Jury 2010

Amy Feitelberg

PHOTO-EDITOR, OUTSIDE MAGAZINE (USA)

Proving that there’s always a way back from the road taken, Amy Feitelberg found her way back to photography after a stint as a journalist. After writing for Rolling Stone, Harper's Bazaar, Premiere and Entertainment Weekly, she completed her Master’s at NUY’s International Center of Photography and won a scholarship at the School of Photography in Prague before becoming a photo editor at Outside Magazine.

After two years of finding pictures for some of the world’s best freelance writers in outdoor travel literature, what is a typical day like? "I look at tons of promos, a million emails, go to meetings, brainstorm ideas and spend the rest of the day trying to execute those ideas."

What Amy loves about photography is how "you have to stop what you're doing and look at the photo." Connected with photography’s ability to distill time, she think that the art has a special way of exploring an individual’s sense of self and space. "I use photographic images to illustrate the subjects' sense of self. I wait for a break in form - the moment just before the mask is replaced. For me, a great photo has intimacy, technique, a vision, a voice, composition, a point of view and ambiguity."

Why does she want to get involved with Red Bull Illume? "I’m looking forward to seeing fresh, new exciting images and discovering new photographers who haven't been on my radar."

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