The VII Foundation 2024 Annual Report

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2024 ANNUAL REPORT

2024 ANNUAL REPORT

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Members of a Ukrainian tank crew from the 42nd Brigade eat lunch in a bunker on the frontline in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, December 30, 2023. © Finbarr O’Reilly / VII.

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INTRODUCTION: THE VII FOUNDATION BRAND

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MISSION: #1 EDUCATE

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MISSION: #2 REPORT

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MISSION: #3 CAMPAIGN

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MAJOR AWARDS AND GRANTS RECEIVED BY ALUMNI

2.1 DOCUMENTARY FILMS 2.2 EXHIBITIONS 2.3 NEWS 3.1 ONLINE AND IN-PERSON EVENTS 3.2 VII COMMUNITY 3.3 OTHER INITIATIVES

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INTRODUCTION: THE VII FOUNDATION BRAND This year, we have heavily focused on rebranding The VII Foundation to clarify our mission, make it more visible, and ignite our fundraising and endowment efforts.

All our communication going forward will be articulated around three core activities: • Educate — for all training and education • Report — for all storytelling • Campaign — for all advocacy and dialogue about a free press, media rights, AI and more.

Key outcomes of this strategic shift are a new website (launched on Dec 1st) and a new logo—they have been completely redesigned and anchor our rebrand.

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Mechanica Design Director Wade Devers, who designed our new logo, says: “Since its inception, The VII Foundation has used a Roman numeral logo — a nod to the original seven founding members. But, like the stories the foundation helps bring to light, we felt strongly that an update to the logo had the potential to be a visually expressive device — something far more than just a mark. It needed to honor the VII legacy while evolving into a dynamic, living part of the brand.

Every journalist frames a story through their own aperture, guiding viewers to a focal point — concepts rooted in photography, which lies at the heart of the foundation’s work. These principles inspired the modernization of the VII logo, where the “V” represents the idea of an aperture, and the two “I”s are revealed within the remaining shapes derived from the golden ratio, symbolizing the focal point.

The result is a dynamic yet efficient system that empowers the brand to evolve alongside the powerful narratives it represents.”

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A deserted house stands in the middle of the Java Sea in Northern Pekalongan, Indonesia, on June 3, 2021, after coastal floods submerged the settlement and destroyed the village’s road infrastructure.

While many residents have been forced to leave due to advancing coastal erosion and rising seawater, some remain because of economic challenges. © Irene Barlian.

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MISSION: #1 EDUCATE

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MISSION: #1 EDUCATE

Since October 2023, the core of our educational portfolio — the three levels of the Program on Narrative and Documentary Photography (now renamed the Visual Journalism Program) — has been maintained. In 2024, we ran ten Level 1 seminars, three Level 2 seminars, and one in-person Level 3 workshop in Arles, training 140 photographers in total. Courses were taught in four languages: English, French, Spanish, and Arabic. Our student body was gender-balanced and geographically diverse.

In 2024, we received funding to deliver an L2 program for Pasifika photographers and an L1-style training program for Native American visual journalists.

The VII Mentor Program paired seven photojournalists with experienced mentors to guide them in improving their professional practice; the group gathered frequently on Zoom for guest lectures throughout the year.

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A group of Ukrainian internally displaced persons (IDPs) who fled from Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, arrive at an area near the destroyed bridge leading into the city during in the third week of the Russian invasion on March 12, 2022. © Byron Smith for the VII Mentor Program.

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01 In partnership with PhotoWings, VII Community organized in-person meet-ups with alumni in Arles, France, and Kranj, Slovenia, and held two editions of the One-to-One Program, which paired 20 visual practitioners with experienced advisors.

VII Community supports a network of 1,200 alumni from our education programs. It runs regular hangouts, continuing education lectures, portfolio reviews, and workshops and shares professional information on a Discord server.

The list of achievements of our alumni is attached as an addendum. This year alone, we had five alumni recognized by Alexia Grants and Awards; an alumnus who won a Foam Talent Award, and a mentee — Chinky Shukla — who was a Feature Shoot Emerging Photographer and won a Vital Impacts Grant to start her new project on an environmental issue in India. Another alumna, Sara Kontar, won the Inge Morath Award, while Maria Gutu won Best Newcomer in the Leica Oscar Barnack Award and two other alumni were shortlisted. Mentee Byron Smith, who was previously a VII Academy Fellow, is a finalist for the Lucie Foundation Photobook Prize for a monograph that he finished while in the VII Mentor Program. Three of our alumnae also won Women Photograph grants; three others either won or were finalists for The Aftermath Grant.

