Introducing the United Photo Industries x PhotoWings Educator Grant
Building on 3 years of collaboration with educators to develop lesson plans inspired by photography projects, the United Photo Industries x PhotoWings Educator Grant is an opportunity for educators in the UPI community to receive resources and support to implement a photo-based lesson from the UPI Teacher Resource library in their classroom and produce a culminating exhibition of student work.
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 June 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.
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"One of the biggest things researchers are finding that keeps girls engaged in sports is access to their heroes and mentors—even if it's just seeing them," Paterson says. "To see a banner or a poster or an ad featuring someone like you is monumental." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
The Importance of Photographing Women in Sports
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Alana Paterson documents the young female hockey players defying gender expectations."Military conflicts — like the one that is sparking between the United States and Iran — are usually surrounded by false images and outdated videos that go viral on social media. It happened in Turkey the other day.
To avoid that misinformation scenario, the International Fact-Checking Network developed a step-by-step guide to teach citizens how to verify images, from asking simple and rhetorical questions to using reverse image search on cell phones." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
How to use your phone to spot fake images surrounding the U.S.-Iran conflict
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The International Fact-Checking Network developed a step-by-step guide to teach citizens how to verify images using their mobiles"30 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Nikos Economopolous discusses the paradoxes and complexities of the Balkans and the work he made there" #Archive #History #Legacy #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
In the Balkans: States of Transit and Transition • Nikos Economopoulos • Magnum Photos
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30 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Nikos Economopolous discusses his book "In the Balkans" depicting the states of transition in the region."The dazzling imagination of Duane Michals is brought to life in a new exhibition that brings his photographs into conversation with objects, paintings, drawings and books, inviting viewers into the artist’s inner world." #Archive #History #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Storytelling
www.lensculture.com
The dazzling imagination of Duane Michals is brought to life in a new exhibition that brings his photographs into conversation with objects, paintings, drawings and books, inviting viewers into the artist’s inner world"The photographer shot the theatres just before they were demolished, monumentalising buildings which would have otherwise been lost. Of the several dozen standalone theatres in operation when Jablon started in 2008, only three remain." #Archive #History #Legacy #Photography #Storytelling
Relics, ruins and romance: inside Thailand’s old abandoned cinemas
www.huckmag.com
In November of 2007, Phil Jablon took a wrong turn that landed him right in front of Tippanetr, one of Thailand’s last standalone movie theatres. He was taken aback by the Chiang Mai building’s architectural charm. Despite its ageing and rusty facade, it had far more character than any modern Th...