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Outreach Partner The Foundry Photojournalism Workshop A partner since 2011, delivering free, top-tier photojournalism education worldwide — this year 110 students from 44 countries. Explore the partnership
EDU Lab Workshop DISABILITY / VISIBILITY (part 2)
Outreach Partner Photoville A partner since 2017, running a free NYC photo festival and year-round education — from Festival Education Day to the Community Heroes project. Explore the partnership
Tom Kennedy on National Geographic Photographers
Outreach Partner Blue Earth Alliance Raising awareness of endangered cultures, environments, and social concerns; our Collaborations for Cause events produced 80+ videos. Explore the partnership
VII Engage – A City Ruptured” with Ashley Gilbertson and Renee Melides
Outreach Partner The VII Foundation A partner since 2016, empowering new voices in visual journalism through VII Community, VII Engage, Lost Rolls America, and the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop. Explore the partnership
Laura Roumanos on Education Through Photography
Outreach Partner The Eddie Adams Workshop A partner since 2015, bringing 100 emerging photographers together with leading professionals — the source of our From Experience series. Explore the partnership
LOOK3 2013 – Michael Nick Nichols
Outreach Partner The LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph A celebrated festival of photography — outdoor exhibitions, large-scale projections, and onstage conversations with master image-makers. Explore the partnership
2026 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit: Adam Perez
Outreach Partner CatchLight A partner since 2017, advancing trust and representation in local media through CatchLight Local, live summits, and educational toolkits. Explore the partnership
Kathy Moran on Ethics
Outreach Partner The International League of Conservation Photographers A community of photographers using their craft to protect the planet's most threatened places, species, and cultures. Explore the partnership

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Online Learning: Everyday Projects - The Essentials Explore a collection of free, weekly workshops for emerging and experienced editorial photographers who would like to learn more about the ins and outs of professional photojournalism. Each class video is 75-90 minutes, including Q&A. Past sessions are archived for on-demand viewing! Learn more Community Education: VII Engage VII Engage is a free online platform for public debate and discussion to advance the production and analysis of photography, documentary stories, and visual journalism. VII Engage is a program of The VII Foundation in partnership with PhotoWings and the VII Photo Agency. Learn more Photo Festivals: Photoville NYC 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. Learn more Photo Workshops: Foundry Photojournalism Workshop The Foundry Photojournalism Workshop offers majority world students and those from underrepresented communities in G20 countries who could not otherwise afford it a chance to learn from some of the world's most well-respected photojournalists and photography professionals. Learn more

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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 💜

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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 💜

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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

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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

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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Outreach Spotlight: Eddie Adams Workshop

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…
Outreach Spotlight: <br>Photoville Festival

Outreach Spotlight:
Photoville Festival

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…
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop

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. The…
Outreach Spotlight: CatchLight

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…
Alyssa Adams on The Eddie Adams Archive

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,…
VII Engage – Hilary Roberts and Alison Nordstrom on Archiving

VII Engage – Hilary Roberts and Alison Nordstrom on Archiving

In a VII Engage 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…
Outreach Spotlight: The Everyday Projects

Outreach Spotlight: The Everyday Projects

PhotoWings has partnered with The Everyday Projects to develop visual literacy, empathy and communication skills through a variety of education initiatives and events, including a 2.0 version of their Everyday Everywhere website, a book with an educational supplement, theatre projects, new curriculum,…
Everyday Projects Education: The Essentials

Everyday Projects Education: The Essentials

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,…
John Moore: <br>When a Photo Goes Viral

John Moore:
When a Photo Goes Viral

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…
Outreach Spotlight: The Square Mile

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…
PhotoWings Interview: Smita Sharma

PhotoWings Interview: Smita Sharma

Smita Sharma is Delhi based award winning photojournalist and visual storyteller reporting on critical human rights, gender, social justice and environmental issues in her own community as well as in the Global South on assignments for Human Rights Watch, National Geographic…
Outreach Spotlight: VII Engage

Outreach Spotlight: VII Engage

VII Events is a free online platform for public debate and discussion to advance the production and analysis of photography, documentary stories, and visual journalism. VII Events is a program of The VII Foundation in partnership with PhotoWings and the…
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2023

Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2023

In its fifteenth 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 around the world through an intensive month-long virtual session.
Larry Fink – LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph 2015