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James Nachtwey showcases a collection of impactful photographs and answers to workshop participants’ questions at the Alexandra Boulat Campus in Arles, France, in 2024. © Amelie Blanc for The VII Foundation.

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During the professional week of the Rencontres d’Arles festival, we hosted a series of events at the Alexandra Boulat Campus. The headline event was a lecture by James Nachtwey, during which he presented a collection of seminal photographs from his illustrious career and answered questions from the audience.

In September, we participated in Une Rentrée en Images, a monthlong program run by Les Rencontres d’Arles for local and regional schools. For this program, we ran workshops on image education and photography for 300 schoolchildren aged 6 to 20.

We participated in lectures and panels during the three-day 2024 edition of the Sarajevo Photography Festival, which features exhibitions, workshops, lectures, and discussions showcasing cultural diversity.

Participants from 56 countries gathered for this session focused on ‘Intersections’.

We continued our successful partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and contributed to the Dealing with the Past (DWP) program, which is part of the Sarajevo Film Festival.

We participated as industry experts in the 2024 edition of Kreativa Festival Sarajevo, a visual arts students’ festival organized by the Department of Graphic Design and Multimedia at the International Burch University in Sarajevo.

We supported the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, in partnership with Photowings, in December 2023 and continued to work on the Graduate Program in Visual Journalism, exploring potential collaborations with various public and private educational providers.

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THE STRINGER

A two-year investigation uncovers a scandal behind the making of one of the most-recognized photographs of the 20th century. Five decades of secrets are unraveled in the search for justice for a man known only as “the stringer.”

The VII Foundation is honored that our new documentary, THE STRINGER, will premiere in January at the SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL.

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DOCUMENTARY FILMS

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Erica Rugabandana on location in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, 2023. © Nature Through Her Eyes.

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NATURE THROUGH HER EYES

Nature Through Her Eyes (NTHE), our project to train female filmmakers working on nature and conservation documentaries, and one of its mentees, Erica Rugabandana, have both won two of the most prestigious nature film awards this year: • NTHE received the Stakeholders Award by the Journalists and Writers Foundation at their Pioneers in SDGs Awards.

• Erica Francis Rugabandana, the first woman out of the NTHE training program, won the Emerging Talent award for her film “Kuishi Na Simba” at the prestigious Wildscreen Festival (UK) Panda Awards. Of the 300+ submissions from 37 counties, Rugabandana’s film was one of 36 featured films. Her film was also awarded the Global Voices Award at the Jackson Wild Media Awards 2024. These two festivals are known as the “Green Oscars” for the natural history film industry.

NTHE is also finalizing Aishwarya Sridhar’s film about leopards in Rajahstan, which should be finished by mid-December. Kristina Obame from Gabon has signed her project with ARTE. And we have sent Ngone Owen Ndiaye from Senegal to the Safari Storylab run by Dr. Paula Kahumbu in Kenya.

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MONUMENTAL: THE DOME OF THE ROCK AND NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS An exhibition that allows us to discuss national identity, politics, social cohesion, colonization, division, and political violence through the presence and symbolism of two monumental religious buildings: The Dome of the Rock, photographed by Ziyah Gafic, and Notre-Dame de Paris, photographed by Tomas van Houtryve. MONUMENTAL was officially part of the prestigious Les Rencontres d’Arles festival in the summer of 2024, with an attendance of 7,200 visitors.

• July—September 2024 at The VII Foundation, Alexandra Boulat Campus, Arles, France (Les Rencontres d’Arles) • Scheduled in April 2025 at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Worshippers gather in front of the Dome of the Rock to celebrate prophet Muhammad’s mystical “Night journey”. Jerusalem, February, 2022. © Ziyah Gafić / VII.

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EXHIBITIONS

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APRIL 1975: PHNOM PENH – SAIGON The wars in Indochina were not only defining moments in history, they also produced journalism that, for many, became the mythic benchmark against which all that followed was judged. This exhibition examines the lives of journalists covering the end of the wars in Cambodia and Vietnam. It is an exhibition about how journalism is made. Dedicated to the 134 journalists killed in the wars in Cambodia and Vietnam, it features over one hundred photographs, written accounts, and ephemera belonging to the reporters who covered the final days of the conflicts. This was the signature exhibition at the Prix Correspondents de Guerre in Bayeux, and it received incredible acclaim. It was on display for five weeks and was seen by 5,700 visitors.

