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AI-AP JURIES 2026
The two panels of art, photo and design creative professionals who commission photography and illustration will select the winning collections for publication in the two hardcover annual award books.
American Photography 42 Jury
• Sally Berman, Visuals Director, Run Red Creative
Currently serving as the Visual Director for Men’s Health & Women’s Health magazine. Previously she was the Photography Director for music publications including XXL, Billboard, RESPECT, and Mass Appeal. In her free-time she has curated the photography for books titled DECODED by Jay Z, Beastie Boys Book, Le Freak by Nile Rodgers, The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, amongst others. Recently she curated Hip-Hop Conscious, UnConscious, a landmark exhibition for Fotografiska Museum celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop.
• Claire Caple, Visuals Coordinator, National Geographic
Claire Caple is a visual producer at National Geographic whose work centers on photography, image curation, and the orchestration of complex creative projects. She leads production for the Bookazine team and assists with the production of the Monthly magazine.
• Chris Dougherty, Creative Consultant
Chris Dougherty is a Creative Content and Operations Consultant and award-winning creative executive with more than 25 years of experience shaping visual storytelling at leading editorial brands including PEOPLE, New York Magazine, and The New York Post.
• Amelia Holowaty Krales, Senior Photo Editor, The Verge
Amelia Holowaty Krales (she/her) is a documentary, portrait and still-life photographer based in New York City. She is the Senior Photo Editor at The Verge. Krales' work has appeared in Vox, Condé Nast Traveler and NBC among others. Her work has been recognized by American Photography, she is a Fulbright grantee and has contributed to work recognized by ASME and Peabody.
• Daisy Korpics, Photo Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Daisy Korpics is a Brooklyn-based photo editor and photo illustrator working primarily on the Business section at The Wall Street Journal. Her photo editing work spans documentary, still-life, portraiture, travel, and conceptual photography. She was previously a photo editor at Fast Company magazine and a teaching assistant and intern at The International Center of Photography. She attended Parsons School of Design with a focus on photography and The New School for Social Research focusing on psychology.
• Virginia Lozano, Senior Photo Editor, NPR
Virginia Lozano is a Senior Photo Editor at NPR working on long-form visual projects. She produces photo essays for NPR’s Picture Show focused on race and identity and has led NPR’s international and U.S. immigration photo coverage. Previously, she edited at The New York Times, where she helped lead 2020 election photo coverage and investigative projects. She has also photographed and edited for The Intercept and The Detroit News and is an alumna of the University of Michigan.
• Mark Murrmann, Photo Director, Mother Jones / Center for Investigative Reporting
Mark Murrmann is Photo Director at Mother Jones and the Center for Investigative Reporting. He oversees and assigns all photography for the website and magazine. He has been at Mother Jones since 2007, having previously been a freelance photojournalist and music writer. He teaches documentary photography at City College of San Francisco, is a writer, a former board member of SF Camerawork and remains an active photographer who regularly self-publishes photozines.
• Evan Ortiz, Art Director, Photo, Airbnb
Evan Ortiz is an award-winning creative leader, heart-centered visual storyteller with over a decade of experience shaping visual narratives across editorial, product, and AI-driven content. He is currently an Art Director, Photo at Airbnb, where he guides visual strategy from concept through execution. Evan partners closely with photographers, designers, writers, producers, and cross-functional stakeholders to create work that feels as intentional as it is impactful. His background spans photography across many genres—travel, portraiture, documentary, and brand, giving him a wide visual vocabulary and a strong editorial instinct. Across mediums and industries, his work is grounded in clarity, collaboration, and emotional resonance. At the center of his practice is a belief that design and imagery are more than aesthetic choices, they are cultural, human, and deeply alive. He is committed to elevating underrepresented voices, building systems that protect creativity at scale, and crafting experiences that aren’t just seen—but felt.
• Emmalee Reed, Photo Editor, CNN
Emmalee Reed is a photo editor at CNN. She was part of the team that won Pictures of the Year’s Angus McDougall Excellence in Editing award in 2024. She holds a master’s degree in photo editing and a bachelor’s in photojournalism from the University of Missouri. Originally from Olathe, Kansas, Reed now lives in Brooklyn with her orange cat, Scout.
• Cate Sturgess, Vanity Fair
• Amanda Webster, Photo Editor, The New York Times
Amanda Webster is a photo editor at The New York Times. Prior to The Times, Amanda was a photo editor at The Wall Street Journal Magazine. She holds a BFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology, and has worked with artists on a wide range of projects, including Memory City by Alex Webb and Magnum Photos’ Rochester 585/716: A Postcard from America Project.
• Cassidy Zobl, Deputy Creative Director, Road & Track Magazine
With more than 20 years as a director and designer, Cassidy has spent her career turning ideas into striking imagery. Her experience as a creative director in both media and advertising has given her an international reach that has strengthened her skills and won recognition from clients and readers around the world. She currently makes up half the art and design team at Road & Track, where she’s involved in every stage of the visual process—from art direction and photo editing to layout design and pre-production.
American Illustration 45 Jury
• Josh Cochran, Art Director, The New Yorker
Josh Cochran is an artist, muralist, and art director based in Brooklyn, originally from California and Taiwan. His practice spans children's books, editorial illustration, large-scale public murals, and installations, with work commissioned by publications and institutions including The New Yorker, Apple, SXSW, The Criterion Collection, and the NYC Department of Transportation. He has received a Grammy nomination for album artwork. Josh also teaches illustration at the School of Visual Arts.
