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Alyssa Ortega Coppelman is an independent photo editor and photobook consultant based in Austin, Texas. For two decades, she served as half of the art department at Harper’s Magazine, most recently as Deputy Art Director. Currently, she is Art Editor at the Oxford American, which won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2016 and has been nominated thrice since in that category. She is also the Archival Producer on the Emmy-nominated PBS NewsHour series, Brief But Spectacular, for which she sources creative visual accompaniment for short interviews with a wide variety of guests. Several artists she has pitched have been guests on the show.
Working directly with photographers, Alyssa provides oversight in editing, sequencing, design, and editorial aspects of photobook projects and portfolios. Alyssa serves as guest lecturer to undergraduate and graduate photography students, and enjoys the intensity of teaching day-long photo editing workshops.
Please email to inquire about photo editing, art and archival research, portfolio editing, and photobook consultation. I would love to work with you.
alyssa [at] alyssacoppelman [dot] com
PRESS
PDN Magazine interview with Holly Hughes
Lenscratch Mixtape interview
On Photolucida's Advisory Council
The Oxford American wins the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2016
UPCOMING
Updates to follow!
BLOGS
Adobe Create
Feature Shoot
Hatje Cantz's fotoblog
Slate's Behold blog
Vantage
WIRED Photo
PHOTOBOOKS
David Johnson, It Can Be This Way Always, 2021, University of Texas Press. Photo editor
Preston Gannaway, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Photo editor, book design
Sandy Carson, We Were There. Photo editor, design consultant
Alyssa Banta, The Texas Ranch Sisterhood, Arcadia Publishing. Photo editor
Lindsay Blatt and Paul Taggart, Herd in Iceland. Photo editor, book design
Justin Cook, Made in Durham. Photo editor
CLIENTS
Blue Rider Press
C3 Presents
Knopf Doubleday
Foreign Affairs
Harper’s Magazine
The Intercept
Mockingbird
Offset
Oxford American
That Moment When, for PBS NewsHour
@radical.media
Salesforce
Second Peninsula
Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan, for PBS
Undark Magazine, Science of Race special feature
PHOTO EDITING – A partial list of photographers I've worked with:
Aaron Huey
Ben Sklar
David Johnson
Ilana Panich-Linsman
Kiliii Yüyan
Kristian Thacker
Lindsay Blatt
Lisa Elmaleh
Lynsey Addario
Paul Taggart
Peter Turnley
Preston Gannaway
Sandy Carson
Theo Stroomer
JUROR/CURATOR
Center Forward at C4FAP, with Christy Havranek, June 2022
Critical Mass 2014-2020
The Curated Fridge, Summer 2019
Flash Forward 2015
Lenscratch, The Ides of March: Omens and Predictions
Portraits, A Smith Gallery
Singular/Signature, Center for Fine Art Photography
Slideluck Austin VI
Ben Sklar, solo show at Lower Left Gallery, Austin, TX
PORTFOLIO REVIEWS
Atlanta Celebrates Photography
Denver Month of Photography
Filter Photo Festival
Fotofest Houston
Medium San Diego
New England Portfolio Reviews
PhotoAlliance SF
Photolucida
PhotoNOLA
Review Santa Fe
SlowExposures
SPE South Central Portfolio Throwdown
EDUCATOR/PANELIST
C4FAP Online Workshop with HuffPo’s Christy Havranek. Oct. 15, 2022
Critical Business Practices for Photographers at CENTER’s Review Santa Fe, October 2021
Visiting Lecturer, The World of a Photo Editor, Center for Fine Art Photography, October 2021
i3 Photo Lecture, School of Visual Arts, June 2021
Mary Virginia Swanson’s Social Media Strategies for Visual Artists, Fotofest Houston, March 2020
Brigham Young University Visiting Lecturer, March 2019
PhotoNOLA Editing Workshop, 2018
Social Media Strategies for Artists, led by Mary Virginia Swanson at PhotoNOLA 2018
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, Visiting Lecturer, April 2018
Texas Woman's University, Department of Visual Arts, Denton, TX, Visiting Lecturer, April 2018
Hixon-Lied Visiting Artist, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, October 2017
Academy of Arts, San Francisco: Contemporary Topics in Photography, Visiting Lecturer, October 2017
Unseen Amsterdam, Making Photography Transparent: Q&A for Graduates, Panelist, September 2014
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