• November 2024, at Hotel du Doyen, Bayeux • Scheduled in April 2025 at the National Museum in Bosnia and Herzegovina A Willys Jeep carrying members of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam traverses Saigon, Vietnam, on April 30, 1975 to announce the arrival of North Vietnamese tanks during the fall of Saigon. © Hervé Gloaguen/Gamma Rapho.

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WEARIN’ IT TOGETHER: A JOURNEY OF INCLUSION THROUGH FASHION This exhibition features photographs by Franco Pagetti and garments co-created by migrants and local designers. It aims to challenge stereotypes about migration by showing the power of integration through art and creativity.

• March 2024 at the Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade, Serbia • April 2024 at the European Parliament, Strasbourg, France

“Wearin’ it together!

A Journey of Inclusion through Fashion” in exhibition in Belgrade, Serbia.

March, 2024. © François Lhoumeau.

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EXHIBITIONS

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SEE THROUGH THE NOISE This exhibition features key photographs by contributing photographers to The VII Foundation, documenting pivotal moments from global conflicts. It emphasizes the role of photojournalism in shaping the narratives of war and violence and contextualizes the work by displaying how it was published in different forms, both at the time it was made and afterward.

• April 2024 at the Sarajevo Memorial Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina • August 2024 at the Barabar Centre, Pristina, Kosovo

African migrants crowd the night shore of Djibouti city, trying to capture inexpensive cell signals from neighboring Somalia — a tenuous link to relatives abroad. 26 February, 2013. © John Stanmeyer / VII.

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BORN FREE – MANDELA’S GENERATION OF HOPE An exhibition by Ilvy Njiokiktjien that focuses on the lives of South Africa’s post-apartheid generation, addressing segregation, equality, and social transformation issues.

• April 2024 at the Galerija Java, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina • August 2024 at the Barabar Centre, Pristina, Kosovo

PRESENT - PAST This exhibition, created in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, explores the cultural and political relationships in the Balkans and fosters cross-border cooperation among artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and the region.

• May 2024 at the Galerija Principij, Rijeka, Croatia

Wilmarie Deetlefs, 24, together with her boyfriend, Zakithi Buthelezi, 27, on a night out in Johannesburg, South Africa on Nov. 1, 2018. © Ilvy Njiokiktjien / VII.

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ELEVATIONS Photographer Eric Bouvet, using large-format cameras and historical techniques, showcases a series of photographs from the French Alps. Highlighting nature’s majestic beauty while addressing environmental challenges, this exhibition creates a space for dialogue about climate change, a subject that all the diverse communities in Bosnia are concerned about. It also opens a conversation about the effects of climate change driving migration from the global south into Europe, through the Balkans.

It is accompanied by a series of workshops teaching participants sustainable photography practices, including ethical image production and the use of eco-friendly materials. The project aims to raise awareness about environmental preservation through art and education, contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to sustainable cities and climate action.

• November 2024 at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina • After its launch in Sarajevo, the project will continue in 2025 in various cities (Banja Luka, Mostar, Travnik, and Trebinje).

There, it will provide a unique opportunity for local audiences to engage with art that addresses ecosystem sustainability and will train photographers to capture these changes in their country.

Eric Bouvet leads a workshop on largeformat photography in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina.

November, 2024. © Jasmin Brutus for The VII Foundation.

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From the story “Jummah Prayer” for Dispatches in Exile.

February 18, 2021. © Sabih Sulehri and Zain Cheema.

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02 DISPATCHES IN EXILE Partnering with Tara Bahrampour and Carla Power, we are looking to build on Dispatches in Exile, a website that the foundation developed after conducting visual storytelling workshops in refugee camps in Southeastern Europe. The new project will expand the existing website by adding stories reported and written by journalists who are part of and deeply immersed in immigrant communities. To do this, we will provide a nine-month active fellowship for ten aspiring journalists from migrant communities in the UK, paired with seasoned journalists as mentors.

The project will provide education and professional development for the fellows and improve community cohesion. All participants will be paid. At the end of the pilot project, we will review and consider expanding to a new London cohort and possibly to cities across the globe over the next few years.

