Outreach Spotlight: VII Community in Partnership with PhotoWings
Explore the VII + PhotoWings Partnership:
Outreach Spotlight: VII Insider Videos
VII + PhotoWings: Foundry Photojournalism Workshop
Outreach Spotlight: VII + YMCA Youth Voices
Outreach Spotlight: Lost Rolls America
Square Mile Exhibition at Photoville
About The VII Foundation:
The VII Foundation's mission is to transform visual journalism by empowering new voices and creating stories that advocate change. In a world where beliefs and actions are increasingly out-of-sync with facts and realities, transforming visual journalism is an urgent task.
The VII Foundation was developed with a mission to radically transform visual journalism as funding through traditional sources for continuing documentary practice and long-term journalism projects diminished.
With an emphasis on changing policy and educating youth, our high-profile projects narrate lived experiences, document complex problems, and seek sustainable solutions. The VII Foundation has recently produced prominent films, books, and exhibitions in multiple languages, which have been exhibited worldwide, reviewed in leading media, and taught in schools and colleges.
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 continuing education, encouraging comradeship, mentoring, and developing personal and professional skills in a media landscape where collaboration is vital.
Numbering more than 1,000 professionals from more than 138 countries, VII Community members are connected to the profession through online discussions, presentations, reviews, in-person global meet-ups, and a Discord platform for regular exchanges. All of VII Community's activities are tuition-free.
VII Community promotes open discussion, personal development, practical media knowledge, and professional training through monthly talks by industry and other experts, portfolio reviews, mentorships, and educational resources in multiple languages.
Learn more:
VII Community Website
Explore our partnership with
The VII Foundation
VII Foundation + PhotoWings
VII Community Videos
VII Community Activities
Community Hangouts
Monthly opportunities to connect with fellow members, engage in lively conversations, share valuable insights, and exchange ideas about the needs of the Community
Continuing Education Series
Live discussions with field experts on various topics
Photo Reviews and Hands-on Workshops:
Live group sessions where a guest editor or educator will provide feedback on selected projects submitted by alums
Ask me Anything Sessions with VII photographers
AMA video and chat sessions provide opportunities to gain inside knowledge and have questions answered by experts in the field
VII Insider Presentations:
A select group of alumni is invited to present their work on VII Insider
1-to-1 Program: advisory program with VII photographers:
2024/2025 Program applications should open in June
Portfolio Reviews:
Short sessions in which alumni get an opportunity to have their portfolios reviewed by guest editors, professionals, photographers, and curators
The Square Mile Project:
Our latest initiative, culminating in a series of events and exhibitions presenting diverse photographic explorations by selected community members