ABOUT ATTA
Premier art and photography source
Bespoke Wall décor for hospitality, commercial and residential interiors.
A sister to both the AUGUST and OTTO agencies, ATTA exclusively represents the archives of an elite group of master contemporary portrait, landscape, lifestyle, beauty, fashion,interior and architectural photographers.
Our team of art and photography experts have a global network of creative talent that reaches far beyond our two sister agencies. Decades of combined experience and knowledge enable ATTA to provide extraordinary solutions for your wall décor needs. Access to expansive and never before seen archives make ATTA the premier art and photography source for the art consulting, interior design and hospitality industries.
Bill HANNIGAN
Bill is the co-founder of AUGUST and OTTO. Prior to launching his own agencies, he was the SVP of Content Development for MediaVast which was acquired by Getty, and the former head of Corbis Outline and VP-Editorial Director for Corbis. During his time at Corbis he was central to the agencies expansion supporting new offices and partnerships throughout Asia and Europe.
Bill has extensive experience in the photo industry, with expertise specific to licensing and copyright, and a deep knowledge of photography collections both private and public.
Bill has a BFA in photography, exhibits his own photographs and has written several books and many articles on photography. He was also the publisher of Pond Press for nearly a decade, an independent publisher of photography monographs. Since leaving art school he has spent his life in photography balancing the creative and commercial.
Joan Cargill
Joan is celebrating 15 years curating and producing luxury and celebrity images. She was the Director of the Archival & Licensing Division for Management+Artists, a luxury and fashion creative agency, for over 12 years and developed the licensing business from its infancy. Elite photographers known world-wide collaborated and trusted Joan with their vision as she navigated on their behalf to feature their photography in magazines such as Vogue, Marie Claire, InStyle Magazine and many more.
Her talent for design and curation began in the form of magazine editing, which grew into book collections is a perfect fit with ATTA. This finally marries her love for the image with the allure of spaces. No ask is too small. Hotels, restaurants, cruise ships, corporate spaces, residential interiors, galleries...a favorite room in your home.
Joan infuses every project with infectious energy and a keen eye, supporting her clients from start to finish. It is Joan’s passion to help you transform your environment and spaces through the beauty and power of the image.
Jessica Ruzicka
Jessica celebrated her 10-year anniversary with ATTA sister agency AUGUST in 2018. She heads up our London offices as Director & Senior Agent now, with a focus on the UK, German, & French markets. She is a fluent French speaker and citizen.
She discovered her love of photography while traveling around Europe in her first year at university. Her camera ever-present along the way, she returned six weeks later with a dozen rolls of film, a huge yearning to move around the globe, and a desire to know how the business of photography worked. One day after graduating from George Mason University, she packed up a single large suitcase and moved from Virginia to New York with $500 in hand, where she would live out the next 11 years, working in both advertising and later as a photo agent where she found her calling.
Jess still travels around Europe on the weekends with a camera in hand, still the steady companion, and a great reminder of where it all began.
MARYN RICH
Maryn is the head of Production and Artist Relations for AUGUST. Maryn has 7+ years of experience working in content licensing with top-tier photographers and brands. Prior to her time at AUGUST, she was Content Sales Curator at Condé Nast where she researched and curated content across all brands, oversaw commercial art partnerships and managed original cartoon art sales for The New Yorker. Maryn holds a MS in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute.
Sue Park
Sue is from San Diego where she left the year-round perfect weather and headed to NY to study fine art photography at Pratt Institute. After graduating she began her career at Gallery Stock & Trunk Archive as a photo editor. Over the years, her interests have grown far beyond her foundation in photography into marketing and design. She continues to dive further into the creative industry and crossroads of photography and design because she believes context is just as important as content. She brings her passion to always think about creative processes to deliver strong visuals to all the marketing at ATTA and to support our curation. She spends most of her time outside of work with good music and good food- proper fuel for any creative soul.