Karen Mullarkey

Karen Mullarkey began her career in photography at Life magazine in the mid-1960s. She has been Photography Director at various publications, including Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated. In the mid-1990s, Karen produced and directed a series of HDTV documentaries for Japanese television. During the last 30 years she has been involved in editing and producing over 70 photographic books. In 1995, she began working on Internet projects beginning with groundbreaking project 24 Hours in Cyberspace as the director of assignments and photography. Since then, she has been Vice President of Creative at Zing.com, an online consumer photography site and the Editorial Director of FilmLoop.com. Mullarkey has served as a photographic consultant for the designer Roger Black; the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Ft. Worth, Texas; the National Constitutional Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Stanford University, where she ahs been working as curator for special photographic collection documenting the birth of Silicon Valley. Mullarkey was the Assignment Director for the America 24/7 National book project (a New York Times bestseller) and later became the director of photography for the 50 state books.