Ideas around images
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. The 2026 workshop continues in a global online environment. Foundry was established to bring a high-caliber workshop to people who otherwise could not attend...
Season Six of The Essentials is now available on demand! PhotoWings is proud to partner with Everyday Projects to provide The Essentials, a series of online classes for photographers presented by The Everyday Projects + Black Women Photographers! These free, weekly workshops are for emerging and experienced editorial photographers who would like to learn more about the ins and outs of professional...
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 storytellers.
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.
Smita Sharma is Delhi based award winning photojournalist and visual storyteller reporting on critical human rights, gender, social justice and environmental issues in her own community as well as in the Global South on assignments for Human Rights Watch, National Geographic Magazine, TIME and other publications.
Bringing top-tier, free photojournalism education to the world.
CatchLight is a visual-first media organization that leverages the power of visual storytelling to inform, connect, and transform communities.
A merit-based, four-day photojournalism seminar in upstate New York held every October.
Lesson plans, toolkits, and classroom resources from PhotoWings and our partner organizations
Online Learning:
Explore a collection of free, weekly workshops for emerging and experienced editorial photographers who would like to learn more about the ins and outs of professional photojournalism. Each class video is 75-90 minutes, including Q&A. Past sessions are archived for on-demand viewing!
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Community Education:
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 Insider is a program of The VII Foundation in partnership with PhotoWings and the VII Photo Agency.
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Photo Festivals:
Photoville (formerly United Photo Industries) amplifies visual storytellers and connects them to a worldwide diverse audience through its free photo festival and year-round activation of public spaces and educational community programming.
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Photo Workshops:
The Foundry Photojournalism Workshop offers majority world students and those from underrepresented communities in G20 countries who could not otherwise afford it a chance to learn from some of the world's most well-respected photojournalists and photography professionals.
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Created in partnership with CatchLight and Dysturb
Created in partnership with Our Democracy Project
CatchLight believes in the power of visual storytelling to foster a more nuanced and empathetic understanding of the world. Serving…
A collection of educators and students fostering dialogue and understanding among the world's youth. Global Nomads Group works at the…
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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"Deborah Willis’s photobook anthologised pictures made by James Van Der Zee, Anthony Barboza and other groundbreaking Black photographers from when the medium was invented. A new edition updates it with 21st century contributions" #History #Photography #Storytelling ... See MoreSee Less
25 years ago, Reflections in Black changed photography
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How a Xerox Became a Time Machine
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In "Hard Copy New York," Aaron Stern uses a Xerox machine to reproduce artists’ images, raising questions about authorship and circulation.0 CommentsComment on Facebook
"The iconic photographer believed his two years shooting horse fairs, pubs and dance halls in the 1980s had been overlooked. A new exhibition aims to put that right" #History #Photography #Storytelling ... See MoreSee Less
Pints, prayers and horse racing on the beach: Martin Parr in rural Ireland – in pictures
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The iconic photographer believed his two years shooting horse fairs, pubs and dance halls in the 1980s had been overlooked. A new exhibition aims to put that right0 CommentsComment on Facebook