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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 an intensive month-long virtual session.
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. Though the pandemic has prevented new in-person workshops from happening, the 2021 workshop continues in a global online environment. Foundry was established to...
Outreach Spotlight: Photoville Talks
2022 Photoville Talks are now live! We’re honored to continue our partnership again with Photoville. You’re in for another rich, unique and personal photographic experience. We’ll miss our tent with all our activities but we will be replicating some of them virtually. Our collaboration with Photoville and Smilebooth will bring you a virtual photo booth as part of the 2020 festival, inviting...
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 everyday experiences in those communities, develop a definition of “stereotype” — what does it mean, how might it...
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 also reveals the fabric of resilience among the generations who remain in Garfield Park...
Ed Kashi wins 2022 Book Photographer of the Year award – International Photography Awards
Ed Kashi’s book, “Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter to Photography,” earned him the 2022 Book Photographer of the Year award. His work documenting the social and political issues of our time and his restless creativity place him at the forefront of new approaches to visual storytelling. In his PhotoWings interview, he discusses making change through photography and what motivates him in his...
Outreach Spotlight: VII Insider
VII Insider is a free online platform for public debate and discussion to advance the production and analysis of photography, documentary stories, and visual journalism. VII Insider 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...
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 photographers to take portraits of inspiring individuals across the city. These portraits will be displayed in the neighborhood, and will be...
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Doug Nickel, Former Director of the Center for Creative Photography
One of the most respected curators and photo historians of his generation,...
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Interview: Sandra Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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James Nachtwey & the TED Prize – a creative campaign to fight the XDR-TB pandemic
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Interview with A. D. Coleman
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PhotoWings Partner Events:
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop
2022 WorkshopNovember 10 - December 11
The 35th Annual Eddie Adams Workshop
October 7–11, 2022Photoville Festival NYC
June 4-26CatchLight Local Visual Desk
With a combined investment of over $2 million from 5 philanthropic organizations, including PhotoWings, CatchLight is expanding its Local Visual Storytelling pilot into the CatchLight Local Visual Desk which will support 5-10 Visual Journalism Fellows, a Visual Editor, and CatchLight’s Editorial and Engagement Director for the next three years. PhotoWings partnered with CatchLight on the pilot and on a curriculum to educate the next generation of visual storytellers.My Park Moment:
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Open September 1st, 2021Photoville
September 18 – December 1, 2021!PhotoWings creates exclusive interviews and documentation at Outreach Partner events. Explore our collection of past interviews and videos
"In two recent series, the photographer references fragments of antiquity, pulling the past into the present." #Archive #VisualLiteracy #Photography #Storytelling
James Welling Recasts the Ancient World
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In two recent series, the photographer references fragments of antiquity, pulling the past into the present.
"Northeast England has been home to some of the great visual chroniclers of post-industrial Britain. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is one of these photographers. Her newly rereleased book, Byker, is a warm but hard-edged record of a neighbourhood that is being demolished even as she captures her photographs." #Archive #History #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
Byker: From Here to Modernity — Blind Magazine
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Northeast England has been home to some of the great visual chroniclers of post-industrial Britain. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is one of these photographers. Her newly rereleased book, Byker, is a warm bu...
"A rare exhibition of the influential photographer’s work highlights one year of prodigious creativity." #Archive #History #Photography #Storytelling
How Steven Meisel Defined Fashion in 1993
aperture.org
A rare exhibition of the influential photographer’s work highlights one year of prodigious creativity.
"In his new book “Swim till I Sank”, Italian photographer Gabriele Stabile revisits more than 20 years of his archive, giving new life to photographs initially shot and distributed in the course of his career as a photojournalist." #Archive #History #Photography #Photojournalism #Storytelling
Gabriele Stabile: Hiccups of Memory — Blind Magazine
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In his new book “Swim till I Sank”, Italian photographer Gabriele Stabile revisits more than 20 years of his archive, giving new life to photographs initially shot and distributed in the course of...
"The Edgelands Institute aims to get the world talking about creeping surveillance culture, reporting on six different cities, starting with Medellín. Colin Pantall reports on how and why they commissioned Magnum to bring 'a different way of looking at and thinking about the subject.'" #VisualLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Photography #Storytelling
Watching Me, Watching You | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos
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The Edgelands Institute aims to get the world talking about creeping surveillance culture, reporting on six different cities, starting with Medellín. Colin Pantall reports on how and why they commiss...