Leonor Mamanna
Photo Editor, Producer, Creative

about

Leonor is the Senior Photo Editor for Pursuits at Bloomberg Businessweek.

She has also worked at New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler,

GQ, Men's Vogue, Money Magazine, and More. She was the photo director of the all-female magazine, Mary Review.

She has served on juries for PDN Photo Annual, Photoville, Latin American Fotografía and the Ellies.

She has commissioned and produced images for the @alittlelifebook Instagram and manages social media for the author Hanya Yanagihara. She has also worked on original photography projects for novelists Ben Dolnick and Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer.

Leonor has a weekly newsletter with recommendations on what to read, watch, listen to, places to go, things to see, and internet happenings, all framed by a weekly personal essay.

Leave it to Leonor includes an interview series where various dynamic women of note are each asked the same questions. Previous interviewees have included: Roxane Gay, Tracy Clayton, Ashley Ford, Eleanor Kagan, Lolita Cros, Brittany Luse, Yuko Shimizu, Stacia Brown and Dodai Stewart. The women in the series all hail from different vocational disciplines and have included illustrators, artists, writers, producers and podcasts.

Through the non-profit Chicas Poderosas' New Ventures Lab, she was a mentor for Malquerida, a Spanish-language digital project written, edited, produced and illustrated entirely by women.

Leonor is a born and bred New Yorker from the Upper West Side who lives in Brooklyn with her daughter.

Photograph by Naomi Shon

Photograph by Naomi Shon

 

Leonor is the Deputy Photo Director at Bloomberg Businessweek. In addition to the magazine, she is the Photo Editor for the Pursuits and Weekend brands.  

Previously, she has worked at New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler,  GQ, Men's Vogue, Money Magazine, and More. She was the photo director of the all-female magazine, Mary Review.

Her work in these magazines has won her awards from The Society of Publication Designers, American Photography, Photo District News, American Society of Magazine Editors, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, POYi, and more.
 
She has served on juries for PDN Photo Annual, Photoville, Daylight Photo, Overseas Press Club, National Press Photographers Association, Latin American Fotografía, and ASME.

Through the non-profit Chicas Poderosas' New Ventures Lab, she was a mentor for Malquerida, a Spanish-language digital project written, edited, produced and illustrated entirely by women.

She commissioned and produced images for @alittlelifebook and manages all the A Little Life social media for author Hanya Yanagihara. She has worked on original photography projects for novelists Ben Dolnick, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and photo archival projects with author, Maaza Mengiste and Will Schwalbe. She conceptualized and executed a campaign for the independent film, Mayday.

Leonor has a weekly newsletter with recommendations on what to read, watch, listen to, places to go, things to see, and internet happenings, all framed by a personal essay. 

From 2017-2021, Leave it to Leonor included an interview series where various dynamic women of note are each asked the same questions. Interviewees included: Roxane Gay, Tracy Clayton, Ashley C. Ford, Doree Shafrir, Eleanor Kagan, Lolita Cros, Brittany Luse, Yuko Shimizu, Stacia Brown, and Dodai Stewart among many others. The women in the series all hail from different vocational disciplines and have included illustrators, artists, writers, producers and podcasters.  

Leonor is a born and raised New Yorker from the Upper West Side who lives in Brooklyn with her daughter.