Editorial Photo Editor

📣 Looking for a freelance Editorial Photo Editor for Explorer at GetYourGuide 📣

Words get people curious. Images seal the deal. We want someone who understands that difference and can use it.

You'll define and maintain a distinctive imagery style across Explorer, whether the image came from a professional shoot, a stock library, or a GetYourGuide editor with a smartphone. We can't shoot original photography for everything we publish, so you'll need to be just as skilled at curating and elevating existing imagery as briefing new shoots.

You'll work closely with our copy editors on visual storytelling: choosing the image that captures a story at a glance and using photography throughout a piece to pull readers deeper in and give them a sense of place.

You'll also:

• 📝 Write and manage photography briefs, matching the editorial intent and wider Explorer style.
• 🎓 Train and support editors to source imagery, with clear guidelines on style, licensing and quality.
• 🖼️ Set standards for stock or supplied imagery so everything feels cohesive rather than generic.
• 📐 Own and evolve Explorer's visual guidelines, covering color treatment, composition, cropping and moments to capture or avoid.
• ✨ Retouch imagery to keep it within our guidelines.
• 🤝 Partner with design and brand teams so Explorer's visual identity complements GetYourGuide while feeling distinct.

What we're looking for:

• 📰 Experience as a photo editor or visual editor, ideally at a magazine, travel publication or editorial content team.
• 📸 A strong eye for travel photography and a sharp sense of editorial hooks.
• 🔍 Strong editing and research instincts, digging for the right reference, image or source.
• 💡 Creative problem-solving when the right image doesn't exist or the budget doesn't stretch to a shoot.
• 🗂️ Hands-on experience sourcing and licensing stock imagery, and making it look less like stock.
• 🎬 Experience writing photography briefs and working directly with photographers or contributors.
• ✍️ Comfort collaborating with writers and editors, translating a story's tone and angle into visual direction.
• 📋 Strong organizational skills for managing imagery across a high volume of content, style guides, asset libraries and workflows.
• 🌍 Availability during EU working hours to collaborate in real time with the Berlin-based team.

⭐ Senior · EU-based · up to 20 hours/week 📅 Starting asap · 3-6 months to start 🛠️ Tools: Scaleflex, Adobe Creative Suite, Figma

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