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Outreach Spotlight:
Photoville Festival
2024 Education videos are now live! Photoville connects visual storytellers to a worldwide audience through its free photo festival in New York City, year-round activation of public spaces, and community educational programming. Since 2017, our education partnership has resulted in Lesson Plans and Toolkits, Resource Guides, Educator Labs, an Artist Visit Fund and Educator Exhibitions. We also partnered...
Outreach Spotlight: CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit 2025
PhotoWings is proud to continue our collaboration with CatchLight and to announce the 2025 Visual Storytelling Summit! In an era where truth is increasingly contested, partisanship and distrust have reached unprecedented levels. The rise of synthetic imagery further challenges our ability to discern reality. If we are indeed navigating a post-truth world, what responsibility do visual storytellers 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...
Outreach Spotlight: The Square Mile
Square Mile is an initiative by VII Community, a program of The VII Foundation in partnership with PhotoWings. The initiative presents diverse photographic explorations by members of VII Community, a worldwide network of VII Academy alumni, and Foundry Photojournalism Workshop participants....
Santiago Lyon – PhotoWings Interview
Santiago Lyon is the Head of Advocacy and Education for the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative, working to combat misinformation through digital content provenance. He has more than 35 years of experience in photography as an award-winning photojournalist, photo editor, media executive and...
Outreach Spotlight: CatchLight
CatchLight believes in the power of visual storytelling to foster a more nuanced and empathetic understanding of the world. Serving as a transformational force, it is urgently bringing resources and organizations together to support leaders in a thriving visual ecosystem with the goal to discover, develop and amplify visual...
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. Though the pandemic has prevented new in-person workshops from happening, the 2021 workshop continues in a global online environment. Foundry was established to...
Watch: Conversations on Conflict Photography – Photoville Talks Archive
Featuring Lauren Walsh, Nina Berman, Spencer Platt, Maryanne Golon. This panel brings together a scholar, photographers, and a director of photography, and explores the complexities and ethical dilemmas of conflict photography in the contemporary moment. The tools of warfare include chemical weapons, terrorists compete using visual propaganda, and media literacy lags. The critical line between...
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The Value of Our Photographic Heritage: Five Perspectives
A discussion about the power and perception of photography, the value of saving both personal and professional work, photography’s importance to history and what can be learned through it. Photo Historian and...
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Outreach Spotlight: My Park Moment – Public Exhibition and Educational Resource Guide
Explore a community-driven educational resource, created in conjunction with the large-scale, outdoor exhibition made up of 400 photos shared by a large and diverse group of people, including everyday park goers,...
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Watch: Andrea Douglas on “The Jefferson School, a Modern American Story”, LOOK3 2015
Andrea Douglas, Executive Director for the Jefferson School African American...
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Outreach Spotlight: PhotoWings + The VII Foundation
We are excited to announce that PhotoWings is partnering with The VII...
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PhotoWings Education Partnership
Building on 3 years of collaboration with educators to develop lesson plans...
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Stanley Greene – PhotoWings Interview
Stanley Greene (1949-2017) was born in New York. As a teenager, he was a...
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Preserving Photographs: Family Albums and Professional Archives
Photojournalists MaryAnne Golon, Annie Griffiths, and Maggie Steber are known...
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Sarah Blesener – PhotoWings Interview
Multi-award winning photographer Sarah Blesener tells us the story behind...
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Archiving Images: History’s Primary Sources
From websites like Photobucket to apps like Instagram, the digital age has...
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Reasons To Care About Family Albums
PhotoWings Founder and President Suzie Katz shares a personal story about...
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PhotoWings + AshokaU Webinar — Self-Discovery and Changemaking Through Photography
PhotoWings has partnered with AshokaU to produce a free webinar, Advancing...
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Louie Schwartzberg – Learning Through Gratitude
Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning producer, director and...
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Outreach Spotlight: 2019 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit
The 2019 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit, an immersive...
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Visual Storytelling – Foundry Photojournalism Workshop
At the 2015 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, eight renowned instructors spoke...
