October Fashion Magazine Report Card
October 15, 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 October 2019 issues of ELLE, Vogue, Marie Claire, and Harper’s Bazaar magazines.
Overview:
4 Magazines
4 Female Editors-In-Chief
1 Cover by a Female Photographer
23+ Features
2* Female photographers
15 Male photographers
0* Black photographers
October was not a progressive month for female-identifying photographers, snatching up less than 15% of the features we reviewed. Even more disappointing, ELLE’s Women in Music feature was photographed exclusively by men and Marie Claire’s 25 Women Changing the Future feature was also photographed by men or used pickup/stock photography. *Marie Claire ran the feature Dior Photography Awards for Young Talent which included the work of 3 female photographers, but technically all of the magazine’s commissioned features this month were shot by white male photographers.
Here’s the full breakdown:
Vogue
EIC: Anna Wintour
Features: 8
Womxn photographers: 2 (Cover, 3 features)
Black photographers: 0
ELLE
EIC: Nina Garcia
Features: 2
Womxn photographers: 0
Black photographers: 0
Marie Claire
EIC: Anne Fulenwider
Features: 6+
Womxn Photographers: 0*
Black photographers: 0*
Harper’s Bazaar
EIC: Glenda Bailey
Features: 7
Womxn photographers: 0
Black photographers: 0
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. If we have reported anything in error, please contact us.
