November Fashion Magazine Report Card
November 11, 2019Each month we review popular U.S. fashion magazines to uncover trends in hiring female photographers for editorial features* and cover stories.
This month we grazed the November 2019 issues of ELLE, Vogue, Marie Claire, Allure and W magazines.
Overview:
5 Magazines
5 Female Editors-In-Chief
2 Covers by a Female Photographer
22+ Features
8 Female photographers
23 Male photographers
1* Black photographer
November wasn’t the worst month for female-identifying fashion photographers, especially if you get in to the magazine page counts. Zoey Grossman shot Elle’s Women in Hollywood Issue (a nice comeback for the magazine after their October Women in Music feature was photographed exclusively by men). Grossman not only took the cover but 21 pages of portraits.
Betina Du Toit racked up 16 gorgeous pages in Marie Claire this month. And finally, while W Magazine commissioned more than 80% male photographers, they did serve us some exquisite photos by Maripol and one image by the only black female photographer included this month, Ruth Ossai. Whether or not this was a pick-up image or a paid assignment is not known.
Vogue
EIC: Anna Wintour
Features: 8
Womxn photographers: 1
Black photographers: 0
ELLE
EIC: Nina Garcia
Features: 3
Womxn photographers: 1 (Cover)
Black photographers: 0
Marie Claire
EIC: Anne Fulenwider
Features: 2*
Womxn photographers: 1
Black photographers: 0
*Technically there were 5 features in the well, but only two of them commissioned original photography.
Allure
EIC: Michelle Lee
Features: 3*
Womxn Photographers: 3 (Cover)
Black photographers: 0
W Magazine
EIC: Sara Moonves
Features: 6
Womxn photographers: 2*
Black photographers: 1
*This issue contained a lot of photography that was provided by the artists that were featured, therefore it was difficult to determine which photographers were commissioned or if the images were “picked up” in one of the magazine’s features.
Resources for finding diverse photographers: Alreadymade, GirlGaze, Trove Artist Management, Equal Lens, F Collective, Authority Collective, Diversify Photo, & more.
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*The fine print: Features refers to the number of feature stories in the ‘well’ of the magazine that included new commissioned photography. EIC = Editor-in-Chief. We are not always able to conclude how a specific photographer identifies either by race or gender, if we have reported anything in error, please contact us.