Outreach Spotlight: CatchLight
Outreach Spotlight: CatchLight
Explore PhotoWings + CatchLight Partnerships:
CatchLight Local: Garfield Park
Artists Against An Infodemic
Visual Storytelling Summit 2019
Visual Storytelling Summit 2022
Visual Storytelling Summit 2023
Visual Storytelling Summit 2024
Everyday Bay Area
Events:
Catchlight Visual Storytelling Summit 2024
April 27, 2024
KQED
2601 Mariposa Street
San Francisco, CA, 94110 (map)
CatchLight believes in the power of visual storytelling to foster a more nuanced and empathetic understanding of the world. It leverages the power of visuals to inform, connect, and transform communities by combining the practices of art, journalism and social justice. It is a transformational force, urgently bringing resources and organizations together to nurture and grow a thriving visual ecosystem with the goal of helping to support, fund, amplify, create and grow visual storytellers at all levels.
PhotoWings’ dedication to utilizing the power of photography to further deep thinking, communication and action is demonstrated in our partnerships with CatchLight. Our first partnership in 2017 was on the launch @everydaybayarea which helps San Francisco Bay Area residents see and understand each other across generations and cultures. Since then, we have partnered on the 2019, 2022, and 2023 Visual Storytelling Summits which use the power of visual storytelling to inspire, spark dialogue and ignite change. A Media Literacy curriculum has also been created as part of Artists Against the Infodemic. It provides a roadmap for clear health messaging in a world of misinformation incorporating photography as a central element and open-source tools for educators to help revive visual storytelling at the local level. We are currently the education partner for CatchLight Local with its Garfield Park project and three-year California Local Visual Desk initiative. Along the way, PhotoWings has documented the work and lives of some of CatchLight’s leading voices in photography and visual storytelling so their stories can be freely shared.
On-demand videos of the 2023 Visual Storytelling Summit presentations are now available below!
Recent Projects:
CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit 2024
PhotoWings is honored to continue our partnership with CatchLight, and present on-demand videos from this year's Visual Storytelling Summit! The world is facing a crisis of truth. Partisanship and distrust are at historic highs. The rise of synthetic images is undermining our ability to trust what we see. If we have, in fact, entered a post-truth era, what is the role of visual storytellers and journalists to help usher a return to critical thinking and cooperation? Explore the collection of videos from this year's summit below.
CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit 2023
EACH SPRING, CATCHLIGHT GATHERS our fellowship community and leading voices in photography, media, art and technology for an immersive day of portfolio reviews, visual exploration, conversation, and community. Join us to be inspired by artists, founders, and innovators; learn from peers and industry leaders; and explore the world through visual works of passion and curiosity.
Our theme for this year’s Summit, The Change We Want to See, reflects the unique power of photography, visual journalism, and creative practices to drive social impact.
“Images are instrumental to how we understand our world. They connect people emotionally to issues, promote deeper understanding, build trust, and spark action,” says Elodie Mailliet Storm, CEO of CatchLight. “The Summit is a place where a global community of visual storytellers and leaders in media and technology can gather, share ideas, and push the field forward through partnership and innovation.”
Returning this year as Summit MC is Zena Barakat, Emmy-nominated producer and executive design director at IDEO.
CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit 2022
CatchLight Local Education
CatchLight Local is a visual storytelling initiative that seeks to revive visual journalism at the local level by connecting visual journalists and resources directly with local newsrooms and community members including engaging the next generation of media makers and consumers. In 2020 PhotoWings partnered with CatchLight and Dysturb to co-create open source curricular tools on local visual journalism and media literacy for educators. This year we will continue to partner with CatchLight on expanding distribution of these curricular tools as well as launch a youth workshop in Salinas, California.
Artists Against an Infodemic
In 2020, Photowings partnered with Dysturb, CatchLight and The Everyday Projects to share the outcomes of the public health information campaign. The project collaborated with artists around the world in a campaign to raise awareness and fight public health misinformation. We used social media and public art activations like paste-ups, posters, and murals to encourage people to follow WHO guidelines and to connect health messages to daily life. Find the full toolkit here.
2019 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit
The CatchLight 2019 Visual Storytelling Summit brought the community together for an immersive day of conversations, portfolio reviews and workshops. PhotoWings partnered with CatchLight to document event presentations by Ethiopian photographer and contemporary artist Aida Muluneh, National Geographic photographer Andrea Bruce, award-winning filmmaker Carlos Javier Ortiz and keynote speaker, Bangldeshi photographer and educator, Shahidul Alam. We also interviewed Shahidul Alam, Aida Muluneh and Tasneem Alsultan.
Interviews with Catchlight Fellows Andrea Bruce, Brian Frank, Sarah Blesener, and Tomas van Houtryve, are also available in the PhotoWings Video Archives.
Past Projects:
Everyday Bay Area
Everyday Bay Area is a collective of photographers originally organized by CatchLight to capture the diversity and stories of everyday lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. #everydaybayarea
PhotoWings partnered with CatchLight on the launch of Everyday Bay Area (EDBA) and its Instagram feed @everydaybayarea on the theme of Picturing the New California Dream.
We documented presentations and interviewed
The Everyday Projects Co-President, Austin Merrill
EDBA contributing photographers:
Pendarvis Harshaw, Brenton Gieser, Rasta Dave, Mark Murrmann, Felix Uribe