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1:36:08 The Essentials: Finding Project Support with Danielle Villasana Danielle Villasana will share tips on preparing grant applications for new or ongoing projects. She’ll cover the do’s and don'ts as well as various funding organizations within the visual media industry. This video is part of The Essentials, a series of online classes presented by The Everyday Projects and Black Women Photographers. You can find the whole series here: everydayprojects.org/webinars The Essentials 1:13:45 The Essentials: Building a Narrative with Kiana Hayeri Kiana Hayeri is known for her visual storytelling that is intimate, personal, and lyrical. In this class, she will discuss how to build a narrative from start to finish, including how to pitch a story to an editor and how to break down a story while photographing on assignment. This video is part of The Essentials, a series of online classes presented by The Everyday Projects and Black Women Photographers. You can find the whole series here: everydayprojects.org/webinars The Essentials 1:23:58 The Essentials: Honing Your Skills with Nicky Woo Nicky Quamina-Woo has a career as both a commercial and documentary photographer. In this class, she will touch on the basics of portraiture lighting, marketing your work, and tailoring your portfolio to fit the client. She reviews the portfolio of three students for the class to learn from, and shows examples of successful images, investigating why each works (or doesn’t) from a lighting perspective. This video is part of The Essentials, a series of online classes presented by The Everyday Projects and Black Women Photographers. You can find the whole series here: everydayprojects.org/webinars The Essentials 1:23:23 The Essentials: Be Your Own Manager with Yagazie Emezi Yagazie Emezi will draw from her personal experiences of utilizing social media for self-promotion, managing finances as a freelancer, understanding contracts, and finding opportunities. She will speak to the challenges photographers regularly face, including setting a day rate and understanding usage and copyrights. Her session will be rooted in practical tools and strategies, and in understanding the overall value of one’s work. Yagazie Emezi is a Nigerian artist and self-taught photojournalist focused on stories surrounding African women and their health, sexuality, education and human rights. Having worked extensively across Africa, Yagazie also covers stories on identity and culture, social justice, climate change and migration. Her art practice uses photography and sculpture to construct visual critiques of Nigeria's socio-political state and the roles media play in it, pulling from history and current events. You can follow her @yagazieemezi. The Essentials 1:22:50 The Essentials: Expanding Your Vision with Yagazie Emezi In this class, Yagazie Emezi will guide us through her personal projects and finding her own creative voice in photography. As she guides us through this aspect of her career, she will talk about the process of learning to trust her own vision, what others can learn from her journey, and how she then applies her personal style to assignment work. This class builds on Yagazie’s previous class in The Essentials, “Be Your Own Manager". Yagazie Emezi is a Nigerian artist and self-taught photojournalist focused on stories surrounding African women and their health, sexuality, education and human rights. Having worked extensively across Africa, Yagazie also covers stories on identity and culture, social justice, climate change and migration. Her art practice uses photography and sculpture to construct visual critiques of Nigeria's socio-political state and the roles media play in it, pulling from history and current events. You can follow her @yagazieemezi. The Essentials 1:21:57 The Essentials Season 3: “SO YOU GOT AN ASSIGNMENT, NOW WHAT: THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S PERSPECTIVE” WITH ANNIE FLANAGAN You’ve put in all the work to pitch, make connections with editors, and you’ve landed a commission. Now what? A prolific photographer with ample assignment experience, Annie Flanagan will share their know-how on what to do in preparation for the assignment (both logistically and photographically), how to communicate with editors, and stay safe in the field. They’ll also talk about the crucial side of assignment work that’s not brought to light enough: rates, budgeting, expenses, and contracts. And, Annie will give tips on how to maintain relationships with editors even after the assignment is over. Annie Flanagan is a photographer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Their photographs are rooted in the documentary tradition, frequently exploring themes of gender, memory, and people’s relationship to place. Their select clients include The New York Times, National Geographic, The Guardian, ESPN, and The Players’ Tribune. Annie holds a Master of Science from Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Follow Annie on Instagram at @annieflanagan. The Essentials 1:31:31 The Essentials Season 3: “DO NO HARM: ETHICS” WITH CHERISS MAY In this session, prominent photographer and adjunct professor at Howard University Cheriss May explores one of the most—if not the most—important aspects of making honest and compelling work: ethics. She’ll teach about the many layers of consent, avoiding stereotypical or sensationalistic approaches, establishing trust with people you photograph, and how to control the use of your images and how to have those conversations with editors. Cheriss will also showcase examples of social impact through photography and walking the line between activism and photojournalism. Cheriss May is a lauded portrait photographer and adjunct professor at her alma mater, Howard University. Her passion radiates through her aptitude to connect to the soul of those she photographs. Cheriss’s work centers on the intersectionality of race, culture, and politics—from the White House to Capitol Hill, and everyday life in communities across the country. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and has been published in O Magazine, The White House website, People, ABC News, The Today Show, among other publications. Her work is featured in the permanent collection of the African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY. Originally from Kansas City, MO, Cheriss is based in Washington, D.C., and is a member of Black Women Photographers. Follow Cheriss on Instagram at @cherissmay. The Essentials 1:12:39 The Essentials Season 3: “FROM PITCHING TO PUBLICATION” WITH HANNAH REYES MORALES In this kickoff class, National Geographic Explorer Hannah Reyes Morales will discuss how she ideates for visual stories, and the key elements for pitching those ideas for publication. With extensive experience publishing long-term projects and stories, Hannah will also address the reality that not all pitches are successful and how to learn from each attempt so your spirit remains lifted and determined. And, she’ll walk through best practices after publication, such as promoting, sharing, and archiving your work. Hannah Reyes Morales is a Filipina photographer who focuses on bringing historical memory and current events home by looking at how they shape daily life. Her long term project “Living Lullabies” explores the role of lullabies in creating safer spaces for children and caregivers in challenging environments globally. Blending photography, audio, animation, and performance from collaborators, the project illuminates critical issues facing women and children through the storytelling of families’ nighttime rituals. As a working photojournalist, she has been published in The New York Times, National Geographic Magazine, and the Washington Post, among others. She is the recipient of the Tim Hetherington Visionary Award and the ICP Infinity Award for Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism. She was commissioned for the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition in 2021. Hannah is currently focusing on longer term projects. She is a co-founder of Emerging Islands, an artist-run residency in the Philippines. She is a National Geographic Explorer and currently a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris. Follow her at @hannahreyesmorales. The Essentials

