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Outreach Spotlight: PhotoWings + The VII Foundation
We are excited to announce that PhotoWings is partnering with The VII Foundation and VII Photo Agency to support and enhance the VII Insider programs. PhotoWings’ support allows VII to remove the financial barriers to full membership and make VII Insider available to everyone at no cost. Moving forward, VII Insider event recordings will be accessible on both the VII Insider platform and...
Lynn Johnson – PhotoWings Interview
Lynn Johnson was hired as the first woman staff photographer at the Pittsburgh Press. She stayed at the newspaper for seven years, and during that time she convinced the editors of the Sunday newspaper to let her do photo essays. Since then, she has climbed the radio antenna atop Chicago’s John Hancock Tower, clambered around scaffoldings with steelworkers, and lived among fishermen on Long Island and...
Watch: Andrea Douglas on “The Jefferson School, a Modern American Story”, LOOK3 2015
Andrea Douglas, Executive Director for the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center presents, “The Jefferson School, a Modern American Story” at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Downtown Mall at the 2015 LOOK3 Festival.
Outreach Spotlight: Our Democracy Project
Our Democracy Project (ODP) works to empower people to tell their stories of what democracy means to them, help bridge America’s divide and create a better understanding of the media. In partnership with ODP and the National Writing Project, we are designing a curriculum toolkit that interweaves educational videos with social media and additional resources. Educators can use these virtually or in the...
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:
Photoville Festival
Photoville returns for a ninth year in a different way – online community and artist programming plus photo exhibitions in public spaces throughout New York City. Explore the scope of our ongoing partnership through artist talks, educational resources, and more.
PhotoWings Education Partnership
Building on 3 years of collaboration with educators to develop lesson plans inspired by photography projects, the Photoville x PhotoWings Education Partnership provides Artist Talks, FENCE Education Guides, and Lesson Plans, designed to engage young people with photography. Photoville collaborates closely with artists and educators in developing these resources.
Stanley Greene – PhotoWings Interview
Stanley Greene (1949-2017) was born in New York. As a teenager, he was a member of the Black Panthers and an anti-Vietnam War activist. An encounter with W. Eugene Smith turned his energies to photojournalism. Greene has photographed wars and poverty in Africa, the former Soviet Union, Central America, Asia, and the Middle East. He has won five World Press Photo awards, is a recipient of the Eugene Smith...
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Ken Light: Continuing the Photo Documentary Tradition in the 21st Century
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Doug Nickel, Former Director of the Center for Creative Photography
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Jane Fulton Alt – Look and Leave: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
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Learn more: US Library of Congress
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Bicycles and Bloomers: How Bikes Helped Revolutionize Women’s Lives
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Interview: Sandra Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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James Nachtwey & the TED Prize – a creative campaign to fight the XDR-TB pandemic
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Interview with A. D. Coleman
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PhotoWings Partner Events:
The 33rd Annual Eddie Adams Workshop
October 9–11, 2020
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop
2020 Workshop postponedNew dates TBA
Photoville
September 17 – November 29, 2020!PhotoWings creates exclusive interviews and documentation at Outreach Partner events. Explore our collection of past interviews and videos
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"Raymond Depardon's new book sees him reexamining photographs made in his childhood home, creating a portrait of place, and memory" #Archive #History #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Storytelling
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Raymond Depardon's new book sees him reexamining photographs made in his childhood home, creating a portrait of place, and memory
"The Magnum photographer’s work reveals the failures of objective truth — yet truthful understandings of ourselves may be found within it, as this essay explores" #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
Upon Reflection: Orientating The Body in Sohrab Hura’s Photography | Magnum Photos
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The Magnum photographer’s work reveals the failures of objective truth — yet truthful understandings of ourselves may be found within it, as this essay explores
"Combined, those six photographers shot over 325,000 images from the 1930s to the early 1970s. Kushner, along with fellow curators Sarah Gordon, Erin Levitsky, and William J. Simmons, selected one story from each woman that showed a different facet of Luce’s idea of American eminence. However, by showing unpublished images, too, they peeled back the glossy veneer applied by the editorial team, whose vision often portrayed American life in a different light from what the photographers observed firsthand." #Archive #History #Legacy #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
These 6 Women Shaped Photojournalism During LIFE’s Heyday
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Out of Life’s 101 staff photographers from 1936–72, only 6 were women. Despite the endemic sexism they faced, they helped define modern photojournalism.
"Man’s best friends have been depicted in myriad ways that reflect ourselves and our sensibilities, as this new book shows" #Photography #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Storytelling
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Man’s best friends have been depicted in myriad ways that reflect ourselves and our sensibilities, as this new book shows
"To mark the milestone of 3 million COVID-19 deaths worldwide, The Associated Press asked 15 photographers in 13 countries to pick the single image they shot that affected them the most, and explain why.![]()
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Their selections document the staggering human toll as COVID-19 robbed millions of their lives, and millions more of their basic freedoms and day-to-day routines over the past year. But their reflections tell a deeper story, guiding the viewer to see and understand a once-in-a-century pandemic through the eyes of people who had the privilege and horror of witnessing it up close." #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
AP PHOTOS: Photographers reflect on single shot of pandemic
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ROME (AP) — The images show the intimacy of husbands and wives saying goodbye for the last time, or reuniting after months apart. They honor the courage of nurses, funeral workers and clerics who...