About

I’m a creative leader with cross-platform experience at news, finance, food, lifestyle, celebrity and children’s brands. I specialize in conceptualizing images and providing art direction to ensure impactful visual storytelling that has consistently led to audience engagement and growth. I have a diverse network of emerging and established artists and archives. I currently serve as Director of Photography for Barron’s and Penta.

When not on set or at the computer, I love getting lost in the woods, and I even turned it into a photo book project about gold prospecting, The New Forty-Niners. E-mail me: sarina.finkelstein (at) gmail.com and let’s do coffee.

Selected Honors

Society of Publication Designers (SPD) 59 Merit Winner (x2), 2024
American Photography 40 Chosen Winner, 2024
Society of Publication Designers (SPD) 58 Merit Winner (x2), 2023
American Photography 39 Selected Winner (x4), 2023
Society of Publication Designers (SPD) 57 Merit Winner (x2), 2022
American Photography 38 Selected Winner (x3), 2022
American Photography 38 Chosen Winner, 2022
Society for News Design 43rd Creative Competition, Award of Excellence for Best of Print Design, Cover 2022
Communication Arts 2022 Photography Competition Shortlist, 2022
Society of Publication Designers (SPD) 56 Merit Winner, 2021
Communication Arts Illustration Annual 62, 2021
Communication Arts 2021 Photography Competition Shortlist (x7), 2021
American Photography 37 Chosen Winner (x4), 2021
Communication Arts Illustration Shortlist (x2), 2018
Photo District News Photo Annual, Books Winner, 2014

Selected Clients

Money, TIME.com, Parents.com, Shape.com, Barron’s, Penta, Time Out NY, Time Out NY Kids, Cigar Aficionado, Food Arts, powerHouse Books, Oxford University Press, Columbia University Miller Theatre.

Photographers including…

Spencer Lowell, Jesse Rieser, Mary Beth Koeth, Benedict Evans, Jamie Chung, Yasu Mizoi, Andrew B. Myers, Sarah Anne Ward, Jim Wright, Kevin Scanlon, Austin Hargrave, Victoria Will, Tony Luong, Celeste Sloman, Mackenzie Stroh, Mark Liddell, Michael Lewis, Philip Cheung, Melissa Golden, Christie Hemm Klok, Jeff Harris, Roy Ritchie, Kelsey McClellan, Kyle Johnson, Scott Suchman, Jeremy Lange, Joe Schmelzer, Peden + Munk, Magdalena Wosinska, Marley Rizzuti.

Affiliations

Society for Publication Designers, Photography Portfolio Reviewer
Society for Publication Designers, Member
International Center for Photography, Portfolio Reviewer
Art Directors Club, Portfolio Reviewer
American Photographic Artists, Panelist
College Media Association, Speaker
Professional Women Photographers, Speaker
Houghton College, Guest Lecturer
Photo Alliance, Lecturer

Info

Sarina Finkelstein
347.277.4726
sarina.finkelstein (at) gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/sarinafinkelstein