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Lessons in the Field Adriana Zehbrauskas Foundry Photojournalism Workshop

Reasons to Care About Family Albums - Compilation

Continuing Education Series: Editing with Photo Editor Mike Davis VII Community

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Photoville Festival Educators Professional Development Day

Photography education crosses cultures, disciplines and generations.

Visual media speaks to us in many different languages.

With our partners, we have created photography-based thinking to help enrich a sense of understanding of the world and ourselves.

Our lesson plans, curricula, and tool kits act as conversation starters and give guidance to classrooms, families, and communities as they explore their archives and develop photojournalism, media literacy and critical thinking skills. This content also helps educate the next generation of visual storytellers.

A selection of lesson plans, webinars, curricula, and toolkits for professional development, use in the classroom, community, and public art engagement can be found on our website, created in partnership with: AshokaU

Global Nomads Group

CatchLight + Dysturb

Our Democracy Project

The Everyday Projects

Photoville

The VII Foundation / Lost Rolls America and many more

Outreach Program

We are dedicated to utilizing the power of photography to further deep-thinking, communication and action. Our online content has a variety of educational applications and our collaborative partnerships pursue results that can be used for replication, adaptation, and inspiration.

Presentations, panels and curricula can be found on our website.

The VII Foundation The VII Foundation is transforming visual journalism by empowering new voices from underrepresented countries and communities and creating stories that advocate change.

Our partnership since 2016 includes

VII Community, a network of 1200+ VII Academy and Foundry Photojournalism Workshop alumni from over 140 countries, with discussions, educational presentations/workshops, portfolio reviews, 1:1 mentoring, in-person global meet-ups, Square Mile exhibitions, VII Engage presentation opportunities and a members’ Discord platform.

VII Engage (formerly VII Insider) with over 100 freely available in-depth presentations, business and technical webinars, live events and Dispatches, a Substack on photography’s role in the world Lost Rolls America’s interactive curriculum for middle/high school students and online “Parent Activities” for families to explore their photo archives Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, a long-term partner since 2011, brings top-tier free photojournalism education around the world. This year, the online workshop hosted 110 students from 44 countries, who were taught in 11 languages

Ashoka/AshokaU Ashoka/AshokaU addresses the world’s most urgent challenges with evolving solutions through its nearly 4000 social entrepreneurs in 90 countries.

Our partnership resulted in innovative content including • Self-Discovery Through Photography, an online educational webinar • A Changemaker campus competition that awarded grants internationally with several projects evolving into new PhotoWings-funded projects

Blue Earth Alliance Blue Earth Alliance’s fiscal sponsorship, administered by the Santa Fe-based non-profit CENTER, raises awareness about endangered cultures, threatened environments, and social concerns through photographers and their projects. Our partnership • Provided mission-relevant equipment and Project Photographer Business Training • Documented presentations and created interviews, creating 80+ unique videos at 3 Collaborations for Cause events

CatchLight

CatchLight leverages the power of visuals to inform, connect and transform communities. Since 2017, our partnership has included

• CatchLight Local, a collaborative model for visual journalism that aims to advance trust and representation in local media through a shared visual desk supporting 24 local newsrooms and 33 Local Fellows • CatchLight Live, including seven Visual Storytelling Summits with archival video documentation and Nights of Photography

• Original interviews with CatchLight Summit presenters, Fellows, and Everyday Bay Area photographers • A Toolkit for Artists Against the Infodemic • A Field Guide to Visual Journalism

The Eddie Adams Workshop

The Eddie Adams Workshop is a 4-day educational gathering where leading photography professionals teach 100 carefully-selected emerging photographers.

Our partnership since 2015 includes • In-depth interviews with the Workshop’s remarkable faculty • From Experience, a video series documenting important lessons from their legendary careers • Workshop presentations

The Everyday Projects

The Everyday Projects is creating a new generation of storytellers and audiences that recognize the need for multiple perspectives in portraying the cultures that define us.

Our partnership since 2015 includes • Seasons 2-6 of The Essentials, online photo-based workshops with over 30+ online sessions • A middle and high school photojournalism curriculum • Development of The Everyday Projects website • The Everyday Africa book and educational supplement, theater projects, and educational videos

Foundry Photojournalism Workshops

The Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, in partnership with The VII Foundation, brings together top-tier free photojournalism education to majority world students and those from underrepresented communities in G20 countries for a chance to learn from some of the world’s most well-respected photojournalists and photography professionals.

Since 2011, we have: • Created an extensive online library of original interviews, Lessons in the Field, and Faculty presentations • Partnered on in-country and online events.

• This year, the workshop hosted 110 students from 44 countries, who were taught in 11 languages

Global Nomads Group

Global Nomads Group offers young people safe digital spaces through which to express themselves and share their stories and connect with peers through youth-created online courses, content creation internships, discussion platforms and events for young people worldwide.

Since 2015 our partnership integrates photography and photographic thinking into: • GNG Student to World curricula and Facilitator Guides • Seat at the Table

• The student led Content Creation Lab

Our Democracy Project

Our Democracy Project is a collaborative multi-media project about how Americans see democracy and the responsibility of citizenship, emphasizing news literacy, community engagement and visual exploration.

In partnership with National Writing Project, we created: • A curriculum toolkit now on our website with educational videos, social media and other resources for teachers to engage classrooms in cross-cultural conversations and reportage about everyday democracy in their communities

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Photoville

Photoville’s work amplifies and connects visual storytellers to a worldwide audience through its free festival, education and initiatives.

