New Yorker Photo Editor: 'It's About More Than the Picture That Gets Published'

Seattle native Whitney C. Johnson is back in her hometown to give a lecture at the Seattle Art Museum.

Ahead of the museum talk, she spoke via telephone with The Stranger visual arts writer Jen Graves about her seven years on the job as one of The New Yorker‘s team of photo editors. At one point during the informative Q&A, Johnson – now the director of photography – outlined her admirable big-picture M.O.:

“I try to assign photographers assignments that can contribute to a person’s body of work.

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