Tara Pixley

1:23:15 “Managing Risk, Safety, and Trauma as a Journalist” with Alison Baskerville and Tara Pixley This session discusses key elements of risk assessment, safety and security planning, and the management of bio/psycho/social impacts in the work of journalists, understanding those experiences and the realities of the job through an intersectional lens. By recognizing how identity, environmental, organizational, and operational variables impact our health and safety for every assignment, we are better prepared to enter any space or experience. Tara Pixley (she/her) is a visual journalist and educator with 20 years of experience as a freelance photographer and photo editor for news organizations such as the New York Times, Newsweek, CNN, Wall Street Journal, ProPublica, and many others. She is currently an IWMF NextGen Fellow in journalist safety and risk assessment and a professor of journalism at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Tara was a Knight Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation of Journalism, an inaugural awardee of the World Press Photo Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative, and holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California San Diego. You can follow her @tlpix. Ali Baskerville (she/her) is a documentary photographer and a media safety trainer and advisor with a focus on freelancers. A former-soldier-turned-photographer, Alison is able to blend her military experience with her career as a conflict photographer to translate into realistic safety training for the media community. As a photographer she uses her experience to comment on, document and question the military experience that aims to make work reflecting on important contemporary issues such as social inequality, military occupation, gender identity and safety as well as the long-term consequences of emotional trauma through conflict. You can follow her @ali_baskerville. PhotoWings 49:08 State of Photography: Behind the Numbers | Survival in a Shifting Industry | Tara Pixley & Daniella Zalcman CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit 2022 Featuring The State of Photography Report with Researcher and Authority Collective Co-Founder Tara Pixley and CatchLight Fellow, Women Photograph Founder, Daniella Zalcman PhotoWings 1:19:40 The State of Photography 2022, with Tara Pixley Visuals are an ever more critical part of our media diet, but photographers continue to face economic precarity, among other challenges. The State of Photography 2022 Report, sponsored by CatchLight and the Knight Foundation, represents the first international study of photographers that specifically looks to understand the experiences of image makers from historically marginalized communities. In this event, Tara Pixley, the lead author of the report, and an award-winning visual journalist, professor, and co-founder and director of Authority Collective, is in conversation with David Campbell about the landscape of photography and what is it like to be a photographer in 2022 as revealed by The State of Photography survey. PhotoWings 1:14:30 Exploring the Risks of AI with Tara Pixley As generative-AI models make creating, publishing, and circulating synthetic imagery easier and easier, visual journalists need to understand what this tech is and how it works. This session provides an overview of what synthetic imagery is, how it's made, how it's being used, and what we can do to combat the circulation of visual misinformation as media makers invested in authentic representations of our world. Topics discussed include: deep fakes, generative-AI models and prompt practices, content provenance initiatives, current research on gen-AI, environmental impacts of gen-AI, and how to recognize synthetic images.  Tara Pixley is a queer, Jamaican-American photojournalist whose work frames race, gender, climate futures, LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities through a solutions lens. Her clients include Apple, The North Face, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Newsweek, The Atlantic, HuffPost, ProPublica and ESPN, among many others. She is currently a Fulbright Specialist in Visual Media and previously a Reynolds Journalism Fellow; Pulitzer Center Grantee; IWMF NextGen Fellow; World Press Photo Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative grantee; and, a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Tara is Vice President of the NPPA Board, a Board member of stock photo co-op Stocksy United, and Executive Director of Authority Collective—an organization by and for women of color visual storytellers, dedicated to establishing equity in visual media. She is a member of Black Women Photographers. Follow Tara on Instagram at @tlpix PhotoWings 1:02:13 “The Vision Black Female Photojournalists Bring To Major News Coverage” with Reading The Pictures THE VISION BLACK FEMALE PHOTOJOURNALISTS BRING TO MAJOR NEWS COVERAGE presented with Reading The Pictures Featuring Tara Pixley and Michael Shaw Photoville 2021 Talks On-demand recordings are made possible in partnership with PhotoWings Black female photographers bring a unique visual perspective to major news events. In this talk, Tara and Michael will take a close, fascinating and informative look at key images from 2020’s social justice protests. photoville.nyc/2021-the-vision-black-female-photojournalists-bring-to-major-news-coverage/ PhotoWings 1:23:15 The Essentials: “Managing Risk, Safety, and Trauma as a Journalist” with Alison Baskerville and Tara Pixley This session discusses key elements of risk assessment, safety and security planning, and the management of bio/psycho/social impacts in the work of journalists, understanding those experiences and the realities of the job through an intersectional lens. By recognizing how identity, environmental, organizational, and operational variables impact our health and safety for every assignment, we are better prepared to enter any space or experience. Tara Pixley (she/her) is a visual journalist and educator with 20 years of experience as a freelance photographer and photo editor for news organizations such as the New York Times, Newsweek, CNN, Wall Street Journal, ProPublica, and many others. She is currently an IWMF NextGen Fellow in journalist safety and risk assessment and a professor of journalism at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Tara was a Knight Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation of Journalism, an inaugural awardee of the World Press Photo Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative, and holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California San Diego. You can follow her @tlpix. Ali Baskerville (she/her) is a documentary photographer and a media safety trainer and advisor with a focus on freelancers. A former-soldier-turned-photographer, Alison is able to blend her military experience with her career as a conflict photographer to translate into realistic safety training for the media community. As a photographer she uses her experience to comment on, document and question the military experience that aims to make work reflecting on important contemporary issues such as social inequality, military occupation, gender identity and safety as well as the long-term consequences of emotional trauma through conflict. You can follow her @ali_baskerville. PhotoWings 56:23 Photoville 2017 – Reclaiming Photography Reclaiming Photography Presented in partnership with Reclaim Photography Saturday September 16, 2017 Featuring: Laura Beltrán Villamizar, Shahidul Alam, Austin Merrill, Daniella Zalcman, Tara Pixley (Moderator), Brent Lewis A panel discussion from the founding members of RECLAIM: an alliance of The Everyday Projects, Native Agency, Majority World, Women Photograph, Minority Report [renamed from Visioning Project], and Diversify Photo. RECLAIM is made up of six organizations who are committed to amplifying the voices of underrepresented photographers and decolonizing the photojournalism industry. They are working together to diversify the community of visual storytellers, making sure that the lenses through which everyone interpret our world are as diverse as the people and places they hope to document. PHOTOVILLE TALKS Produced by United Photo Industries at Photoville 2017 Presented in partnership with PhotoWings Hosted by St. Ann’s Warehouse with additional support by Two Trees Management (Photoville Talks Producer - Amy Wolff) PhotoWings