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Victor Blue: Pictures and Words
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Adrienne Aurichio on Bill Eppridge & The Beatles
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Ron Haviv – The Lost Rolls
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Peter DiCampo – The Everyday Projects
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Daniel Beltrá – Changing Perspectives
Earlier this year at Blue Earth Alliance’s Collaborations for Cause...
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Edward Echwalu – A Photographer’s Motivation
PhotoWings had the opportunity to talk with photojournalist and teacher Edward...
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John Stanmeyer – Story Behind the Photograph
Longtime National Geographic photojournalist John Stanmeyer shares the...
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Watch: PhotoWings + Ashoka U InSights Grantees
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Mark Strandquist – Performing Statistics / Windows from Prison
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Watch: Mike Davis – The Music of Photographs
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Watch: PhotoWings & AshokaU InSights Grant Winner: Dublin City University
PhotoWings traveled to Dublin, Ireland to document “Collaborating on...
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PhotoWings Partner Events:
Photoville Festival NYC
June 7-22, 2025
Catchlight Visual Storytelling Summit 2025
May 3rd, 2025 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop
December 8-10, 2023Eddie Adams Workshop 2023
October 6-10, 2023CatchLight Local Visual Desk
With a combined investment of over $2 million from 5 philanthropic organizations, including PhotoWings, CatchLight is expanding its Local Visual Storytelling pilot into the CatchLight Local Visual Desk which will support 5-10 Visual Journalism Fellows, a Visual Editor, and CatchLight’s Editorial and Engagement Director for the next three years. PhotoWings partnered with CatchLight on the pilot and on a curriculum to educate the next generation of visual storytellers.PhotoWings creates exclusive interviews and documentation at Outreach Partner events. Explore our collection of past interviews and videos
"Along a border at the center of the political and journalistic debate, “Borderlands” aims to develop a narration capable of going beyond the emergency perspective under which the US/Mexico border related issues are often presented and to vehicle the complexity of this 3600 kilometers long line that has been crossed by migrants and travelers for decades." #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
“Borderlands, an American Journey” by Francesco Anselmi
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“Borderlands, an American Journey” by Francesco Anselmi Along a border at the center of the political and journalistic debate, “Borderlands” aims to develop a narration capable of going...
"In the Florida island town of Longboat Key, the photographer—and winner of the 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize—portrays a home upended by loss." #Photography #Storytelling
A Photographer’s Haunting Story of Family and Memory
aperture.org
In the Florida island town of Longboat Key, Alana Perino—winner of the 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize—portrays a home upended by loss.
"In his documentation of the Indian island of Majuli, where the climate catastrophe shapes the daily lives of everyone living there, András Zoltai shifts from a destruction-led narrative to one of human perseverance that focuses on our intimate relationship with water." #Photography #Storytelling
Flood Me, I’ll Be Here - Photographs by Andras Zoltai | Interview by Sophie Wright | LensCulture
www.lensculture.com
In his documentation of the Indian island of Majuli, where the climate catastrophe shapes the daily lives of everyone living there, András Zoltai shifts from a destruction-led narrative to one of hum...
"Surprisingly, the fierce Santa Ana winds that whipped the Palisades and Eaton fires into deadly infernos in January spared many precious things you’d think would have been the first to burn: old family photos, kids’ art, postcards, yearbook pages and even old sheet music. Claire Schwartz, an Altadena resident, has made it her mission to help reunite those keepsakes with their owners." #Photography #Archive #History #Storytelling
In LA, A Photo Detective Reunites Wildfire Survivors with Lost Images | KQED
www.kqed.org
After the Eaton Fire, Altadena residents turned to social media to locate and return precious family photos and kids’ art.
"Memories often bring solace in prison, so capturing them in photos brings a layer of permanence." #Photography #Storytelling
Why Photographs Mean So Much to People in Prison
aperture.org
Derek LeCompte writes about how memories often bring solace in prison, so capturing them in photos brings a layer of permanence.