Profile

​Photographer Pamela Hassell works independently, and as a Picture Editor and contributing photographer at The Associated Press. She has published her editorial photographs worldwide, along with writing several travel and lifestyle articles. Formerly, she worked as a Director of Photography for Connoisseur and Buzz magazines, and also a Managing Editor of Entertainment at Corbis, where she oversaw U.S. Entertainment and West Coast News. As a Director of Photography, Hassell was honored with numerous awards from Communication Arts and Creativity. She has produced a short film and several multimedia projects.

Hassell studied at the School of Visual Arts, in New York, first in Fashion Illustration and Fine Art, and then completed her education in Art History, earning a Bachelors Degree at Stony Brook University, graduating summa cum laude with honors, and a Masters Degree at Goddard College. She is a self-taught photographer, whose passion is working in mixed-media, including drawing and painting. 

In 2025, Hassell is a participating artist in the XV Florence Biennale, Oct. 18-26, in Florence, Italy. Her work is also in “The Sublime Obsession,” at Spazio, SV – San Vidal Exhibition Center, in Venice, Italy. In 2023, and 2021, she was part of the Los Angeles Center of Photography members’ group exhibits at the LA Art Show. In 2020, her work was included in the LACP Members Fundraising Exhibition. In 2015, Hassell’s photography was shown in Art in Miami (SCOPE). In 2014, she was part of a group exhibition, “Oneira: I Dream the Self,” at Studio C Gallery in Los Angeles, and a group exhibit, Exposure, in New York. In 2013, her drawings were exhibited at the Art Music Film More Festival in California, and the Paris Street Gallery, in Massachusetts. Earlier, she created a public art installation at Stony Brook University, in New York, and her painting was shown in the American Painters in Paris exhibit at the Palais des Congres. Her photography is included in private collections.