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Joe Gallo, recently named an svp, group creative director at Draft, initially had considered a career in photojournalism. But his interviews with local newspapers following his graduation from the American Academy of Art in Chicago led him to look elsewhere.
“There was sort of a curmudgeon factor I was going up against—it was like, ‘Work on the [photo desk] for a while, and maybe if you’re lucky, you’ll get to go out and take a picture,’ ” recalled the 50-year-old art director, who had studied photography and commercial art at the academy.
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