Jessica Dimson Biography

Jessica Dimson Named Deputy Director of Photography, The New York Times Magazine,  I’m thrilled to announce that Jessica Dimson is being promoted to deputy director of photography. This new senior position will be directed at creatively enhancing the visuals of The New York Times Magazine’s digital features, through photography, video and other multimedia.

Jessica’s new role will include her current responsibilities, helping Kathy Ryan in the day-to-day operations of the Photo department and contributing to the production of photography for the magazine. But Jessica will also be a key part of our current initiative to pioneer new forms of digital storytelling.

With the hiring of Blake Wilson as digital director and our search for a digital art director and lead developer, the cross-departmental team that will be focused on how our magazine lives online are beginning to take shape.

Jessica will be an important part of this effort. Jessica background in the newsroom will be helpful here. Jessica has not only a keen eye for what makes great magazine photography, but also Jessica spent time in a harder news environment and worked with our Graphics desk on narrative interactive experiences.

All of that will come in handy as we seek to experiment with how to expand the use of photography and video to tell our most important stories.

In this new role, Jessica will also be working to ensure that the photographs and videos for all of our stories are as successful as possible online, including on Instagram and other social media.

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Jessica Dimson Age

Jessica Dimson is 37 years old and was born on 12/04/1981.

Jessica Dimson Husband, Married

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24 Hours, 24 Kisses and 24 Magazine Covers – The New York Times

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There is something quintessentially New York about a couple kissing against the bustle of the city. Intimacy, whether it’s physical affection or a conversation, can happen in tightly packed spaces here.

“Being O.K. with having privacy in the context of busyness is a New York state of mind,” said Jake Silverstein, editor of The New York Times Magazine.

That’s the idea behind the 24 distinct covers for the magazine’s annual New York issue, out this weekend. The entire issue is dedicated to one day in New York, May 19, as seen through the lens of one four-letter word: love. And each cover features a different couple kissing.

From midnight to midnight, the issue features stories about romance, lust, heartache and everything in between. There’s a profile of a divorce attorney, a story of a fiancée’s visit to Rikers Island, a young couple’s trip to Ikea. This is love in all of its rawest forms.

But how to communicate that visually? For the photographer Ryan McGinley, the answer involved rigging a flatbed truck as a moving photo studio, to shoot couples kissing against the New York streetscape.

“I wanted to capture love in motion,” Mr. McGinley said. “Kissing on an open-air moving vehicle throughout New York City’s streets is my kind of romance.”

Some participants were cast by Mr. McGinley; others responded to a Times social-media callout that received 1,100 responses overnight.

In the end, the 24 couples chosen represent the diversity of New York — all ages, races and sexual orientations. Some had just started dating; others had been together for more than 40 years.

Mr. McGinley and his crew built a platform on the back of the truck so the couples would appear to be in midair (safely harnessed in, under the supervision of a safety and stunts coordinator). The crew also included Mr. McGinley’s team, the magazine’s photography department, and a two-car police escort.

There was even a kissing coach: Mr. McGinley’s choreographer, who suggested the occasional change in position during the couples’ 20-minute smooch sessions. Each couple chose a song to make out to, and the soundtrack ran the gamut: Maxwell, Kanye West, Lou Reed, Björk, Prince and Duke Ellington, to name a few.

The truck picked up four couples at a time, spread out across the city, starting at the stroke of midnight in the Bronx. Zipping across the city as the sun rose, rain began to fall.

“People always think the rain isn’t good for photos, but it’s actually great,” Mr. McGinley said. “The sky becomes a big lightbox and doesn’t cause any hard shadows on people’s faces; it’s actually really flattering. Who doesn’t want to kiss in the rain?”

It was all going well until it came to the Brooklyn Bridge. Even with a police escort, the truck didn’t have the right permits to cross the bridge. With only one-third of the couples photographed, the truck was shut down by the New York Police Department around 6 a.m.

That’s when Mr. McGinley’s team suggested renting a tour bus.

Everyone raced up to Eighth Avenue and hopped on the rented double-decker bus. The safety and special effects coordinator secured a new rig, and they were off.

Passers-by caught a glimpse of the kissing couples and cheered them on; groups of people on the sidewalk erupted into applause. A Mister Softee truck stopped at the same traffic light on Fifth Avenue next to the tour bus even offered cones.

And the couples were all themselves, without hesitation.

“Immediately it was like they were the only two people in the entire space,” said Jessica Dimson, deputy photography editor at the magazine. “The kissing in some ways relieves any camera consciousness that maybe posing in front of a camera might have. It relaxed a lot of people.”

The diversity and richness of the couples provided for a “life-changing experience,” said Kathy Ryan, the magazine’s director of photography.

“I was sitting on the top of that bus watching the couples kissing passionately; it was so moving,” she said. “That is what life is about. That is the point. You see New York City going by, there was an incredible rush to it all.”This new senior position will be directed at creatively enhancing the visuals of The New York Times Magazine’s digital features, through photography, video and other multimedia.