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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:
Photoville Festival
2024 Education videos are now live! Photoville amplifies visual storytellers and connects them to a worldwide diverse audience through its free photo festival and year-round activation of public spaces and educational community programming. ...
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...
Watch: Conversations on Conflict Photography – Photoville Talks Archive
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...
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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...
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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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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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Watch: PhotoWings & AshokaU InSights Grant Winner: Dublin City University
PhotoWings traveled to Dublin, Ireland to document “Collaborating on...
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Photojournalism's Ethical Question: Who Gets to Tell a Community's Story?
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PhotoWings Partner Events:
Catchlight Visual Storytelling Summit 2025
May 3rd, 2025 Photoville Festival NYC
June 1-16, 2024Foundry 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
"We look back at some of the images that helped rewrite laws and change the way we think" #History #Photography #Photojournalism
‘It felt like history itself’ – 48 protest photographs that changed the world
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Protest can change everything. Which is why governments around the world want to suppress it. In a week when thousands in the US expressed their fury over Roe v Wade, we look back at some of the image...
"Do we approach the photograph as spectators, or as citizens of the world?" #Photography #Photojournalism #CriticalThinking
The Uses and Abuses of Photojournalism - Boston Review
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Do we approach the photograph as spectators, or as citizens of the world?
"More than 500 photojournalists are listed on the site, going back to the late 19th century. These women have reported from all over the world, often in war zones and other dangerous places. Many of them broke glass ceilings where they worked and paved the way for future generations." #History #Photography #Photojournalism
These are the pioneering women of photojournalism | CNN
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Photojournalism has always been a male-dominated field. But throughout history, women have made their mark on the industry.
"He didn’t set out to write a book about McDonald’s. And, even now, the James Beard Award-winning photographer still says that “McAtlas” — his book about McDonald’s — is not a book about McDonald’s." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Storytelling
A photographer visited McDonald’s in more than 55 countries. Here’s what he found
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Gary He spent several years traveling to hundreds of McDonald's around the world. He experienced firsthand how the fast-food chain incorporates local flavors into its menu items.
"Writing women and femininity into the war photographer narrative will, in part, help people to imagine women as accomplished photojournalists or war photographers. If women are not visible in the stories we tell about photojournalists, if war photographers do not look like women, it is harder for us to envisage ourselves in that role, and for others to do the same." #Photography #Photojournalism #History
Women Photographers Are Being Written Out of the War Narrative
time.com
Anastasia Taylor-Lind looks at how the industry is talking about women war photographers