IV - Leonor Mamanna

Join hosts Alex Thebez and Elizabeth Renstrom as they navigate the joys and challenges of a creative life in their new podcast "It's Been So Long." Listen in as they catch up and invite other creatives into honest dialogues about artistic pursuits, professional challenges, and the ever-evolving journey of making a living through creative work. Each episode features candid conversations that explore what it truly means to grow, build and sustain a creative life.In this episode, recorded in September 2025 we are joined by visuals director, producer and creative consultant Leonor Mamanna.Leonor is Deputy Visuals Director at Bloomberg, splitting her time across Pursuits, Weekend, City Lab, and as Deputy at Businessweek — the latest chapter in a career that's taken her through New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Men's Vogue, Money, More, and a run as photo director at the all-female Mary Review, earning her honors from SPD, American Photography, PDN, ASME, the Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, and POYi along the way, plus jury seats for PDN's Photo Annual, Photoville, Daylight Photo, the Overseas Press Club, NPPA, Latin American Fotografía, and ASME. Outside the magazine world, she's mentored through Chicas Poderosas' New Ventures Lab on Malquerida, an all-women Spanish-language project; she's the eye behind @alittlelifebook and runs the social presence for Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life; she's shot original photography for novelists Ben Dolnick and Pulitzer winner Andrew Sean Greer, dug into photo archives with authors Maaza Mengiste and Will Schwalbe, and dreamed up the campaign for the indie film Mayday. Since 2016 she's also written Leave It to Leonor, a weekly newsletter of cultural recommendations and personal essays that from 2017 to 2021 included an interview series with women like Roxane Gay, Tracy Clayton, Ashley C. Ford, Doree Shafrir, and Brittany Luse. She's a lifelong New Yorker, Upper West Side born and raised, now living in Brooklyn with her family — and she reads constantly.Audio by Jacob StoneCover art by David PreliTheme music by Robert Karpay Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.