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.
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...
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...
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...
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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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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...
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Foundry Photojournalism Workshop
Every year, the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop offers a chance to...
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Ron Haviv – The Lost Rolls
Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv looks back at more than...
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Outreach Spotlight: Blue Earth Alliance – Collaborations for Cause
Founded in 1996 by Natalie Fobes, Phil Borges and Malcolm...
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Sarah Blesener – PhotoWings Interview
Multi-award winning photographer Sarah Blesener tells us the story behind...
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Peter DiCampo – The Everyday Projects
Award-winning photographer Peter DiCampo sat down with PhotoWings to discuss...
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Daniel Beltrá – Changing Perspectives
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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
Check out the featurette of the PhotoWings and Ashoka U InSights Grant...
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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
PhotoWings traveled to Dublin, Ireland to document “Collaborating on...
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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
In this video, president and founder of PhotoWings Suzie Katz tells us a...
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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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Matt Black: Lessons in the Field
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We're honored to partner with United Photo Industries (UPI) to offer an Educators Grant. Check below for details!Educators, we have a grant for you!
The United Photo Industries x PhotoWings Educator Grant is an opportunity is for educators in the UPI community to receive $1000 cash grant and a $2000 production budget to implement a photo-based lesson from the UPI Teacher Resource library in their classroom and produce a culminating exhibition of student work. Learn more and apply by OCT 25: bit.ly/2OuKQUz
This grant is open to all New York City educators who have participated in at least one UPI Teacher Professional Development Day or Photoville Education Day in the past.
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"Throughout the history of photography, African women’s bodies have been repeatedly objectified and fetishized. “The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture”, a new exhibition at the Ryerson Image Center in Toronto, shifts the focus instead towards women’s gazes and highlights female acts of looking that challenge the male-dominated narrative of the medium." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Archive #History #Legacy #Photography #Storytelling
"Caleb Stein’s monochrome collection of portraits is an “ode” to the small town of Poughkeepsie, that finds its resolution in the edenic summer atmosphere of the local swimming spot." #Photography #CriticalThinking #Storytelling
Down by the Hudson - Photographs by Caleb Stein | Interview by Sophie Wright | LensCulture
Caleb Stein’s monochrome collection of portraits is an “ode” to the small town of Poughkeepsie, that finds its resolution in the edenic summer atmosphere of the local swimming spot"Mark Sealy walks us through his ongoing project reimagining African political history through an intervention on the Magnum Photos archive, and exploring the work that images do in culture, in relation to race, as well as colonial and postcolonial African histories" #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Archive #History #Legacy #Photography #Storytelling
Challenging the Established Picture • Magnum Photos
Mark Sealy walks us through his ongoing project reimagining African political history through an intervention on the Magnum Photos archive"This collaborative photo project breaks down the traditional understanding of documentary photography as a medium necessarily bound to reality." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Storytelling
Pending Memories - Photographs and text by Adrián Fernández Milanés | LensCulture
This collaborative photo project breaks down the traditional understanding of documentary photography as a medium necessarily bound to reality