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NEWS

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A resident taking shelter at the severely damaged Zymnensky Female Monastery walked through the courtyard, as seen in Sviatohirsk, Ukraine, on Monday, October 3, 2022.

Part of Sviatohirsk was occupied by Russian forces until September 12, when the Ukrainian military recaptured the town. © Nicole Tung / VII.

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02 CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS In April 2024, 10 new journalists joined the roster of contributing photographers to The VII Foundation. They comprise a combination of young talents elevated from the foundation’s educational programs, including the VII Mentor Program, and leading figures in the industry who have already created significant and pivotal bodies of work. They join a team of authors, educators, and scholars who understand the importance of rigorous journalism and the imperative to engage and mentor a new generation of storytellers equipped to push back against the purveyors of misinformation and artifice.

These photographers will increase our capacity to teach and mentor in multiple languages and train young photojournalists worldwide in the essentials of reporting.

As highly active working photojournalists, they will provide the foundation’s partners with an even broader range of talent that includes working in conflict regions and behind closed borders to fulfill long-term agreements for project-based assignments.

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Their work will be included in The VII Foundation’s substantial cultural programs and critical initiatives with partner organizations like UNICEF and The Global Fund.

The VII Foundation is excited to welcome the following new trailblazing documentarians: Leonardo Carrato, Brazil. Currently based in Brazil.

Rena Effendi, Azerbaijan. Currently based in Turkey.

Mary Gelman, Russia / Armenia. Currently based in Russia.

Brenda Ann Keneally, USA. Currently based in the USA. M’hammed Kilito, Canada / Morocco. Currently based in Morocco.

Pascal Maitre, France. Currently based in France.

Finbarr O’Reilly, Ireland. Currently based in Spain.

Nicole Tung, Hong Kong / USA. Currently based in Turkey.

Adriana Zehbrauskas, Brazil / USA. Currently based in the USA. Anonymous/ Anonymous(*)

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People dig with their bare hands in the yard of Sednaya Prison in Syria on Dec. 10, 2024, searching for hidden tunnels and underground cells.

Nicknamed the “Human Slaughterhouse,” the prison is infamous for the deaths of thousands of detainees under the Assad regime. © Espen Rasmussen / VII.

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MISSION: #3 CAMPAIGN We are committed to freedom of the press, advocate for journalists’ safety, and support individuals in vulnerable situations.

We work quietly in the background, supporting journalists who need it, and organize public conversations that promote independent reporting as a tool for civic engagement and social impact. Our regular online events and in-person presentations – as well as Dispatches, our Substack publication – probe the production and power of images and campaign for a diverse, secure, and viable profession, especially for freelancers worldwide.

We do not endorse political parties or take partisan positions.

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“Journalism at Risk: Threats and Responses“ panel event at Les Rencontres professional week at The VII Foundation’s Alexandra Boulat Campus in Arles, France. July, 2024. © Camille Kirnidis for The VII Foundation.

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ONLINE AND IN-PERSON EVENTS

In the last year, our events program (run in the name VII Insider, but now under The VII Foundation umbrella) continued its successful fortnightly webinars for its 4,000-strong subscribers. Topics included the photo editor’s series, conversations with well-known curators, visualizing the climate crisis, the rise of AI, abortion laws in the US, and the documentation of ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, Sudan, and Ukraine, and showcasing stories from VII Community photographers. We also organized a special in-depth workshop series on ethics in partnership with the Photography Ethics Center.

Our hybrid events were a significant development where in-person panels and discussions were also live-streamed to our global online audience. In 2024, we ran five hybrid events in four countries: BosniaHerzegovina, France, the Netherlands, and South Africa, allowing The VII Foundation to connect with its followers while also engaging new audiences.

We moved the Dispatches blog to Substack in October 2023 to reach new audiences and have seen notable growth in our readers.

Articles exploring issues around Robert Capa’s iconic D-Day photographs and the ethical lessons to be learned from Jan Grarup’s journalistic failings received a lot of attention.

We have been using our events and Dispatches to contribute to one of the most important questions of our time – how to ensure verifiable visual journalism in the age of generative AI. We have had events on this topic, started publishing articles and interviews on Dispatches, and held a live-streamed “AI and the Threat to the Real” event at our Arles campus during the Rencontres professional week. We organized and moderated a panel on AI at the 2024 International Festival of Journalism in Perugia (which also featured the World Press Photo Foundation). Dr. David Campbell has also contributed to events on AI’s impact on visual journalism with other organizations, including Microsoft Research, the Photography Ethics Centre, and Reporters sans Frontières.