• Victoria Escobar, Designer, The New York Times Magazine
Victoria Escobar is a Brooklyn-based graphic designer originally from Miami, Florida. A 2021 graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, she currently designs and art directs for The New York Times Magazine, contributing to both print and digital storytelling. Her work has been recognized by organizations such as The Society of Publication Designers, The Art Directors Club, and The Type Directors Club.
• Toby Fox, Art Director, Rolling Stone
Award-winning art director Toby Fox is a specialist in magazine and book design with more than 25 years of experience in publishing. Her work spans a wide range of titles, including Rolling Stone, The Knot, Saveur, Garden Design, and Reader’s Digest. She has also designed custom magazines for American Express Custom Publishing, as well as books for Simon & Schuster, Rodale, John Wiley & Sons, and Chronicle Books. Toby lives in New Jersey.
• Emily Glaubinger, Associate Design Director, Print & Pattern, Anthropologie Home
Emily Glaubinger is the head of Print & Pattern at Anthropologie Home, where her whimsical, expressive approach to illustration and surface design has helped shape the brand’s distinctive visual voice. Leading creative direction across the brand, she brings a deep love of storytelling through pattern, color, and craft to every project. Emily began her career in the early 2000s making gig posters and hand screen-printing editions, and has since illustrated album covers, designed bicycles, collaborated with makers across disciplines, and created work ranging from intimate watercolors to large-scale public murals. She lives in Philadelphia, where her ongoing obsession with color, texture, and playful detail seeps into every aspect of her life alongside her husband and son, Otis.
• Sarah Grillo, Managing Editor of Visuals, Axios
Sarah is an editorial illustrator, art director, and cartoonist based out of NYC. In addition to Axios, her work has been featured in the book Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less—for which she also contributed a chapter on “art brevity”—as well as on HBO, Eater, and Atlas Obscura. Her comic work includes multiple contributions to the ongoing series WAIT...It Gets Worse and their recent hardcover omnibus, and will be featured in the anthology Real Life Comix! Only in New York, alongside accomplished cartoonists from the New Yorker, MAD, and American Splendor, set to publish later this year.
• Marina Grinshpun, Senior Art Director, Robb Report
Marina Grinshpun is an accomplished art director with a background spanning both print and digital media. She currently serves as Creative Director at Robb Report magazine. Marina’s past credits include publications such as Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Traveler, and National Geographic. She loves collaborating with illustrators to shape engaging visual narratives.
• Sara Loane, Creative Director, Al Majalla
Sara Loane is a multidisciplinary creative with deep roots in London’s magazine scene. Her work spans print, digital, writing, short films, photography, design exhibitions and events – but illustration is her true playground. For the major relaunch of Al Majalla, the Arab world’s leading current affairs magazine – first published in 1980 in London – she introduced a bold new visual direction and a distinctly creative approach to storytelling, powered by a global network of illustrators. Her leadership and output have earned industry recognition and international awards. As for her Arabic, it remains a heroic work in progress, proving that visual language is where she’s most fluent.
• Randy Minor, Senior Art Director, New York
Randy Minor is the senior art director at New York magazine and has been with the publication for 22 years and produced over 900 issues. His work has been recognized by ASME, SPD and D&AD.
• Linda Rubes, Art Director, The Wall Street Journal
Linda Rubes is currently art director for the Personal Journal and Arts in Review sections of the Wall Street Journal. Prior to that, she had worked at a wide variety of publications including Fortune Magazine, WWD, PRINT, Food + Wine and McKinsey special projects. Her art direction has been recognized by American Illustration, Communication Arts, PRINT and the Society of Publication Designers. She is based in the New York metropolitan area.
• Ploy Siripant, Senior Art Director, HarperCollins
Ploy Siripant is a Senior Art Director at HarperCollins, where she designs and art directs covers for the William Morrow imprints. Previously, she was an Art Director at Little, Brown and Company and has collaborated on cover designs across all five major publishing houses. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.
• Lizzie Soufleris, Visuals Editor, Architectural Digest
• Raghuram Vadarevu, Senior Editor, The Marshall Project
Raghu Vadarevu is a senior editor at The Marshall Project, focusing on visual journalism and new storytelling initiatives. Raghu has served as art and creative director for award-winning illustrations, animations, comics, art installation, long-form video and immersive web presentations. Among them: “Remember Me,” a project he envisioned that memorialized people who were murdered and whose cases are unsolved in St. Louis through evocative, joyful portraits that were accompanied by audio reflections from their families. In addition to his visual work, Raghu has also led and edited breaking news coverage, moving features and impactful investigative projects. 
AI-AP Committee
Kathy Ryan, Chair Emeritus
Fred Woodward, Chair Emeritus
Mark Heflin, Director
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AI-AP Founding Committee 1982
Edward Booth Clibborn, Booth-Clibborn Editions
Julian Allen, Artist/Illustrator (1942–1998)
Marshall Arisman, Artist/Illustrator, SVA MFA Program (1938-2022)
Sue Coe, Artist/Illustrator
Mark Crawford, Time Capsul
Steven Heller, The New York Times Book Review
Nigel Holmes, Time
Linda Johnson, Tonight
Robert Priest, Esquire
Mary Shanahan, Rolling Stone
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