Eyes on Photo Producer Sarah Brookshaw

Every movie poster and billboard you walk past was produced by someone. Not the photographer, the photo producer. Sarah Brookshaw is the person who makes that single image come together, and she says if she does her job right, you never notice her at all.

Sarah produces the photo side of the big 360 campaigns behind the shows and films on Disney, Hulu, and beyond: key art, posters, bus-stop ads, and editorials. She breaks down what a photo producer actually does, the difference between editorial, advertising, and key art, why unit photographers on set are basically ninjas, and how some photographers prep a single shot down to the lens.

She goes into her unlikely career story: from wanting to be a lawyer at age eight, through a year of law school she hated, video game publishing, automotive PR, and wedding photography, to photo production almost by accident. Plus a genuinely balanced take on where AI fits in photography, and the line she will not cross. You cannot AI human connection away.