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Leelaram Gogali was resting in his house when the explosion happened at 3 PM in the afternoon in the summer of 1998.

“The sudden tremors made me think that it was an earthquake.

The scars it left are much deeper than the cracks it made in our huts,” shares Leelaram. © Chinky Shukla for the VII Mentor Program.

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VII COMMUNITY

In partnership with PhotoWings, VII Community presented Square Mile, a curated showcase of diverse photographic explorations by selected VII Community members, signifying a local perspective on spaces where personal, local, and global influences intersect. This resulted in an exhibition in June 2024 at Photoville in New York City, a screening and discussion at our Alexandra Boulat Campus in July during Les Rencontres d’Arles, and a screening at the Kranj Foto Fest in Slovenia at the end of August.

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OTHER INITIATIVES

Supporting Gaza photographers: The VII Foundation supported ten Gazan photojournalists who are unaffiliated with any major media organization in editing and curating their work to submit it to various contests.

We participated in the Global Cultural Relations Programme 2024 conference in Marrakesh, where participants learned to create emotional connections and inspire their audience through strategic storytelling. The conference aimed to foster safe, respectful, and inclusive communities through cultural understanding and empathy.

Symposium on Imagery of the Israel-Hamas War: In collaboration with the University of Sarajevo, this symposium analyzed the visual representation of the Israel-Hamas conflict, featuring satellite imagery, social media, and photojournalism. It sparked a critical discussion about how these images shape global perceptions.

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Soldiers of the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF), Battalion 08, are seen on a truck as they prepare to go to the front line to reinforce in Demoso Township, Kayah (Karenni) State, Myanmar. © Ta Mwe.

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MAJOR AWARDS AND GRANTS

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Alexia Grants • Amit Machamasi, Emerging Photographer Award, 2024 • Fatma Fahmy, Emerging Photographer – Runner Up, 2024 • Ebrahim Alipoor, The Alexia Vision Grant (Professionals), Award of Excellence, 2024 • Tako Robakidze, The Alexia Vision Grant (Professionals), Award of Excellence, 2024 • Farshid Tighehsaz, The Alexia Mental Health Grant, Jury’s Special Recognition, 2024 • Isabella Finholdt, Award of Excellence, 2022 British Journal of Photography • Uma Bista, Named in British Journal of Photography’s “Ones to Watch”, 2019 Allard Prize • Ebrahim Alipoor, Winner, 2022 Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards • Byron Smith, Gold Winner in Photojournalism Conflict, 2023 British Journal of Photography • Debsuddha, Ones to Watch – Nominated, 2023 CAP Prize (Contemporary African Photography Prize) • Amina Kadous, 2022 • M’hammed Kilito, 2020

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Carmignac Photojournalism Award • Kiana Hayeri, 2024 • Fabiola Ferrero, 2021

IPA International Photography Awards • Pablo Vergara, Best Non-Professional Editorial / Press, Environmental, 2024

Deutsche Börse Prize • Amina Kadous, 2023

Latin American Design Awards • Javier Alvarez, Silver Winner, 2023, for the book Predio

Everyday Projects • Mihaela Aroyo, Grantee, 2023 • Salih Basheer, Grantee, 2021

Leica Oscar Barnack Award • Maria Guțu, Best Newcommer, 2024 • Ksenia Ivanova, Shortlist, 2024 • Forough Alaei, Shortlist, 2024 • Kiana Hayeri, Winner, 2022 • Irene Barlian, Shortlist, 2022 • M’hammed Kilito, Shortlist, 2022

Foam Talent • Issam Larkat, 2024 • Billy H.C. Kwok, 2021 Feature Shoot Emerging Photographer • Chinky Shukla, 2024 (among 15 winners) Forhanna Foundation • Joshua Irwandi, Fund For Young Talent, 2020 Goethe Institute • Tako Robakidze, Production Grant, 2020 Inge Morath Award • Sara Kontar, Winner, 2024 • Shirin Abedi, Winner, 2023 • Mihaela Aroyo, Finalist, 2023 • Fabiola Ferrero, Winner, 2021 • Taniya Sarkar, Finalist, 2021 • Kimberly dela Cruz, Finalist, 2019 International Women’s Media Foundation • Kimberly dela Cruz, Fellow, 2018

LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award • Guerchom Ndebo, 2021 • Irina Unruh, 2020 Les Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award • Salih Basheer, Winner for 22 Days in Between, 2023 Louis Roederer Foundation • M’hammed Kilito, Louis Roederer Prize For Sustainability, 2023 Lucie Foundation • Byron Smith, Lucie Foundation Photobook Prize 2024 – Finalist (winners were not announced yet) • Javier Alvarez, Lucie Foundation Photobook Prize 2022 - Finalist • Joshua Irwandi, Grand Prize, 2021 • Jordan Gale, Lucie Scholarship Program 2023 Finalist

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Magnum Foundation • Brooklynn T. Kascel, Magnum Foundation Grantee for Health Equity In The United States Program, 2022 • Salih Basheer, Counter Histories initiative Grant, 2022 • Esther Ruth Mbabazi, 2021 • Nada Harib, Covid-19’s Global Impact-Magnum Foundation Grant, 2020 • Billy H.C. Kwok, Photography and Social Justice Fellow, Magnum Foundation, 2020 • Uma Bista, Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship, 2020 • Fred Ramos, Magnum Foundation Fellowship, 2020 • Fabiola Ferrero, Magnum Foundation Fellowship for Social Justice Program, 2018 • Tako Robakidze, Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship, 2017 National Geographic Grants • Pablo Albarenga (Explorer Grant) • M’hammed Kilito (Explorer Grant) • Chinky Shukla (Explorer Grant) • Esther Ruth Mbabazi (Explorer Grant) • Guerchom Ndebo (Explorer Grant) • Sara Escobar (Covid-19 Emergency Fund) • Joshua Irwandi (Covid-19 Emergency Fund, National Geographic Society Grant) • Irina Unruh (Explorer Grant, Covid-19 Emergency Fund) • Debsuddha (Covid-19 Emergency Fund) Nature Environment & Wildlife Conservation Trust • Guerchom Ndebo, Emerging Talent Award, 2022

MAJOR AWARDS AND GRANTS

Nikon Women Photography Contest • Sutapa Roy, Winner, 2018 PhMuseum Contemporary Photography Award • Fred Ramos, Third Place, 2020 • Billy H.C. Kwok, Main Prize Honorable Mentions, 2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant • Debsuddha, 2024 POYi Pictures of the Year • Forough Alaei, Multimedia daily life category Award, 2019 Prince Claus Foundation • Prin Rodriguez, Mentee, 2022 • Victor Adéwálé, Awardee, 2021 • Amina Kadous, Grantee, 2020 • Irina Unruh, Grantee, 2020 Pulitzer Grant • Esther Ruth Mbabazi, 2019 Pulitzer Prize • Kevin Painchaud, with the Lookout Santa Cruz staff, Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, 2024 • Joshua Irwandi, Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography – Finalist, 2021 Prix De La Photo Madame Figaro, Les Rencontres d’Arles • Amina Kadous, 2022

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Royal Photography Society • Debsuddha, Documentary Photographer of the Year, 2021 Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Award • Amina Kadous, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards • Fatma Fahmy, Winner, Professionals, 2023 • Pablo Albarenga, Photographer of the Year, 2020 Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship • Tako Robakidze, Winner, 2021 Vital Impacts • Chinky Shukla, Madonna Thunder Hawk Grant, 2024 W. Eugene Smith Grant • Oyewole Lawal, W. Eugene Smith Student Grant, 2023 • Kimberly dela Cruz, W. Eugene Smith Grant Recipient, 2021 • Salih Basheer, W. Eugene Smith Student Grant, 2021 • Billy H.C. Kwok, Eugene Smith Grant Finalist, 2020 World Press Photo • Ta Mwe Revolution in Myanmar, Southeast Asia and Oceania, Long-Term Projects, 2024 Uprising in Myanmar, Southeast Asia and Oceania, Honorable Mention, 2022 • M’hammed Kilito, Before It’s Gone, Africa, Long-Term Projects, 2023 • Kimberley dela Cruz, Death of a Nation, Southeast Asia and Oceania, Long-Term Projects, 2023 • Viviana Peretti, A Portrait of Absence, South America, Honorable Mention, 2022

