Sam Bloom is an award-winning creative director, photographer, and producer based in New York. She’s the co-founder of Souvenir Shop, a creative studio for live events and artistic programming, in film, fashion, and the arts.
Previously, she was the founding Chief Creative Officer at Anyone, an app that encourages people to ask for help and forge connections through conversations. She was also the Editor-in-Chief of ANYONES, its magazine of very good advice from very interesting people.
Sam was a founding partner at Unbranded Pictures, launched in 2018 to develop, produce, and finance original and inspired feature films and episodic television. Unbranded’s first feature film, The Report, was a Golden Globe-nominated political thriller based on the investigation of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program created in the aftermath of 9/11. The Report premiered at the Sundance, Telluride, and Toronto International Film Festivals, and is available on Amazon Prime.
Sam’s overall work focuses on people and shared human experiences, and her photography has been published in numerous outlets including The New York Times, W, Document Journal, Vice News, Teen Vogue, Veckans Affarer, Pitchfork, Slate, AdWeek, and Time Out, and has been featured by the ACLU, them. and MoMA PS1. She’s produced multimedia projects in conjunction with Google/Jigsaw, the Human Rights Foundation, the United Nations, and VICE News. Sam’s commercial clients have included Matte Projects, Oscar De La Renta, Spotify, Sony Music, Sixty Hotels, and others. Her work has been shown in the Museo El Castillo in Medellin, Colombia.