Larry Fink – LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph 2015

An extended version of 2015 LOOK3 Artist Larry Fink discussing his career as a professional photographer, at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall. Fink is interviewed by Donald Antrim who teaches in the writing program at Columbia…
The Value of Our Photographic Heritage: Five Perspectives

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…
Santiago Lyon – PhotoWings Interview

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…
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2022

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…
Outreach Spotlight: Photoville Talks

Outreach Spotlight: Photoville Talks

2024 Photoville Education videos are now live! We’re honored to continue our partnership again with Photoville.  You’re in for another rich, unique and personal photographic experience. 
Now Live! Everyday Projects Curriculum Lesson 1

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…
CatchLight Local: PhotoWings in Partnership

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…
Outreach Spotlight: Community Heroes

Outreach Spotlight: Community Heroes

The goal of this project is to celebrate the everyday heroes of New York City —  neighborhood by neighborhood. Heroes are residents who have taken it upon themselves to organize for good in the neighborhood. The Community Heroes project pairs local…
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2021

Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2021

Now in its thirteenth year, the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop offers majority world students and those from underrepresented communities in G20 countries who could not otherwise afford it a chance to learn from some of the world’s most well-respected photojournalists and photography…
Michelle Agins Interview – Eddie Adams Workshop

Michelle Agins Interview – Eddie Adams Workshop

At Eddie Adams Workshop, Michelle Agins, a staff photographer for the New York Times since ’89, took home the NPPA’s highest honor: the Sprague Award. We got to know Michelle at the Eddie Adams Workshop last year and had the…
Sara Terry – PhotoWings Interview

Sara Terry – PhotoWings Interview

Sara Terry is an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker, and journalist. She was a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography — and a member of IATSE Local 600. She is also the founder and artistic director of The Aftermath Project, a…
Lynn Johnson – PhotoWings Interviews

Lynn Johnson – PhotoWings Interviews

Lynn Johnson was hired as the first woman staff photographer at the Pittsburgh Press. She stayed at the newspaper for seven years, and during that time she convinced the editors of the Sunday newspaper to let her do photo essays.…
Outreach Spotlight: PhotoWings + The VII Foundation

Outreach Spotlight: PhotoWings + The VII Foundation

We are excited to announce that PhotoWings is partnering with The VII Foundation and VII Photo Agency to support and enhance the VII Engage programs. PhotoWings’ support allows VII to remove the financial barriers to full membership and make VII…
Outreach Spotlight: Our Democracy Project

Outreach Spotlight: Our Democracy Project

Our Democracy Project (ODP) works to empower people to tell their stories of what democracy means to them, help bridge America’s divide and create a better understanding of the media. In partnership with ODP and the National Writing Project, we…
PhotoWings Education Partnership

PhotoWings Education Partnership

Building on 3 years of collaboration with educators to develop lesson plans inspired by photography projects, the Photoville x PhotoWings Education Partnership provides Artist Talks, FENCE Education Guides, and Lesson Plans, designed to engage young people with photography. Photoville collaborates…
Stanley Greene – PhotoWings Interview

Stanley Greene – PhotoWings Interview

Stanley Greene (1949-2017) was born in New York. As a teenager, he was a member of the Black Panthers and an anti-Vietnam War activist. An encounter with W. Eugene Smith turned his energies to photojournalism. Greene has photographed wars and…
Preserving Photographs: Family Albums and Professional Archives

Preserving Photographs: Family Albums and Professional Archives

Photojournalists MaryAnne Golon, Annie Griffiths, and Maggie Steber are known for their award-winning work and illustrious careers—in this video, we get a small peak into their personal lives as they discuss how, even to veteran photographers, some of the most…
Nichole Sobecki on Self-Care

Nichole Sobecki on Self-Care

Award-winning photojournalist Nichole Sobecki has been on assignment in conflict zones around the world, bearing witness to a variety of difficult situations and harrowing events. We sat down for a conversation with Sobecki at the 2019 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, and…
Archiving Images: History’s Primary Sources

Archiving Images: History’s Primary Sources

From websites like Photobucket to apps like Instagram, the digital age has seen an extraordinary explosion in everyday photography, but are we archiving these images appropriately for posterity? In this video, award-winning photographers Victor Blue, Mary Calvert, Ed Kashi, Laura…
Dublin City University – Intergenerational Learning

