Legendary photographer and New York Film Academy (NYFA) faculty member Nancy Burson’s thought-provoking image is the current cover of Time magazine.
Renowned for her pioneering work in morphing technologies, Burson’s current Time magazine cover is an arresting portrait that combines the faces of two of the world’s most powerful leaders: U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. To create the composite, Burson partnered with NYFA alum and digital editor John Depew. In the image, the men’s faces are digitally combined to create a single arresting portrait, providing a startling visual representation of a significant moment in world affairs following the recent meeting of the two leaders in Helsinki.
The story behind TIME's Trump and Putin 'Summit Crisis' cover https://t.co/RjtA0amw04 pic.twitter.com/ZwS8XN9Wyf
— TIME (@TIME) July 19, 2018
“We at the New York Film Academy’s Photography School could not be more honored to see our colleague’s work featured on the cover of Time magazine,” says NYFA Photography Chair David Mager. “Nancy is an exceptional artist whose profound work, and its cultural impact, speaks for itself — as it has for decades. This image speaks to a critical moment in world affairs and demonstrates the power of visual arts in society to provoke thought, open dialogue, and express the times. We are truly proud to count her among our faculty and offer our students opportunities to learn from a master of her craft.”
In addition to her riveting Time cover, Burson’s work was recently also singled out by Time magazine in its list of 100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time.
Burson is a legend in her field, perhaps best known for her cutting-edge morphing technologies. Burson’s work has been featured on Oprah, Good Morning America, CNN, National Public Radio, PBS, and Fuji TV News, as well as countless local TV segments in the USA, Canada, and Europe; and discussed in The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Houston Chronicle, and Scientific American Magazine, to name a few. There are four monographs of her work and reproductions of it appear in hundreds of art catalogs and textbooks on the history of photography, published in all languages. Burson’s fine art photography is available through ClampArt Gallery in NYC. Her website can be viewed here.
The New York Film Academy congratulates Nancy Burson and John Depew for their remarkable work on the cover of Time magazine.
You can read a full Q&A with Nancy on our blog.