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.
Outreach Spotlight:
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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