Elisabeth Biondi has been an independent curator, teacher and writer since 2011. Before that time, she was the Visuals Editor of The New Yorker for 15 yearswhere she shaped the look of thepublication by establishing a group of staff photographers, commissioning both masters an emerging talent. Elisabeth built the magazine’s reputation for its use of photography, for which itreceived numerous awards, including two National Magazine Awards. Her independent curating includes: Subjective/Objective and Under the Bridge for the New York PhotoFestival and New Yorker Fiction/Real Photography at Steven Kasher Gallery; Beyond Words, at the Howard Greenberg Gallery and Ullens Center in Beijing; and REFUGEE at the Annenberg Center for Photography. Most recently she was a judge in the eight-episodeSky Arts ‘Master of Photography’ series, which aired in 2018 and again in 2019.