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Sebastião Salgado
(1944 – 2025)
PhotoWings takes a moment to remember the life and work of renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado. Sebastião spent years documenting the vast lungs of the Earth that stretch through his native country of Brazil and neighboring nations. “Amazônia” is his ongoing comprehensive survey of isolated indigenous communities, wildlife, and the aerial landscapes of the untouched regions of the Amazon. In...
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...
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Doug Nickel, Former Director of the Center for Creative Photography
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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
"For half a century, Fox Solomon photographed New Yorkers and their habitats, unraveling the city’s public and private histories." #Archive #History #Photography #Storytelling
Rosalind Fox Solomon’s New York City
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For half a century, Fox Solomon photographed New Yorkers and their habitats, unraveling the city’s public and private histories.
"To further emphasize their courage in breaking taboos and coming forward to speak about the disease in public, the women portrayed wear traditional Malagasy face masks. Made of cosmetic paste and ground sandalwood, they are both decorative and used to protect the skin. In adorning themselves with beauty masks, they are showing they are like everyone else, with no need to hide." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Storytelling
Photos: Why it took courage for these women to pose for the camera
www.npr.org
Wearing traditional cosmetic face masks from their homeland of Madagascar, they agreed to be photographed to take a stand.
"In a multi-layered group exhibition at the International Center for Photography, a handful of artists make the urgent case for an expansive approach to archives." #Archive #History #Photography
www.lensculture.com
In a multi-layered group exhibition at the International Center for Photography, a handful of artists make the urgent case for an expansive approach to archives
"Panelists Sonal Shah, outgoing CEO of The Texas Tribune; Annie Chabel, CEO of The Intercept; and Sara Shahriari, executive director of Resolve Philly, shared advice applicable to boardrooms and newsrooms alike. The panel gave some insight into how high-profile nonprofit news leaders have handled moments of controversy and transition. (Staffers, who might have different perspectives, didn’t speak on the panel.)" #Photojournalism #Journalism
Nonprofit news executives share tips on handling the tough times
www.niemanlab.org
“Change is coming to us. We can manage to it and figure out where we want to go, or we can let [it] happen to us, and it’s going to be even more painful.”
"A daughter hunts for the mother she never knew in an extraordinary, elegiac documentary." #Photography #History #Memory #Storytelling
‘A Photographic Memory’ Review: The Imperfect Past
www.nytimes.com
A daughter hunts for the mother she never knew in an extraordinary, elegiac documentary.