9:09 Nina Robinson Presentation: Foundry 2022 In this video, Nina Robinson discusses the importance of family photographs, and how they can be intergenerational learning opportunities. Nina Robinson is an award-winning documentary photographer, educator, and Fujifilm Ambassador. Including precisely what is necessary, her work has been described as tender, cinematic and visceral. It has been featured on international platforms, including Netflix, Lifetime, RollingStone, New York Times, and TIME. She covers stories in the American South, Midwest, and East coast. Robinson developed a groundbreaking and innovative phototherapy program in 2015 with senior citizens at William Hodson Community Center in the Bronx. Through the use of photography, older residents were able to explore personal and social issues openly. She continues similar social workshops and programming centered around photography across the country. Robinson is committed to making photography in and with communities to expand knowledge, build relationships, and diversify visual narratives. Foundry Photojournalism Workshop provides majority world students who could not otherwise afford it, a chance to learn from some of the world's most well-respected photojournalists and photography professionals. During the pandemic, PhotoWings will partner with the VII Academy to offer an online version of the Workshop. Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 20:00 Ron Haviv - Ethics, Work, and Some Other Stuff Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2023 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 6:36 Jason Eskenazi - Storytelling and Visual Literacy Photographer Jason Eskenazi, a Fulbright Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, discusses storytelling and visual literacy through the extraordinary photographs he took for his book, Wonderland (which won the prestigious Pictures of the Year International Book Award in 2008). Jason illustrates what he calls the visual grammar of photography, which includes composition, light, perspective, and context, and how he strives to work within that grammar to capture images with an emotional resonance. See more interviews with Foundry Workshop Instructors: https://photowings.org/foundry-photojournalism-workshop/ The fall of the Berlin Wall led Eskenazi out of Queens into the larger world. After trips to Germany and Romania for their first democratic elections he traveled to Russia in 1991, just before the August coup that marked the end of the USSR, and has returned many times since culminating in a photography book project called Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith, winner of Best Photography Book 2008 by Pictures of the Year International. In 2004 he received a Fulbright Scholarship to return to Russia to make a series of large format color portraits called Title Nation with a Russian colleague which will be published Fall 2010. Jason Eskenazi has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1999; The Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize, 1999, for his work in a Jewish Village in Azerbaijan; and The Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant, 1996. His work has appeared in many magazines including Time, Newsweek and The New York Times and Soros Foundation publications. http://www.jasoneskenazi.com/ PhotoWings' mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 22:11 Rodrigo Cruz: Mining in Peru - Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2017 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 17:49 Ron Haviv: My World of Motion - Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2017 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 1:07:15 VII Community Presents - Perspectives from Africa This new series showcases recent work from alumni of VII Community. Every few months, we will invite two to three alumni of VII Community to present their stories on a particular theme. VII Community, in partnership with PhotoWings, provides a career-enhancing network for VII Academy and Foundry Photojournalism Workshop alumni worldwide. In this first episode, we will be seeing and discussing the work of alumni Roger Anis (his project “Oh Mysterious Nile…Will you be Immortal?”), Amina Kadous (“White Gold”), and Geremew Tigabu (“Eye of the Storm”). Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 1:07:12 VII Community Presents: Perspectives from Asia This series showcases recent work from alumni of VII Community. Every few months, we will invite two to three alumni of VII Community to present their stories on a particular theme. VII Community, in partnership with PhotoWings, provides a career-enhancing network for VII Academy and Foundry Photojournalism Workshop alumni worldwide. In this episode, we will be discussing the work of alumni Ranita Roy with her project “Standing on the Edge”, Nhàn Tran with her project “Between the Silent Eyes” and Billy H.C. Kwok with his project “For So Many Years When I Close My Eyes”. Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 1:17:18 Photo Stories about Small Communities This series showcases recent work from members of VII Community. Every few months, VII Insider invites photographers from VII Community to present their stories. In this episode, we look at three photography projects that document life in small communities. VII Community provides ongoing education and support to a network of VII Academy alumni and Foundry Photojournalism Workshop participants. VII Community is a program of The VII Foundation in partnership with PhotoWings. We are delighted to be joined by Peruvian photographer Francisco Vigo, who will present his project “Soon the Rain Will Come”, capturing the Porcón community located next to the Yanacocha mine, one of the most important mines in Peru. Ksenia Ivanova, a Russian photographer currently based in Georgia, will discuss her series “Between the Trees”, offering insight into the Russian-occupied breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Bulgarian photographer Mihaela Aroyo will showcase “Dreaming in Bulgarian”, giving voice to the Bulgarian diaspora living in the historical region of Bessarabia within Moldova and Ukraine. The event will be moderated by VII contrinuting photographer Anush Babajanyan. Foundry Photojournalism Workshop