MAJOR AWARDS AND GRANTS

• Joshua Irwandi, General News Category, 2021 • Forough Alaei, Sports, 1st Prize, 2019 • Fred Ramos, First place in Daily Life category, 2014 Women Photograph Project • Natalia Neuhaus, Grant Winner, 2024 • Taiwo Aina, Grant Winner, 2024 • Viviana Peretti, Grant Winner, 2024 • Rehab Eldalil, Grant Winner, 2022 • Danielle Villasana, Grant Winner, 2021 The Aftermath Grant • Nada Harib, Winner, 2024 • Viviana Peretti, Finalist, 2024 • Arlette Bashizi, Finalist, 2024 • Jošt Franko, Winner, 2023 • Doug Barrett, Finalist, 2023 The Independent & Freelance Photojournalist Award (IFPA) • Oleksandr Rupeta, 2024

Other Awards, Grants, Masterclasses and Programs 6x6 Global Talent Program (World Press Photo) • Esther Ruth Mbabazi, 6x6 Africa • M’hammed Kilito, 6x6 Africa • Fabiola Ferrero, 6x6 South America • Prin Rodriguez, 6x6 South America • Ko Myo, 6x6 Southeast Asia and Oceania • Line Ørnes Søndergaard • Mathias Svold, 6x6 Europe • Debsuddha, 6x6 Asia

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Canon Student Development Program • Kianoush Saadati, Participant, 2024 • Ebrahim Alipoor, Winner, 2023 • Fatma Fahmy, Top 5, 2023 • Anastasiia Zazuliak, Participant, 2022 Joop Swart Masterclass (World Press Photo) • Kiana Hayeri, 2024 • Arlette Bashizi, 2024 • Richard Pierrin, 2024 • Taniya Sarkar, 2024 • Fabiola Ferrero, 2019 Mary Ellen Mark Memorial Scholarship • Nada Harib, 2022 Vital Impacts Mentorship 2024-2025 • Charlie Cordero • Oyewole Lawal • Guerchom Ndebo • Ahmed Qabel • Kianoush Saadati • Ela Zdešar

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Top-Tier International Media Organizations (Clients and Publications) • BBC News • Bloomberg News • CNN • Der Spiegel • El País • GEO • Le Monde • National Geographic • NPR • Politico Magazine • Stern • Texas Monthly • The Atlantic • The Globe and Mail • The Guardian • The Intercept • The Los Angeles Times • The New York Times • The New York Times Magazine • The New Yorker • The Wall Street Journal • The Washington Post • TIME Magazine • Vogue (including Vogue Mexico) • ZEIT Online • ZDF

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News Agencies & International Organizations • Associated Press • Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) • Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) • Reuters • UN Women • UNHCR • UNICEF • World Vision International

Books Published • Salih Basheer 22 Days in Between, Narayana Press, 2023 • Byron Smith “Testament ‘22” (Verlag Kettler, 2024), Finalist for Lucie Photo Book Prize 2024 • Charlie Cordero Featured in “Inside the Curve: Stories From the Pandemic” (National Geographic, 2022) • debsuddha “Crossroads” (Éditions Images Vevey, September 2024), Winner of the Photobook award of The Grand Prix Images Vevey 20232024.

Featured in “Inside the Curve: Stories From the Pandemic” (National Geographic Society, 2022) • Guerchom Ndebo Featured in “Congo in Conversation” (Prix Carmignac, 2020) • Irina Unruh “Where The Poplars Grow” (Shift Books, 2024), Nominated for the German Photobook Award Featured in “Ukraine: Love + War 2014 - 2024” (FotoEvidence, 2024)

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• Javier Alvarez “PREDIO” (Ediciones Buen Lugar, 2022). Awards include: finalist for Lucie Foundation Book Prize (First Book category), finalist for FELIFA 2023 photobook award, and first prize at Latin American Design Awards for editorial design. ISBN: 978-956-410-037-1 • Line Ørnes Søndergaard “Bruddet” (Press, 2021) Co-authored with writer Yohan Shanmugaratnam, examining a town in transition during the Brexit vote.

• Mathias Svold “KYSTLAND” (BOOK LAB, 2019), A photographic journey along Denmark’s coastlines, featuring an essay by novelist Josefine Klougart. The 176-page hardcover book documents both everyday life and extraordinary moments where water meets land. Text in Danish and English. ISBN: 978-87-97003-57-2 • Renaud Philippe Impermanence, Self-published, 2016 • Katja Goljat, Matjaž Rušt, Ströndin Studio The Landslide Stories, Ströndin Studio, 2022

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