Outreach Spotlight: CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit 2025
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Visual Storytelling Summit 2025
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WHAT TO EXPECT:
Saturday, May 3, 2025: All-day event at KQED headquarters, San Francisco, CA.
Morning: Workshops, breakout sessions and experiences.
Afternoon: Main stage presentations by innovators in visual storytelling.
Evening: Night of Photojournalism—an immersive live visual journalism event and reception.
CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit 2025
PhotoWings is proud to continue our partnership with CatchLight and will share on-demand videos from 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 journalists have in fostering critical thinking and rebuilding trust? Delve into presentations and talks from previous CatchLight summits through our media archive.
Discover how images can preserve and construct the stories that define us. The CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit returns on May 3, 2025, as an annual gathering of leaders in photography and visual media, exploring the power of images to shape memory and history.
Taking place on World Press Freedom Day, the summit echoes global efforts to protect press freedom and access to information. It features a dynamic program of morning workshops, breakout sessions, afternoon talks, and an evening of live music with large-scale projected exhibitions by a global network of photographers.
This year’s theme, Photographic Memory, examines how images and archives shape personal, societal, and cultural memory. Through journalism, art, and technology, the program will explore how visual storytelling preserves history, challenges misinformation, and safeguards the integrity of our shared narratives.