Corina Marie Howell POWER WOMEN OF TELEVISION

Corina Marie Howell didn’t watch many television shows or movies as a child, but that hasn’t slowed down her career in the celebrity and entertainment scene—both as a photo editor and, more recently, photographer.

Howell, who grew up in the San Francisco area, moved to Los Angeles after graduating from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in art and film studies. She went on to work as an intern and photo editor in the entertainment magazine industry, contributing to publications such as Movieline’s Hollywood Life Magazine and The Hollywood Reporter (THR). After nearly seven years of photo editing, Howell transitioned to freelance photography, landing her first few gigs with beauty brands like Bare Escentuals and NYX cosmetics.

It was connections through her old colleagues, including THR’s design director Ada Guerin—who later became creative director for TheWrap—that aided her transition to celebrity portraiture. “When I saw Ada had moved over to TheWrap, I emailed her and asked her to lunch,” Howell says. That meeting led to many booked assignments, including shooting celebrity magazine covers, covering multiple film festivals and capturing a recent seven-actress shoot for TheWrap’s first Emmy issue, which was done

with an all-female crew in two days and, says Howell, held to the theme of “women supporting women.”

Having worked in the industry in multiple capacities, Howell knows that the key to her current and future success will be collaboration and a push toward motion. Through partnerships with stylists, designers and other creatives—sometimes even the celebrities themselves—she says, “I’ve begun to push the envelope for what’s possible narrative-wise on these often restrictive celebrity sets.”

—Stacey Goldberg

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