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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...
Now Live! Everyday Projects Curriculum Lesson 1
Introducing a series of ten lessons created in partnership with the Everyday Projects. Defining Community, Stereotypes, and Representation. Learning Objectives Students will evaluate how different communities or issues are represented in the media and how that representation relates to actual everyday experiences in those communities, develop a definition of “stereotype” — what does it mean, how might it...
CatchLight Local: PhotoWings in Partnership
PhotoWings’s long-term partner, CatchLight, and ProPublica have been nominated for a Gather Award for excellence in community-centered journalism for “Meeting History: A Garfield Park Citizen Archive. Through contemporary portraiture and the archiving, publishing, and exhibition of community photography, the project also reveals the fabric of resilience among the generations who remain in Garfield Park...
Ed Kashi wins 2022 Book Photographer of the Year award – International Photography Awards
Ed Kashi’s book, “Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter to Photography,” earned him the 2022 Book Photographer of the Year award. His work documenting the social and political issues of our time and his restless creativity place him at the forefront of new approaches to visual storytelling. In his PhotoWings interview, he discusses making change through photography and what motivates him in his...
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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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The Value of Our Photographic Heritage: Five Perspectives
A discussion about the power and perception of photography, the value of...
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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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PhotoWings Partner Events:
Photoville 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
"Albert Watson is a fashion, celebrity, and art photographer with over 100 Vogue covers and iconic images of celebrities and champions of business captured for over five decades. His subjects have included Mick Jagger, Steve Jobs, Jack Nicholson, Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, David Bowie, Tupac Shakur, and Andy Warhol." #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
Albert Watson: Legendary Photographer of Fashion and Celebrity
petapixel.com
An interview with legendary photographer Albert Watson, a modern master of fashion, celebrity, and art photography.
"The photographer’s multilayered still lifes interrogate the trade routes between Africa, the Caribbean, and the US—and show how memory emerges through the senses." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Storytelling
Samantha Box's Pictures of Dreams and Diaspora
aperture.org
The 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize runner-up interrogates the trade routes between Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.
"The renowned fashion photographer's previously unseen experimental collages tell the story of a fictional designer who disappears at the height of her career" #Archive #History #Photography #Storytelling
The Strange and Beautiful World of Deborah Turbeville's Photo-Novella
aperture.org
The renowned fashion photographer's experimental collages tell the story of a fictional designer who disappears at the height of her career.
"The scavengers of Dandora — men, women, children, flesh-eating Marabou storks, and wild pigs — battle daily for the discarded waste generated by the people and businesses of Nairobi, Kenya. With a population of almost 4.5 million, Dandora, the 30-acre central dumping site for the city, appears to heave and groan as it releases fumes into the air, creating a toxic stew unparalleled on the continent." #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
The Waste Pickers of Dandora — Blind Magazine
www.blind-magazine.com
Spectacle de l’horreur et de la tragédie, les photos de Sam Barker nous immergent dans la décharge municipale de Dandora, au Kenya.
"Winner of the 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Nguyen casts an intimate gaze upon a generation confronting historical stereotypes." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Storytelling
Vân-Nhi Nguyen’s Bold Perspective on the Lives of Young People in Vietnam
aperture.org
Winner of the 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Nguyen casts an intimate gaze upon a generation confronting historical stereotypes.