Outreach Spotlight: 2019 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit
The 2019 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit, an immersive day of conversation, inspiration and community featured leading voices in visual storytelling. The event began with portfolio reviews, where photographers shared their work with photo editors from media and tech organizations, museum curators and gallery owners.
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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...
Visual Storytelling – Foundry Photojournalism Workshop
At the 2015 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, eight renowned instructors spoke with PhotoWings about the art and importance of visual storytelling. With a wealth of experience between them, these eight photographers discussed what it means to them, how they do it, and what they are able to accomplish with it. As we feature a small sliver of this work throughout the video, we encourage you to explore the...
Victor Blue: Pictures and Words
Photojournalist Victor J Blue loves to read. “I find it sustains me,” he says of the narrative nonfiction published by magazines like The New Yorker and Harper’s, “I think I probably went to them initially for the photography, and then stayed for the writing. I still read them every week, because the narrative nonfiction writers that are producing work for those magazines are such a strong influence on my...
PhotoWings + AshokaU Webinar — Self-Discovery and Changemaking Through Photography
PhotoWings has partnered with AshokaU to produce a free webinar, Advancing Changemaking Skills Through Photography: Self-Discovery Through Photography. With this webinar, participants gain valuable skills to use in work and in life, including: communication techniques, gaining trust and access, visual literacy, critical thinking, applied empathy, resilience, ethical considerations, preservation, and other...
Alyssa Adams on The Eddie Adams Archive
Photo editor Alyssa Adams co-founded the now legendary Eddie Adams Workshop with her late husband, award-winning photojournalist Eddie Adams, in 1988. Since his passing, Alyssa has become the archivist of Eddie’s body of work and related ephemera. In this video, she gives us a look behind the scenes into the painstaking, crucial work that goes into organizing Eddie’s photographic archive so future...
Adrienne Aurichio on Bill Eppridge & The Beatles
Photography editor and archivist Adrienne Aurichio, wife of legendary Life Magazine photojournalist Bill Eppridge, sat down with us at the Eddie Adams Workshop to discuss the work of her late husband and managing his archive. In this video, Adrienne tells the story of Bill creating some of the first photos of the Beatles in the U.S., losing and finding the original negatives, and how those photos took on...
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...
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Oscar B. Castillo is an award-winning photojournalist from Caracas, Venezuela who has worked around the world documenting a wide range of events and people, from the recent earthquake in Haiti, to struggles for independence in Indian controlled Kashmir. PhotoWings connected with Oscar during the 2014 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop where he was once a pupil and now is an instructor. He told us about the difficulties and rewards of bringing his photojournalism practice to his home of Caracas, where gang violence and corrupt politics plague the city and its people. Of this work Oscar says: "there's an ugly side [to Caracas], but let's try to make it better - let's try to improve it, let's try to make it more beautiful, let's try [so] that the people, the histories, don't fall away and fade." #Photography #Photojournalism #CriticalThinking #Storytelling
Oscar B. Castillo: Documenting Life in Caracas, Venezuela
Oscar B. Castillo is an award-winning photojournalist from Caracas, Venezuela who has worked around the world documenting a wide range of events and people, from…"Curator Josephine de Fijter believes art is a gateway to learn more about the world, or oneself. Last October, she made that entryway physical with her exhibition “The Photo Room.” Tucked under the train tracks near Amsterdam’s central station, the show saw viewers leave the city streets and become immersed in an entirely dark space, illuminated only by images flickering across the walls, and surrounded by ambient electronic melodies composed by Berlin-based DJ and producer Atelier Francesco." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Storytelling
This New Platform Gives Photographers an Immersive Way to Exhibit Their Work
Uncoated, founded and curated by Josephine de Fijter, has an emphasis on experiential exhibitions and multisensory experiences.PhotoWings spent the day with award-winning photojournalist Andrea Bruce while in Bali for the 2015 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop. Andrea, an instructor at Foundry, has worked with many prestigious organizations, such as National Geographic and the Washington Post, and is a co-owner of the photo agency NOOR. Andrea shares valuable insights about creating compelling narratives, critical thinking, earning trust, perspective, and the importance of fixers to the work of photojournalists. We followed Andrea and her local fixer Wayan Tilik as she got acquainted with the island of Bali and researched potential stories for her students. #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
Andrea Bruce – Lessons in the Field
PhotoWings spent the day with award-winning photojournalist and Harvard Nieman Fellow Andrea Bruce while in Bali for the 2015 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop. Andrea, an instructor at Foundry, has worked with many prestigious organizations, such as National Geographic and the Washington Post, and i..."Neil Armstrong’s photograph of Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface remains one of the most recognizable and enduring images in history, in part because so few people have been to the place where that picture was taken. The privilege of taking steps on our closest heavenly neighbor belongs (so far) to a tiny, exclusive cohort of a dozen individuals.
The two astronauts spent just over 20 hours on the moon, after three days of space travel and years of preparation, planning and practice. And then they came back, having forever expanded the way humankind sees itself. Five decades later the moon landing, as achievement and notion, remains mind-boggling.
Luckily for the rest of us, the astronauts packed cameras, so that NASA could properly document its greatest triumph. Think of it as the most epic vacation slide show ever made." #Photography #Archive #History #Legacy #Storytelling
Reliving the Apollo 11 Moon Landing in Pictures
It may be a familiar yarn, but humankind's lunar journey in 1969 continues to be a spellbinder.Prior to teaching at the 2014 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Antigua, Guatemala, award-winning reportage photographer James Whitlow Delano / Photography spent a day researching and documenting the lives and experiences of nearby village Santa Maria de Jesus. His attention focuses on the complex issues of immigration, labor, and the lives of children. While on location, James shared some valuable insights: the philosophical and technical approaches he takes to photojournalism and bearing witness. #Photography #Photojournalism #CriticalThinking #Storytelling
James Whitlow Delano: Lessons in the Field - PhotoWings
Prior to teaching at the 2014 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Antigua, Guatemala, award-winning reportage photographer James Whitlow Delano spent a day researching and documenting the lives and experiences of nearby village Santa Maria de Jesus. His attention focuses on the complex issues of i...