbox on TIME.com and special projects for TIME Magazine•Special projects include One Dream microsite for Red Border Films from wireframes to finished product: http://content.time.com/time/onedream/Previously also:Weekly photo desk duties on TIME.com including home page image placement and researching images for all verticals on TIME.comContribute archival stories to the Style and Design vertical on TIME.com

New York, New York, United States

•Curated online photo galleries with topics ranging from classic LIFE essays, celebrity, current news events and assignments which led to over a billion page views on LIFE.com•Collaborated with PR and Business Development to promote and drive additional traffic to LIFE.com•Managed image licensing, photo contracts and fee negotiating with agencies and photographers

New York, New York, United States

•Maintained and serviced clients for the lead sales executive •Negotiated fees and closed sales of video and images, averaging $40,000 per week

New York, New York, United States

•Pitched content, negotiated fees and licensed high-end celebrity portraiture to clients within North America•Maintained and developed a client roster with a focus on weeklies, women’s and lifestyle magazines, broadcast and web •Grew Contour revenue in the US Broadcast client base, tripling the numbers within the first six months•Collaborated with the production team to determine workflow of incoming art based on constantly changing demand

New York, New York, United States

•Organized gallery artist Christian Holstad’s digital archive in preparation for future book publication•Cataloged over 1000 images and developing a universal system to easily retrieve and identify art for both the Holstad archive and other gallery artists

Los Angeles, California, United States

•Supervised 15 staff members including archivists, researchers, production and interns•Archived and edited the photographic art for 20 of the top producing international photographers including Rankin, Steven Klein and Robert Erdmann •Primary liaison between the art department and the sales and marketing teams to ensure the easy transition of raw art to prepared productions for sale, website uploads and publicist approval.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Photography

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa - Visual Culture And Photography