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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...
VII Insider – Hilary Roberts and Alison Nordstrom on Archiving
In a VII Insider series of conversations moderated by Paul Lowe, curators Hilary Roberts and Alison Nordström draw upon their vast professional experience to consider how archives are created, what is involved in maintaining them for future generations, and issues associated with their exploitation. Explore all three sessions, created through our partnership with VII Foundation.
The Value of Our Photographic Heritage: Five Perspectives
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 Curator Gail Buckland, Photo Editor Mike Davis, Photography Professor Lauren Walsh, and educators and photographers Ron Haviv and Kamal Badhey with PhotoWings Founder Suzie Katz.
Outreach Spotlight: VII Community
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 and access to practical collaboration, VII Community provides a career-enhancing network for VII Academy and Foundry Photojournalism Workshop alumni worldwide. The new curated platform centers on...
Outreach Spotlight:
Photoville Festival
Returning for its 12th consecutive year, the annual Photoville Festival is excited to feature the return of our Photoville Village in Brooklyn Bridge Park with some of our classic shipping containers, in addition to open-air exhibitions throughout all five boroughs of New York City.
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2022
INSTRUCTOR PRESENTATIONS NOW LIVE! Now in its fourteenth year, Foundry Photojournalism Workshop is again bringing students together to learn visual journalism in an online celebration of our global industry. This year’s workshop includes photographers from across the United States through an intensive month-long virtual session.
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...
Outreach Spotlight: Photoville Talks
2022 Photoville Talks are now live! We’re honored to continue our partnership again with Photoville. You’re in for another rich, unique and personal photographic experience. We’ll miss our tent with all our activities but we will be replicating some of them virtually. Our collaboration with Photoville and Smilebooth will bring you a virtual photo booth as part of the 2020 festival, inviting...
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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...
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Outreach Spotlight: My Park Moment – Public Exhibition and Educational Resource Guide
Explore a community-driven educational resource, created in conjunction with the large-scale, outdoor exhibition made up of 400 photos shared by a large and diverse group of people, including everyday park goers,...
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Outreach Spotlight: PhotoWings + The VII Foundation
We are excited to announce that PhotoWings is partnering with The VII...
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Watch: Andrea Douglas on “The Jefferson School, a Modern American Story”, LOOK3 2015
Andrea Douglas, Executive Director for the Jefferson School African American...
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PhotoWings Education Partnership
Building on 3 years of collaboration with educators to develop lesson plans...
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Stanley Greene – PhotoWings Interview
Stanley Greene (1949-2017) was born in New York. As a teenager, he was a...
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Preserving Photographs: Family Albums and Professional Archives
Photojournalists MaryAnne Golon, Annie Griffiths, and Maggie Steber are known...
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Sarah Blesener – PhotoWings Interview
Multi-award winning photographer Sarah Blesener tells us the story behind...
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Archiving Images: History’s Primary Sources
From websites like Photobucket to apps like Instagram, the digital age has...
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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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PhotoWings + AshokaU Webinar — Self-Discovery and Changemaking Through Photography
PhotoWings has partnered with AshokaU to produce a free webinar, Advancing...
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Louie Schwartzberg – Learning Through Gratitude
Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning producer, director and...
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Outreach Spotlight: 2019 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit
The 2019 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit, an immersive...
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Visual Storytelling – Foundry Photojournalism Workshop
At the 2015 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, eight renowned instructors spoke...
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Victor Blue: Pictures and Words
Photojournalist Victor J Blue loves to read. “I find it sustains me,” he says...
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Adrienne Aurichio on Bill Eppridge & The Beatles
Photography editor and archivist Adrienne Aurichio, wife of legendary Life...
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Ron Haviv – The Lost Rolls
Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv looks back at more than twenty-five...
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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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Peter DiCampo – The Everyday Projects
Award-winning photographer Peter DiCampo sat down with PhotoWings to discuss...
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Daniel Beltrá – Changing Perspectives
Earlier this year at Blue Earth Alliance’s Collaborations for Cause...
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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
At Blue Earth Alliance’s Collaborations for Cause 2014, PhotoWings sat...
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Photojournalism's Ethical Question: Who Gets to Tell a Community's Story?
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PhotoWings Partner Events:
Eddie Adams Workshop 2023
October 6-10, 2023Photoville Festival NYC
June 3-18, 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
"A selection of images from Thomas Hoepker's photobook "Italia," shot between 1956 and 1959, and published by Buchkunst Berlin." #Archive #History #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
Thomas Hoepker's Italia, a new photobook | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos
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A selection of images from Thomas Hoepker's photobook "Italia," with recently rediscovered images from his early archive.
"For his most recent project, Another America, Toledano used Midjourney, the artificial intelligence (AI) program, to create color as well as black-and-white images set in a fictionalized past. Toledano creates historical-looking photographs that look almost real. " #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Storytelling
Phillip Toledano: Another America - Photograph
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In darkly humorous photographs, Toledano explores the new world(s) of AI.
Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings and Abrons Art Center, invites educators to explore the concept of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) utilizing various art mediums with an emphasis on visual arts and photography.![]()
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The Educator Lab will provide a space for educators to explore the evolving work within trauma informed care and youth development programming, and feature collaborative sessions giving participants an opportunity to explore relevant themes and connect with other educators.
Photoville Educator Lab: Fall 2023 – Photoville
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Explore projects and methods to inspire your students to create art that is collaborative and community-based.
"On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great American photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Max Hirshfeld, himself a photographer, recounts his unforgettable encounter with the master." #Archive #History #CriticalThinking #Photography #Storytelling
Listening to Avedon — Blind Magazine
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For the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Richard Avedon, Max Hirshfeld recounts his unforgettable encounter with the master.
"In his deceptively simple photographs, Valery Poshtarov pushes against the narrow confines of modern masculinity to capture moments of tenderness between fathers and their sons." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Storytelling
Father and Son - Photographs by Valery Poshtarov | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture
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In his deceptively simple photographs, Valery Poshtarov pushes against the narrow confines of modern masculinity to capture moments of tenderness between fathers and their sons