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Matthew Bates named Director of Photography at Eddie Bauer

Matthew Bates has been named Director of Photography at Eddie Bauer.

After being connected with Backpacker for nearly 13 years and most recently serving as the Creative Director for AIM's Outdoor and Home Groups, Bates is currently the Director of Photography for Eddie Bauer in the Seattle area. 

Anna Alexander, New PD at dwell

Anna Alexander has been named the Photo Director at dwell. She had been Deputy Photo Editor at WIRED.


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Judith Puckett-Rinella, New DP at Vanity Fair

Judith Puckett-Rinella has been named the new Director of Photography at Vanity Fair with Design Director Chris Dixon. She has been Senior Photo Editor at T, The New York Times Style Magazine.


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Amy Berkley, New DP at Bloomberg Markets

Amy Berkley is the new Director of Photography at Bloomberg Markets magazine, working with CD Siung Tjia. She was previously Photo Director of Field and Stream and Outdoor Life magazines.

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Natalie Gialluca, New PE at The Knot

Natalie Gialluca is the new Photo Editor at The Knot. She had been with Meredith's More for the past five years, most recently as Assistant Photo Editor.

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Ronnie Weil, New PD for Travelzoo.com

Ronnie Weil has been named the new Director of Photography for Travelzoo.com. She had been DP at BusinessWeek.

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Alan Taylor, New PE for TheAtlantic.com

Alan Taylor is the new photo-blogger for TheAtlantic.com. He was the founder and creative director for Boston.com's The Big Picture, featured often on SPD Grids. (See here and here.)


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Scott Hall, New DP at Newsweek/The Daily Beast

Scott Hall is the new Director of Photography with Creative Director Dirk Barnett for the new Newsweek / Daily Beast enterprise. He had been a Photo Editor at T, The New York Times Style Magazine.

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Nadia Vellam, New DP at WSJ. Magazine

Nadia Vellam, formerly Photo Editor for W, has been named the new Director of Photography at WSJ. Magazine.

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Hollywood Reporter Hires 2 New Top Creatives

Shanti Marlar is leaving Us Weekly as Design Director to be Creative Director of the new Hollywood Reporter weekly in Los Angeles. Joining her in the move and at the new HR will be Photo Director Jennifer Laski, who has been freelancing and consulting after her positions as Photo Director of Departures and Photo Editor of More.

Jennifer Miller, New DP at New York

New York Magazine's hunt for a new Director of Photography is over: they've named Jennifer Miller, currently DP at Cosmopolitan, to the position, with a start date after the Labor Day holiday -- just in time for Fashion Week! Miller has been the DP for Hearst's Cosmo since last year, and before that was DP at Jane. She replaces Jody Quon, who left to take the Creative Director position at W earlier this Spring.


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Jody Quon Named CD at W

WWD reports today (and they would know) that Jody Quon, longtime Director of Photography at New York, has been named Creative Director for W by the magazine's new Editor-in-Chief Stefano Tonchi.

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Jodi Peckman Named CD at Rolling Stone

Buried at the end of last Thursday's Memo Pad: Jodi Peckman, longtime Director of Photography at Rolling Stone, has been named Creative Director there.


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Amy Koblenzer, new DP at T+L

Amy Koblenzer, Photo Editor at Gourmet until its untimely end this fall, is the new Photo Director for Travel + Leisure with CD Bernard Scharf.


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Toby Kaufmann, New DP at Maxim

Maxim CD Dirk Barnett has a new DP with Toby Kaufmann. She was previously at GQ, Penthouse, and Stuff.

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Ryan Cadiz, New DP at Money

Ryan Cadiz, formerly the DP at late, beloved Best Life, is the new DP at Money. Also new to their photo team there is Ryan Mesina, now Associate Photo Editor, who moved over from the photo department at Real Simple.

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Kira Pollack, New DP at Time

WWD reports this morning that Kira Pollack, formerly PE at The New York Times Magazine and now-shuttered Play, The New York Times Sports Magazine, is the new Director of Photography at TIME and time.com. She makes the third person in the position in just over a year, after MaryAnne Golon left after 24 years in June of 2008, and then-acting DP Alice Gabriner left the magazine in March to join the White House as photo editor and deputy director of their photo office (and Flickr pool?).


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Katie Schad, New Director of Photography at Oprah

Jennifer Crandall has left her position as Director of Photography at O, the Oprah Magazine. Katie Schad will be the new DP for the magazine with Design Director Kerry Robertson.

Jordan Barnes, New PD at Seventeen

Jordan Barnes has been named the new PD at Seventeen. She had been freelancing at Real Simple, and before that was part of the photo departments at InStyle Special Issues and O, the Oprah Magazine.