John Moore:
When a Photo Goes Viral
In this video, John Moore tells us the story of his World Press Photo Award winning photograph of Honduran toddler Yanela Sanchez crying, as her mother, Sandra Sanchez, is detained by a U.S. border patrol agent. The photograph became a lightning rod in debates about U.S. immigration policy, and John reflects on the afterlives of the photograph on social media and the new ways images are disseminated and...
Outreach Spotlight:
Eddie Adams Workshop
The Eddie Adams Workshop is an intense four-day gathering of the top photography professionals, along with 100 carefully selected students. The photography workshop is tuition-free, and the students are chosen based on the merit of their portfolios. PhotoWings is a proud supporter of Eddie Adams Workshop, and has created a series of twenty reflective interviews with the renowned faculty and...
Michelle Agins Interview – EAW 2018
Earlier this year, Michelle Agins, a staff photographer for the New York Times since ’89, took home the NPPA’s highest honor: the Sprague Award. We got to know Michelle at the Eddie Adams Workshop last year and had the honor of recording an insightful interview on topics such as Access and Gender Discrimination.
Outreach Spotlight:
Photoville NYC
For its eighth 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 discussions,...
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. Application deadline January 15, 2020.
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...
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.
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...
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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...
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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...
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Foundry Photojournalism Workshop
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Ron Haviv – The Lost Rolls
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Sarah Blesener – PhotoWings Interview
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Peter DiCampo – The Everyday Projects
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Daniel Beltrá – Changing Perspectives
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Edward Echwalu – A Photographer’s Motivation
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John Stanmeyer – Story Behind the Photograph
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Watch: PhotoWings + Ashoka U InSights Grantees
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Mark Strandquist – Performing Statistics / Windows from Prison
Following on the success of the PhotoWings/Ashoka U Insights Grant...
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Watch: Mike Davis – The Music of Photographs
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Watch: PhotoWings & AshokaU InSights Grant Winner: Dublin City University
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Creative Collaboration – Blue Earth Alliance
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Louie Schwartzberg – Learning Through Gratitude
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Maggie Steber: In Conversation with Claire Rosen and The Secret Garden – Foundry 2015
Acclaimed photographer and journalist Maggie Steber shares a poignant Q&A...
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Sharing the power of photography around the world
PhotoWings sat down with several of the esteemed instructors at the 2014...
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Andrea Bruce – Lessons in the Field
PhotoWings spent the day with award-winning photojournalist and Harvard Nieman...
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Watch: Maggie Steber – The Value of Family Photo Albums
Maggie Steber has had a long career in photography as a National Geographic...
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The Healing Power of Photos
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Reasons To Care About Family Albums
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Watch: Oscar B. Castillo: Documenting Life in Caracas, Venezuela
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Behind the Image: Alec Soth's Two Towels • Magnum Photos
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Alec Soth reveals the story and the process behind one of his most famous images"Richard Misrach had been photographing the monolithic clouds and pink-hued strata of American deserts for over a decade when he came across a game of oversized croquet in 1987. Though the scenes of a group of artists whacking 6-foot-tall balls through 15-foot-tall wickets with their pickup trucks may have seemed mirage-like, the photographer was not hallucinating. Nor had he taken a wrong turn and landed in Alice’s wonderland." #Archive #History #Photography #Storytelling
See Rare Photos of Burning Man’s Early Experimental Years
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The photographer sought to capture a transient event that brought people together in the desert."The photographer captured life on the Bowery, when manufacturing was still done in Manhattan industrial lofts: ‘the street was free, it was a different world.’" #Archive #History #Legacy #Photography #Storytelling
Ed Grazda’s portraits of pre-gentrification New York
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For more than a century, the Bowery has been New York’s skid row; a place synonymous with flophouses, bars, and the struggle. All that has changed in recent years is it, like much of New York, has been rapidly gentrified. In 1971, American photographer Ed Grazda arrived in New York and settled int..."Shot across multiple locations, Magers’ latest book is made up of poetic enigmas: images that linger beyond their first viewing, inviting us to look again." #Photography #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Storytelling
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Shot across multiple locations, Magers’ latest book is made up of poetic enigmas: images that linger beyond their first viewing, inviting us to look again"Karan Kumar Sachdev was one of last year’s Portrait of Humanity winners, with her photograph of Madgo and Lokkhmi, two members of India’s resilient Dongria Kondh tribe" #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
Portrait of Humanity: Protectors of the land
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“Madgo and Lokkhmi belong to the Dongria Kondh tribe,” explains Karan Kumar Sachdev of the subjects of her winning Portrait of Humanity 2019 image. “I stayed with them in their village in the Niyamgiri hills for a few days.” The tribe are a marginalised community in the south west of Odisha,...