Maggie Steber:
Lessons in the Field
Award-winning photographer and editor Maggie Steber is well-known for her passion for teaching, and so we were thrilled when she welcomed us into her classroom at the 2018 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Kolkata, India. Maggie provides insight into her style of teaching, the ways we can learn to find our own visual voice, and tips for editing and storytelling. “I really like to create an...
Outreach Spotlight:
Photoville NYC
For its seventh edition, Photoville will present work by more than 600 artists in 90 photography exhibitions & outdoor installations, providing an accessible venue for the public to experience both challenging and entertaining visual stories from a diverse group of artists, curators and organizations. In addition to exhibitions in and around the freight containers, Photoville offers panel...
PhotoWings Flash Grants
We’re thrilled to announce our latest grant opportunity, a series of PhotoWings Flash Grants. Propose a photography-based project for an opportunity to receive a grant from PhotoWings. Flash Grants will be in two funding streams with more than one award in each category possible depending on the quality/quantity of submissions.
Outreach Spotlight: CatchLight + Everyday Projects
Everyday Bay Area, a project of CatchLight, focuses on the power of visual storytelling to help SF Bay Area residents see and understand each other across identities, ages, demographics and geography. PhotoWings partnered with CatchLight to interview some of their fascinating participants – to learn about them and their thinking. In this compilation video we explore their early influences and what...
Andrea Bruce:
Our Democracy
With the “Our Democracy” project Andrea Bruce brings news literacy, community engagement and visual exploration into communities around the United States. Crisscrossing the country, Andrea connects with members of the community and uses visual and audio storytelling to explore their experiences and thoughts on contemporary democracy....
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop
Every year, the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop offers a chance to learn from some of the world’s most well respected photojournalists. In 2008, Foundry kicked off in Mexico City and has since been held in a different continent every year. 2018’s Foundry will be held in Kolkata, India. Foundry was established to bring a high-caliber workshop to people who otherwise could not attend such events....
Nancy Borowick:
The Family Imprint
Photographer Nancy Borowick tells us the moving story of documenting her parents’ struggle with cancer, and how the power of photography was able to help her be strong and resilient during their illnesses. Nancy Borowick is a humanitarian photographer currently based on the island of Guam. She is a graduate of the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program at the International Center of...
Stacy Pearsall – On The Veterans Portrait Project
After 2-time Military Photographer of the Year award winner and Bronze Star recipient Stacy Pearsall was injured in combat, she came home to receive care in V.A. hospitals. It was in these spaces that she started to document the incredible stories of the other veterans, beginning a new chapter of her life as well as “The Veterans Portrait Project,” a project that is not only powerful and...
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Victor Blue: Pictures and Words
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Maggie Steber: In Conversation with Claire Rosen and The Secret Garden – Foundry 2015
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Sharing the power of photography around the world
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Andrea Bruce – Lessons in the Field
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"The second exhibition, All That Man Is: Fashion and Masculinity Now, is curated by Vogue Italia picture editor Chiara Bardelli Nonino, who selected 54 photographs exploring different shades of what it means to be a man. The theme coincides with the relaunch of L’Uomo Vogue as a biannual publication, after a short break that marked its end as a monthly title. “Manhood is a very fragile and precarious status. It’s something men are afraid to lose, and it’s something they feel they have to earn,” says Nonino." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Storytelling
Photo Vogue Festival: embracing diversity and the many shades of masculinity
bjp-online.com
Diversity has never been hotter in the fashion industry. This year, more non-white, plus-sized, and transgender models have walked the runway than ever before, and a record number of black women have appeared on the covers of glossies worldwide. Alessia Glaviano, senior picture editor at Vogue Itali"Each portrait has a personal reflection about identity, proof that non-binary is about more than external markers: it is also about internal feelings. These first-person accounts exist beyond the frame, with and against the portraits they illuminate and complicate." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Storytelling #Photography
Beyond the Narrow Expectations of Gender
nytimes.com
The people in these portraits by Linda Bournane Engelberth move along, and beyond, gender identifications."From the nineteen-seventies until her death last August, at the age of sixty-six, the photographer Arlene Gottfried combed New York City’s streets, parks, beaches, subways, and night clubs, in search of the shock of recognition one sometimes finds in perfect strangers. She understood the fractions of confidence and insecurity that make a public face. She liked sharp cheekbones and weird, pillowy proportions; she liked kids who comported themselves like adults, with laden, sphinx-like features. When Gottfried died, she left behind fifteen thousand pictures" #Archive #History #Legacy #Photography #Storytelling
Arlene Gottfried’s New York, Through the Eyes of Her Brother Gilbert Gottfried
newyorker.com
The work of the late photographer summons a family that’s fading into the past and, with it, a city that’s been priced out of its own identity."Magnum photographer Matt Black reflects on his ongoing project that challenges the mainstream representation of America's poor" #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking
Poverty and Mythologies in America • Matt Black • Magnum Photos
magnumphotos.com
Magnum photographer Matt Black reflects on his ongoing project, Geography of Poverty“The idea was that they would be arresting images because of the iconography and aesthetic qualities of the gang, but once you’ve been drawn in by that, you’d be forced to contend with the weight of human experience and whether the experiences of those men can be read into the topography of their faces." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
New Zealand's Mongrel Mob gang, photographed by Jono Rotman
bjp-online.com
Arresting. Exquisite. Gripping. Chilling. Disgraceful. Unacceptable. These are all words people have used to describe portraits made by Jono Rotman. Created over the last decade, his project Mongrelism presents an intimate look at members of the Mongrel Mob – New Zealand’s largest, most notoriou...