Andrea Bruce:
Our Democracy
With the “Our Democracy” project Andrea Bruce brings news literacy, community engagement and visual exploration into communities around the United States. Crisscrossing the country, Andrea connects with members of the community and uses visual and audio storytelling to explore their experiences and thoughts on contemporary democracy....
Nancy Borowick:
The Family Imprint
Photographer Nancy Borowick tells us the moving story of documenting her parents’ struggle with cancer, and how the power of photography was able to help her be strong and resilient during their illnesses. Nancy Borowick is a humanitarian photographer currently based on the island of Guam. She is a graduate of the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program at the...
Outreach Spotlight:
Photoville NYC
FIRST TWO PHOTOVILLE TALKS NOW LIVE! We are proud to partner with the remarkable people at Photoville to bring their important Talks to the public for the first time in their 6 year history! As a special holiday treat, we would like to share with you two of these thought-provoking, brilliant conversations, and many more, will be released gradually over the coming months, starting in the new...
Stacy Pearsall – On The Veterans Portrait Project
After 2-time Military Photographer of the Year award winner and Bronze Star recipient Stacy Pearsall was injured in combat, she came home to receive care in V.A. hospitals. It was in these spaces that she started to document the incredible stories of the other veterans, beginning a new chapter of her life as well as “The Veterans Portrait Project,” a project that is not only...
Outreach Spotlight:
The Everyday Projects
PhotoWings has partnered with The Everyday Projects to develop visual literacy, empathy and communication skills through a variety of education initiatives and events, including a 2.0 version of their Everyday Everywhere website, a book with an educational supplement, theatre projects, new curriculum, and a series of educational...
Outreach Spotlight:
Global Nomads Group
A collection of educators and students fostering dialogue and understanding among the world’s youth. Global Nomads Group works at the intersection of cultural exchange, international education, and conflict resolution. Technology is leveraged to enable conversation between middle school and high school students who otherwise would not meet. These exchanges promote empathy, peace, 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...
Ron Haviv – The Lost Rolls
Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv looks back at more than twenty-five years of making photographs and shares his latest projects, The Lost Rolls and Biography of a Photo. The Lost Rolls explores a collection of forgotten moments and surprising discoveries leading to provocative questions from his previously undeveloped film. With Biography of 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
PhotoWings Founder and President Suzie Katz shares a personal story about...
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LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph 2015
LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph is a celebration of photography, created...
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Watch: Oscar B. Castillo: Documenting Life in Caracas, Venezuela
Oscar B. Castillo is an award-winning photojournalist from Caracas, Venezuela...
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LOOK3: Three Days of Peace, Love, and Photography
Every June, some of the world’s best photographers, picture...
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Matt Black: Lessons in the Field
PhotoWings spent the day with documentary photographer Matt Black in...
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James Whitlow Delano: Lessons in the Field
Prior to teaching at the 2014 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Antigua,...
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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...
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Paola Gianturco: Documenting Incredible Power of Women Around the World
“I photographed always,” she says. Equally natural was finding her subject:...
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Mark Tuschman – Faces of Courage
Mark Tuschman’s 30-year career in photography has taken him across the globe...
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The Annenberg Space for Photography
The Annenberg Space for Photography, a innovative exhibition space in Los...
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Watch: Camille Seaman – Personal Inspiration in Photography
In this video, Camille Seaman explores the power of photography through...
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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...
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Black Tsunami – James Whitlow Delano at Foundry Workshop
Update: Funded! The Black Tsunami Kickstarter exceeded its funding goal, and...
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Blue Earth Alliance – Collaborations for Cause 2012
Organized by Blue Earth Alliance, the Collaborations for Cause...
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Malcolm Daniel
PhotoWings speaks to the Senior Curator in the Department of Photographs at...
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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...
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Brigitte Carnochan – Reinterpreting Text and Images
Brigitte Carnochan is a well-respected fine art photographer and an articulate...
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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...
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Doug Nickel, Former Director of the Center for Creative Photography
One of the most respected curators and photo historians of his generation,...
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Jane Fulton Alt – Look and Leave: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
Photographer Jane Fulton Alt says one of the things she learned from the...
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Learn more: US Library of Congress
Sitting in their Washington offices, we tried to get a sense of the collection...
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"“Interacting with the prisoners was quite emotional for me as I felt that most were victims of an unfair economic and social class system,” says Arthur, who’s now 76 and living in San Francisco. “The prisoners became willing actors in a kind of mini theatrical drama that could express some of their interior lives.”" #Archive #History #Legacy #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
These photographers are challenging how we think about prison
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The US prison system is an overcrowded wasteland. But a handful of photographers with amazing access are fighting to humanise those shunned by society.“The way photography portrays women is a huge battlefield that needs to be addressed,” she says.“Either by giving more of a voice to women, or by providing new angles to tell stories about woman-related content. There is still a lot of work to be done… and it needs to be done by all genders. This is not only a woman´s problem.” #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
Magna Brava Ongoing • Magnum Photos
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As the group show is reimagined for a new generation, women photographers of Magnum discuss the role of the all-female show“As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment,” Dijkstra has said of the series. “In the photograph, you can scrutinize all the details…you can see things you normally would not pay so much attention to.” #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Storytelling
Why Rineke Dijkstra’s Mesmerizing Photographs of Young Women Still Captivate Us
artsy.net
Whether photographing shy teens on the beach or proud young mothers, the Dutch artist has spent nearly three decades capturing the nuances of her subjects."I kept going back through what had been chosen as preliminary — thinking about life in the United States and communities in the United States. All sections of the country are represented and we have all religions. We have many photos of the civil rights movement and also issues of alcoholism, spousal abuse and anorexia. I tried to show that the library is conscious of what is going on in the United States and trying to build a visual record of our history, so that when people want to research something, it’s there.
I tried to get complex pictures and simple pictures, and I was also conscious of the history of photography. So we go from daguerreotypes to digital. We even have a spirit photograph." #Archive #History #Legacy #Storytelling #Photography
The Power of Pictures: Viewing History Through America's Library
nytimes.com
An exhibit featuring more than 440 images from the Library of Congress’ photographic archives is featured at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles."Ryan M. Kelly won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for his “chilling image” of a car barreling into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville, Va. He took the picture, which The Washington Post said would “define this moment in American history,” on his final assignment on his last day as a staff photographer at The Daily Progress." #Photography #Photojournalism
Photography Pulitzers Awarded for Coverage of Charlottesville and Rohingya Refugee Crisis
nytimes.com
Ryan M. Kelly received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for his image of a car driving through protesters in Charlottesville, Va.