Ideas around images
Season Six of The Essentials is now available on demand! PhotoWings is proud to partner with Everyday Projects to provide The Essentials, a series of online classes for photographers presented by The Everyday Projects + Black Women Photographers! These free, weekly workshops are for emerging and experienced editorial photographers who would like to learn more about the ins and outs of professional...
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...
In this video, John Moore tells us the story of his World Press Photo Award winning photograph of Honduran toddler Yanela Sanchez crying, as her mother, Sandra Sanchez, is detained by a U.S. border patrol agent. The photograph became a lightning rod in debates about U.S. immigration policy, and John reflects on the afterlives of the photograph on social media and the new ways images are disseminated and...
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...
2025 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...
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....
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. The 2026 workshop continues in a global online environment. Foundry was established to bring a high-caliber workshop to people who otherwise could not attend...
Featuring Lauren Walsh, Nina Berman, Spencer Platt, Maryanne Golon. This panel brings together a scholar, photographers, and a director of photography, and explores the complexities and ethical dilemmas of conflict photography in the contemporary moment. The tools of warfare include chemical weapons, terrorists compete using visual propaganda, and media literacy lags. The critical line between...
PhotoWings highlights and helps facilitate the power of photography to influence the world.
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The PhotoWings Media Archive is a living collection of videos shaped through conversations with photographers and visual storytellers. Inside, you’ll find in-depth interviews, visual storytelling lessons, photojournalism insights, educational workshops, and panel discussions from leading voices in the field.
These materials reveal how photography strengthens the skills that shape our daily lives—curiosity, resilience, empathy, communication, and community storytelling. Whether you're a photographer, educator, student, journalist, or simply exploring, PhotoWings helps you see more deeply and communicate with clarity and purpose.
Bringing top-tier, free photojournalism education to the world.
CatchLight is a visual-first media organization that leverages the power of visual storytelling to inform, connect, and transform communities.
A merit-based, four-day photojournalism seminar in upstate New York held every October.
Congratulations to everyone coming together at this year’s @eddieadamsworkshop. As students and staff arrived, we caught some meaningful reflections about lessons they have learned along the way.
PhotoWings is a continued education partner of the Eddie Adams Workshop, creating educational content through faculty interviews and sharing free, accessible resources for visual storytellers inside and outside of the photo silo. They’ve created many hours of in-depth video interviews from within the EAW faculty and family that are available on the PhotoWings website. #eaw2025
Thank you Sophie Park (@sophieupark), Scott Allen (@navyphojo), and Harmon Li (@harmonli) for chatting with us 💜
Congratulations to @photoville and everyone that brought this year’s festival to life! We are proud of our continued partnership, and are so inspired by our shared photo community! #photoville #nyc #brooklyn
Photos via Suzie Katz
Congratulations to everyone that became a part of this year’s @catchlight.io Visual Storytelling Summit, we are inspired by this community and proud of our partnership! Here’s a look inside the portfolio review workshop from today’s session. #visualstorytelling
Congratulations to Doug Barrett (@400northcreative), the recipient of the PhotoWings Grant at this year’s @eddieadamsworkshop!
The PhotoWings Impact Grant honors a photographer whose work has the potential to create meaningful impacts through education and actionable change.
Greetings from Arles! We are thrilled to be on location with @viifoundation and @theviiacademy for today’s live session about Square Mile, an initiative we created in partnership for VII Community. Learn more about the project on our website, link in bio!
Come explore Square Mile, our partnership exhibition created with @theviiacademy and @photoville! The project presented diverse photo explorations from members of VII Community. Currently on view in Brooklyn Bridge Park in NYC!
We are thrilled to be back in NYC and to continue our partnership with @photoville! Come explore an entire village of photo exhibitions and installations in this year’s festival, including our PW Cube that will introduce you to our work in and around the photo world. Congratulations to everyone that is presenting this year!
We are honored to continue our partnership with @catchlight.io, and to gather our community at this year’s CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit. Congratulations to the inspiring speakers, presenters, staff and guests that made today possible!
Special thanks to @kqed for hosting today’s event!
A discussion about the power and perception of photography, the value of saving both personal and professional work, photography’s importance to history and what can be learned through it. Photo Historian and...
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We are proud to expand our partnership with VII to present Community, with a mission to foster opportunities and further tuition-free education of visual practitioners. Designed to be a space for open discussion...
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Explore a community-driven educational resource, created in conjunction with...
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Andrea Douglas, Executive Director for the Jefferson School African American...
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We are excited to announce that PhotoWings is partnering with The VII...
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Building on 3 years of collaboration with educators to develop lesson plans...
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Stanley Greene (1949-2017) was born in New York. As a teenager, he was a...
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Photojournalists MaryAnne Golon, Annie Griffiths, and Maggie Steber are known...
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From websites like Photobucket to apps like Instagram, the digital age has...
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PhotoWings Founder and President Suzie Katz shares a personal story about...
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"For decades, Deborah Willis has dedicated her career to unearthing, cataloging and showcasing Black photographers and photographs of Black people. The MacArthur "Genius Award" winner is the author of a spectacular collection of books including the seminal Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present." #History #Photography #Storytelling ... See MoreSee Less
'Reflections in Black' celebrates history of Black photography with expanded issue
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"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.0 CommentsComment on Facebook
"In war-scarred Ukraine, Lacroix’s photographs trace the faint light that slips through ruined buildings—a haunting metaphor for human presence fading but not yet gone." #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling ... See MoreSee Less
Ukraine: Through the cracks, light penetrates us - Photographs and text by Yves Lacroix | LensCulture
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In war-scarred Ukraine, Lacroix’s photographs trace the faint light that slips through ruined buildings—a haunting metaphor for human presence fading but not yet gone0 CommentsComment on Facebook
"Ann Hermes spent six years documenting American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action." #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling ... See MoreSee Less
The Offices Only a Newsperson Could Love
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Ann Hermes spent six years documenting American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action.0 CommentsComment on Facebook