Lucy Conticello

Lucy Conticello is the director of Photography of M, Le Monde's weekend magazine. Lucy studied archeology and art history at La Sapienza University in Rome.
After two formative years working as an assistant photo editor for the Italian newsweekly Liberal, Lucy moved to study photography practise and history at the Maine Photographic workshops in Rockport, United States. She later went to New York to pursue a career as photo editor, writer and lecturer. Lucy has worked  for Business Week, The New York Times, l'Espresso, The New York  Times magazine, Courrier International, The International Herald Tribune as well as photography  agencies such as Sipa Press, Magnum Photos and the AFP.

She has been assigning photographers for several years and what she loves most is the creative process of pairing photographers with stories, brainstorming ideas and seeing how these pictures end up defining how the viewers access the articles .

Lucy regularly takes part in international photography juries, most recently at the World Press Photo as Portraits jury chair, the Foam Paul Huf award, the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward, the Prix Levallois , the Prix Virginia and the Festival della Fotografia Etica in Lodi. She has taken part in portfolio reviews (Photo Meet London, Fotografia Europea, Festival Cortona on the Move, PhotoEspana.) ; has guest curated an issue in Ojodepez magazine and conducted photography workshops at Fotofilmic Creative Immersion workshop in Bowen, the ISFCI Istituto Superiore di Fotografia e Comunicazione Integrata in Rome, the Internazionale Festival in Ferrara and the Canon Student Development Programme in Perpignan. Lucy Conticello has also been on the Advisory Committee for Unseen Amsterdam.