Windows From Prison – PhotoWings + Ashoka U InSights Grantee: George Mason University
Windows From Prison utilizes photography as a way to connect incarcerated men and women to their alienated pasts and to create space and humanistic entry points for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members to discuss the sources, impacts, and alternatives to mass incarceration. “If you could have window in your cell, what place from your past would it look out to?” This question is asked...
PhotoWings + Ashoka U InSights Grantees: Past Present and Future Self Through Photography
PhotoWings and Ashoka U are proud to announce our InSights Grant winners! Working with nine prominent university communities from the 24 world-wide Ashoka U Campuses — including Brown, Cornell, New School, Ryerson, and Tulane — we helped foster and mentor campus projects that utilize the power of photography. The goal of InSights is to demonstrate ways that photography and the ideas around it could act...
Watch: PhotoWings & AshokaU InSights Grant Winner: Dublin City University
PhotoWings traveled to Dublin, Ireland to document “Collaborating on Intergenerational Stories,” the PhotoWings & AshokaU InSights grant winning project created for the Intergenerational Learning Programme at DCU. We spoke to ILP staff and participants about the poignant and educational experiences they shared in the project, learning to better connect across generations through personal...
Video: Cognitive Scientist Stephen Kosslyn: The brain and collaboration
Cognitive Scientist Stephen Kosslyn sits down with PhotoWings to talk about an experiment he conducted regarding the brain. His team measured how problem-solving teamwork is affected by pairing people with different types of abilities together. Drawing from the results, he discusses some conclusions about assembling effective teams and how similar tests could benefit the world. Stephen Kosslyn was the...
Watch: Camille Seaman – Personal Inspiration in Photography
In this video, Camille Seaman explores the power of photography through personal terms. In her words, “photography saved my life.” She explains the magic feeling she received from just holding a toy camera as a child, and how photography provided a creative outlet during troubled times in her adolescence. Photography also allowed her to connect to her family history and illustrate some...
Watch: Jason Eskenazi – Storytelling and Visual Literacy
With an impressive résumé and humble disposition, Jason Eskenazi brings a naturally thoughtful approach to his craft. In this video, he holds up examples from his award-winning book Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith and walks us through the “visual grammar” of his photographs. He points out small details to consider when looking at photographs and speaks to how he utilizes such things as...
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. 2013’s Foundry will be held in Sarajevo. Foundry was established to bring a high-caliber workshop to people who otherwise could not attend such events. Students...
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...
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Windows From Prison – PhotoWings + Ashoka U InSights Grantee: George Mason University
Windows From Prison utilizes photography as a way to connect incarcerated men and women to their alienated pasts and to create space and humanistic entry points for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community...
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PhotoWings + Ashoka U InSights Grantees: Past Present and Future Self Through Photography
PhotoWings and Ashoka U are proud to announce our InSights Grant winners! Working with nine prominent university communities from the 24 world-wide Ashoka U Campuses — including Brown, Cornell, New School,...
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Watch: PhotoWings & AshokaU InSights Grant Winner: Dublin City University
PhotoWings traveled to Dublin, Ireland to document “Collaborating on Intergenerational Stories,” the PhotoWings & AshokaU InSights grant winning project created for the Intergenerational Learning...
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Video: Cognitive Scientist Stephen Kosslyn: The brain and collaboration
Cognitive Scientist Stephen Kosslyn sits down with PhotoWings to talk about an experiment he conducted regarding the brain. His team measured how problem-solving teamwork is affected by pairing people with...
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Watch: Camille Seaman – Personal Inspiration in Photography
In this video, Camille Seaman explores the power of photography through personal terms. In her words, “photography saved my life.” She explains the magic feeling she received from just holding a toy...
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Watch: Jason Eskenazi – Storytelling and Visual Literacy
With an impressive résumé and humble disposition, Jason Eskenazi brings a naturally thoughtful approach to his craft. In this video, he holds up examples from his award-winning book Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the...
Read More
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...
Read More
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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Watch: LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph 2013 – INsight Conversations
LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph is a celebration of photography, created by photographers, for those who share a passion for the still image. Watch the INsight conversations from the 2013 festival, featuring...
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LOOK3: Three Days of Peace, Love, and Photography
Every June, some of the world’s best photographers, picture professionals, and their fans descend upon beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia—nestled near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains—for LOOK3, a...
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Anne Wilkes Tucker – WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY
Now at the Corcocan Gallery of Art in D.C. from June 29th to Sept. 29th! Ten years in the making, WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath premiered at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) on...
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Black Tsunami – James Whitlow Delano at Foundry Workshop
Update: Funded! The Black Tsunami Kickstarter exceeded its funding goal, and we look forward to the book’s printing later this year. Presenting at the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Chiang Mai,...
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Blue Earth Alliance – Collaborations for Cause
Organized by Blue Earth Alliance, the Collaborations for Cause Conference provides an open environment in order to build strong, lasting bridges among creative multimedia storytellers, non-profits, socially...
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Malcolm Daniel
PhotoWings speaks to the Senior Curator in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A respected curator and scholar of photography, Malcolm Daniel has been an integral part of building The...
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Ken Light: Continuing the Photo Documentary Tradition in the 21st Century
Ripples from the recent economic downturn spread far and wide. Not since the Great Depression have the lives and stories of so many Americans been impacted in the collapse of financial systems. In the 1930’s, Roy...
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Brigitte Carnochan – Reinterpreting Text and Images
Brigitte Carnochan is a well-respected fine art photographer and an articulate educator, currently teaching at Stanford University. In Imagining Then, she shares her uniquely personal story in words and memories...
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Story Behind the Picture: Unintended Consequences from a Gathering of the Russian Intelligentsia
When the subjects of this photograph posed for the camera, they likely never imagined that the resulting picture would ultimately lead to grave consequences for one of them. The portrait shows a group of...
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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 photographer, photography editor and teacher, and she is one of our most respected and loved members. She is a “photographer’s...
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