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SPRING FUNDRAISING DRIVE!
Your donation will help fund our programming initiatives, and for donations of $50 or more you'll receive a limited edition tote bag, made in collaboration with Zuri.
Here at The Everyday Projects, we continue to find the extreme not nearly as prevalent as the familiar, the everyday. In order to help our community learn more, see more, and do more, we've created a webinar series, a photographer grant, a curriculum for middle and high school students, a podcast series, and more.
Please help us share our vision and support our global community of photographers.
We are thrilled to offer this beautiful tote bag through our collaboration with Zuri, an ethical clothing company that works with an incredible network of fabric vendors and creatives in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi.
Each unique patchwork tote is made with different fabric swatches and includes a photograph by Yagazie Emezi. Use it for your grocery shopping, commuting, or packing needs while also supporting a good cause — The Everyday Projects and our community. Thank you!
NPR: Can a picture make you happy? We asked photographers and here's what they sent us
March 20 is a day dedicated to joy! Since 2013, the United Nations' International Day of Happiness has recognized the value of happiness as "a fundamental goal" in people's lives around the world.
Martin Elizalde Valenzuela paints houses in the morning and is happy to sell his churros in the afternoon. The photo was taken in Jalisco, Mexico, on Dec. 26, 2022.
Yolanda Escobar Jimenez for NPR
The happiness campaigns are coordinated by the nonprofit Action for Happiness, which has thousands of members from 193 countries and whose patron is the Dalai Lama. The organization hosts online talks and coaching, and even an app that suggests ways to discover joy.
This year's theme is "Happier Together." The explanation is: "At this time of uncertainty and conflict ... lasting happiness comes from feeling connected to others and being part of something bigger."
In collaboration with NPR, contributors from The Everyday Projects — a global community of photographers using images to challenge harmful stereotypes — to look through their archives for scenes that capture a sense of happiness and well-being, from small uplifting moments to big bursts of joy. They shared photos of former child soldiers playing soccer, of finding inspiration by listening to the blues, of teen girls in Ukraine blissfully jumping on a trampoline, of an older couple's moment of togetherness.
The Everyday Projects at Oldenburg Castle
Photo by Ngadi Smart
For the fifth time, The Everyday Projects has a special exhibit at World Press Photos in Oldenburg Castle, @wppausstellung_oldenburg
Featuring work by seven contributors of The Everyday Projects, the new exhibition focuses on local initiatives against climate change. From around the globe, the 50 photos document how people face problems with resilience and innovation.
Villages in India and Guatemala are returning to agriculture that is carried out in harmony with nature. A research team in Maine, USA, is researching seaweed as an all-purpose solution to global warming. On the Kenyan island of Pate, the population is committed to protecting the mangrove forests, which are vital to people's survival.
Photographers in the exhibit are Ngadi Smart (@ngadismart), Veejay Villafranca (@vjvillafranca), Smita Sharma (@smitashrm), Mette Lampcov (@mettelampcov), Sarah Waiswa (@lafrohemien), Lauren Owens Lambert (@lauren.o.lambert), and James Rodríguez (@mimundo_org).
THE EVERYDAY PROJECTS 2023 YEAR IN REVIEW
Photo by Mihaela Aroyo
2023 was an incredible year for The Everyday Projects. We produced another season of The Essentials, gave grants to two journalists to report on their local communities, were featured in global exhibits, and so much more. On top of that, we expanded our community of phenomenal photographers, who are creating images that break stereotypes and change minds!
SAVE THE DATE FOR OCT. 28 + 29 AND REGISTER NOW!
Welcome to The Essentials: free online classes created in collaboration with our partners Black Women Photographers and Photo Wings!
On October 28th and 29th, highly experienced visual storytellers will share their expertise on everything from covering news beyond the headlines, thinking outside the editorial box, editing for an assignment and personal project, incorporating video work into your practice, and more!
Each class is 75 minutes long, including lots of time for Q&A, and is for both emerging and experienced storytellers wanting to hone their skills and learn more about successfully navigating the visual media industry.