Dublin City University – Intergenerational Learning

PhotoWings traveled to Dublin, Ireland to document “Collaborating on Intergenerational Stories,” the PhotoWings & AshokaU InSights grant winning project created for the Intergenerational Learning Programme at DCU. We spoke to ILP staff and participants about the poignant and educational experiences…
Reasons To Care About Family Albums

Reasons To Care About Family Albums

PhotoWings Founder and President Suzie Katz shares a personal story about discovering a lost family treasure nestled in her old family photo albums. The experience reminded her of the importance of caring for our old photographs, and the potential for…
Louie Schwartzberg – Learning Through Gratitude

Louie Schwartzberg – Learning Through Gratitude

Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning producer, director and cinematographer whose notable career spans more than three decades. Louie is credited by many with pioneering the contemporary stock footage industry by founding Energy Film Library, a global company, which was acquired by…
Compilation: The Importance of Self-Care

Compilation: The Importance of Self-Care

  The life of a photojournalist can be hard and dangerous, and none are immune from the detrimental effects of PTSD. In this video, award-winning photojournalists Mary Calvert, MaryAnne Golon, Ron Haviv, Lynn Johnson, John Moore, and Nichole Sobecki give…
PhotoWings Flash Grants

PhotoWings Flash Grants

We’re thrilled to announce our latest grant opportunity, a series of PhotoWings Flash Grants. Propose a photography-based project for an opportunity to receive a grant from PhotoWings. Flash Grants will be in two funding streams with more than one award…
Outreach Spotlight: 2019 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit

Outreach Spotlight: 2019 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit

The 2019 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit, an immersive day of conversation, inspiration and community featured leading voices in visual storytelling. The event began with portfolio reviews, where photographers shared their work with photo editors from media and tech organizations, museum curators and gallery…
Victor Blue: Pictures and Words

Victor Blue: Pictures and Words

Photojournalist Victor J Blue loves to read. “I find it sustains me,” he says of the narrative nonfiction published by magazines like The New Yorker and Harper’s, “I think I probably went to them initially for the photography, and then…
Adrienne Aurichio on Bill Eppridge & The Beatles

Adrienne Aurichio on Bill Eppridge & The Beatles

Photography editor and archivist Adrienne Aurichio, wife of legendary Life Magazine photojournalist Bill Eppridge, sat down with us at the Eddie Adams Workshop to discuss the work of her late husband and managing his archive. In this video, Adrienne tells…
Maggie Steber:<br> Lessons in the Field

Maggie Steber:
Lessons in the Field

Award-winning photographer and editor Maggie Steber is well-known for her passion for teaching, and so we were thrilled when she welcomed us into her classroom at the 2018 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Kolkata, India. Maggie provides insight into her style…
Adriana Zehbrauskas: Lessons in the Field

Adriana Zehbrauskas: Lessons in the Field

We had the privilege of joining veteran photojournalist Adriana Zehbrauskas on a day trip through the streets of Mexico City, her longtime adopted home. Adriana took us with her on assignment to document baptismal ceremonies at the Basilica de Guadalupe,…

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The Value of Our Photographic Heritage: Five Perspectives

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: VII Community in Partnership with PhotoWings

Outreach Spotlight: VII Community in Partnership with PhotoWings

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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Outreach Spotlight: My Park Moment – Public Exhibition and Educational Resource Guide

Outreach Spotlight: My Park Moment – Public Exhibition and Educational Resource Guide

Explore a community-driven educational resource, created in conjunction with...

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Watch: Andrea Douglas on “The Jefferson School, a Modern American Story”, LOOK3 2015

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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Outreach Spotlight: PhotoWings + The VII Foundation

Outreach Spotlight: PhotoWings + The VII Foundation

We are excited to announce that PhotoWings is partnering with The VII...

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PhotoWings Education Partnership

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 – 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

Preserving Photographs: Family Albums and Professional Archives

Photojournalists MaryAnne Golon, Annie Griffiths, and Maggie Steber are known...

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Archiving Images: History’s Primary Sources

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

Reasons To Care About Family Albums

PhotoWings Founder and President Suzie Katz shares a personal story about...

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