A PhotoWings partner since 2017, its NYC Area Festival brings together 200+ photographers and 85+ exhibits in all five NYC boroughs (1 million visitors in 2025) along with year-round exhibits and community programming.

In 2026, 1,000+ students are expected to tour the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn Bridge Park (200K+ visitors) in the company of their teachers and exhibiting artists.

We have partnered on: • Photoville Talks • Bridging Generations - Intergenerational Learning Project • Festival Education Day • Educators Professional Development Labs • Educator-Created Lesson Plans, Educator Exhibition Grants and Youth Exchange Panels • Family Photography Evenings • Year-Round Education Artists Visits, Teaching Artist Microgrants • Community Heroes public art project, toolkit and outreach • The Photoville website, Festival Field Guide and Online Archive • Resource Guides for the San Francisco Presidio My Park Moment photo show and the We Women Traveling Photo Exhibition

W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund

The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund supports photographers whose work follows the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s humanistic photography and dedicated compassion during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist.

Our partnership will provide for: • Photographer grants • Interviews with past award winners

PAST PARTNERS AND GRANTEES

CatchLight Live

Night of Photojournalism

VII Engage How to Apply for Grants with Sara Terry and Raymond Thompson

Community Engagement Photoville Education Day

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Lessons in the Field - Michael Robinson Chavez interviewed at Foundry Photojournalism Workshop

Documentary Photography in the Era of Generative A.I. with Tomas van Houtryve and Fred Ritchin VII Engage

Victor Blue on Teaching Descriptive Writing at Foundry Photojournalism Workshop

“Working with Photo Editors” with Jehan Jillani and Olivier Laurent The Essentials - The Everyday Projects

Photo Editors Series – Andrea Wise with David Campbell and Ilvy Njiokiktjien VII Engage

Building a Narrative with Kiana Hayeri The Essentials - The Everyday Projects

The Photographer’s Role in Shaping Memory Kathy Ryan CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit

Student Education Field Trip: Jamel Shabazz “Albee Square Mall” Photoville Education

Family Albums: Why Preserving Photographs Matters Pt. II

Nancy Borowick, Ed Kashi, Olivier Laurent, John White, Michael Williamson, and Chuck Zoeller

Watch hundreds of hours of video content, all free to the public, without ads or subscriptions Explore a wide range of interviews from in and around the photography world.

Enjoy Lessons in the Field, artist talks, and panel discussions recorded at festivals and educational events presented with our partners.

Explore featured partners from our archive, including: Photoville Blue Earth Alliance - Collaborations for Cause Everyday Projects - The Essentials International League of Conservation Photographers - WiLDSPEAK Foundry Photojournalism Workshops CatchLight - Visual Storytelling Summit LOOK3 - Festival of the Photograph The Alexia - Latin American Stories that Drive Change Seminar The VII Foundation - Engage, VII Community and Dispatches

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Education and Community Building our partnerships help visual storytellers come together

VII Foundation Community VII Community offers continuing education for 1,200+ VII Academy alumni and Foundry Photojournalism Workshop participants from over 140 countries.

• Community discussions, guest presentations and portfolio reviews • 1:1 mentoring, meetups, exhibitions and photography projections • A dedicated Discord platform to enrich international community building • “The Square Mile” project brings together local stories in a global context, with exhibitions at Photoville (NYC), Les Rencontres d’Arles Photo Festival, Kranj Photo Fest (Slovenia) and PhotoVogue (Italy) with more to come.

Lost Rolls America Curricula The Lost Rolls America project offers a magical reencounter with the past to anyone who has unprocessed film rolls. Contributors provide one roll, which FUJIFILM North America develops and scans free of charge, then returns to them. Participants choose a single image and write a short reflection on its meaning and the significance of revisiting a piece of their personal—and sometimes lost—past. These observations become points of connection for other viewers, through shared memories and associations, in a collective experience.

Dublin City University - Intergenerational Learning Programme Participants in this project selected photos from their photo albums to bring to meetings that paired students and staff from the DCU community with older learners from the Intergenerational Learning Programme (ILP) in order to discuss their pictures and to reflect on and write stories about their experience. The ILP, originating as a doctoral project from Trudy Corrigan, brings together older people from the wider community along with DCU students to connect with one another on a personal level and learn together in a university setting.

Through our Ashoka U: Past, Present and Future Self Through Photography grants, we hosted a photo exhibition with ILP participants in Temple Bar, as well as the creation of a public toolkit for adaptation and inspiration.

Photoville - Community Heroes Project Community Heroes is an uplifting public art project celebrating everyday heroes, neighborhood by neighborhood. Local community groups and local artists work together through community meetings, a nomination process and storytelling sessions to produce a public art exhibition. The projects creates ways for communities to celebrate residents who strengthen and support their neighborhoods.

Through our partnership with Photoville, we developed a toolkit for the public to expand the Community Heroes projects in their own communities.

Explore the extensive PhotoWings Media Archive Our content is made free to the public, no ads or subscriptions required.

From in-depth interviews to artist talks, panels to field lessons, we highlight some of the most important stories in and around the world of photography.

Mary Ellen Mark

Legendary Photographer, interviewed at LOOK3

Michael Williamson on the Culture of Photography interviewed at the Eddie Adams Workshop

Creative Collaboration Compilation

Tomas van Houtryve on Storytelling

Alyssa Adams on preserving the Eddie Adams Archive

Photo Editors Series with Sara Leen

Photoville NYC

LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph Artist Talks

interviewed at Blue Earth Alliance - Collaborations for Cause

interviewed at the Eddie Adams Workshop

Education Day Youth Artist Exchange Presentation International Center for Photography

presentation via VII Engage

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