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 with the goal to discover, develop and amplify visual...
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 lightning rod in debates about U.S. immigration policy, and John reflects on the afterlives of the photograph on social media and the new ways images are disseminated and...
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 supporter of Eddie Adams Workshop, and has created a series of twenty reflective interviews with the renowned faculty and...
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 Lesson Plans and Toolkits, Resource Guides, Educator Labs, an Artist Visit Fund and Educator Exhibitions. We also partnered...
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 participants....
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...
Featuring Lauren Walsh, Nina Berman, Spencer Platt, Maryanne Golon. This panel brings together a scholar, photographers, and a director of photography, and explores the complexities and ethical dilemmas of conflict photography in the contemporary moment. The tools of warfare include chemical weapons, terrorists compete using visual propaganda, and media literacy lags. The critical line between...
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 VII Photo Agency. We are excited to announce that PhotoWings is partnering with The VII Foundation and VII Photo Agency to support and enhance the VII...
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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 💜
Congratulations to @photoville and everyone that brought this year’s festival to life! We are proud of our continued partnership, and are so inspired by our shared photo community! #photoville #nyc #brooklyn
Photos via Suzie Katz
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
Congratulations to Doug Barrett (@400northcreative), the recipient of the PhotoWings Grant at this year’s @eddieadamsworkshop!
The PhotoWings Impact Grant honors a photographer whose work has the potential to create meaningful impacts through education and actionable change.
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!
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!
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!
We are honored to continue our partnership with @catchlight.io, and to gather our community at this year’s CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit. Congratulations to the inspiring speakers, presenters, staff and guests that made today possible!
Special thanks to @kqed for hosting today’s event!
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"In a series exploring the stories behind Magnum Edition prints, we take a look at a signature photograph from Abbas’s documentation of the Troubles in the early 1970s" #History #Photography #Photojournalism ... See MoreSee Less
Behind the Image: Abbas in Northern Ireland | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos
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In a series exploring the stories behind Magnum Edition prints, we take a look at a signature photograph from Abbas’s documentation of the Troubles in the early 1970s0 CommentsComment on Facebook
"In his uncanny photographs—the outcome of spending hours outside at night refining his set-up—Reuben Wu uses drone-mounted lights to illuminate natural landscapes in remote locations across the world." #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography ... See MoreSee Less
Siren — No, These Photos Are Not AI - Photographs by Reuben Wu | Interview by Sophie Wright | LensCulture
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In his uncanny photographs—the outcome of spending hours outside at night refining his set-up—Reuben Wu uses drone-mounted lights to illuminate natural landscapes in remote locations across the wo...0 CommentsComment on Facebook
"For over two decades, the Mexico-based artist has produced a compelling network of inquiries about social, urban, and environmental issues in Latin America." #History #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling ... See MoreSee Less
Alejandro Cartagena’s Prolific Career as a Photographer and Editor
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For over two decades, the Mexico-based artist has produced a compelling network of inquiries about life in Latin America.0 CommentsComment on Facebook