Register here and see the full schedule here.
THE EVERYDAY PROJECTS IS thrilled to INTRODUCE THE LIMITED EDITION EVERYDAY TOTE!
We are excited to announce a partnership with Zuri, an ethical fashion company based in Nairobi, Kenya.
These one-of-a-kind bags feature an image by Everyday Africa photographer Yagazie Emezi, a Nigerian artist and self-taught photojournalist focused on stories surrounding African women and their health, sexuality, education and human rights.
The rest of the bag is made up of materials leftover at Zuri’s shop, meaning that each bag is unique, environmentally friendly, and tote-ally yours.
We are selling these one-of-a-kind bags as a fundraiser for The Everyday Projects. All funds from your purchase go towards helping us support the community of 400+ Everyday photographers, with whom we work to do good things — in classrooms (new 10-part curriculum is now live), The Essentials (ongoing free online professional development workshops for early-career photographers), grants ($6,000 each, awarded to photographers working on a longterm project in their own community), and in exhibition spaces and publications around the world.
THE EVERYDAY PROJECTS IS EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR 2023 GRANT WINNERS
Photo by Jaír F. Coll
Congratulations Mihaela Aroyo and Jaír F. Coll!
At the core of The Everyday Projects’ mission is a belief in supporting photojournalists from diverse backgrounds as they develop their craft. In an effort to help provide this vital support, The Everyday Projects is awarding grants to Mihaela Aroyo and Jaír F. Coll to help each of them work on a long-term project in their community.
In addition to receiving $6,000 each, the grantees will receive mentorship for the duration of their projects from photographer Kiana Hayeri and photo editor Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel.
We are thrilled to announce a new exhibit with FinDev Canada: Highlighting Potential: Private Sector Investment in Emerging Markets
Image by Miora Rajaonary
AUGUST 24 – SEPTEMBER 14
ESPLANADE PVM, MONTRÉAL
We know that if the world is going to make real progress on the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris commitments, the private sector has to be a major player. We also know, however, that business in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) is challenging. This is why FinDev Canada wants to bring visibility to the opportunities and potential that EMDEs bring. In so doing, we also have the opportunity to challenge traditional perceptions of these markets.
This exhibit portrays the diverse realities of Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean, our focus regions for the past five years. It also looks forward towards our expansion into the Indo-Pacific as part of Canada’s strategy for the region. To achieve this, we partnered with talented local photographers whose work offers an authentic depiction of our markets and clients.
FinDev Canada has partnered with The Everyday Projects to leverage the talent of local photographers in our selected regions to capture the photos featured in the exhibit. View the full exhibit here.
NPR: Global heat hacks, from jazzy umbrellas in DRC to ice beans in Singapore
Image by Showkat Nanda for NPR
The world is hot this year. Ridiculously hot. Fry an egg on the sidewalk hot. How are people dealing with the heat?
The Everyday Projects partnered with NPR in asking our contributors to make pictures of heat relief strategies in their countries.
Their cameras took aim at the cool floors of a mosque's entryway in Kashmir to swimming, kids splashing in a makeshift pool in a working-class Cairo neighborhood, an icy and affordable treat in Singapore and more. Here are photos of the often centuries-old ways the world is beating the heat.
The Everyday Projects is excited to announce our 2023 grant for photographers around the world to focus on a long-term project in their community.
Applications are now closed
At the core of The Everyday Projects’ mission is a belief in support of photojournalists from diverse backgrounds as they develop their craft. In an effort to help provide this vital support, The Everyday Projects will award two grants to photographers to work on a long-term project in their own community.
In addition to receiving $6,000 each, the two grantees will receive mentorship for the duration of their project from photojournalist Kiana Hayeri and National Geographic photo editor Jennifer Samuel.
We are thrilled to announce our new exhibition in Oldenburg, Germany: "The Everyday Projects: Endangered Species"
March 11-April 2, 2023
For the fourth year in a row, the World Press Photos exhibition in Oldenburg Castle will be accompanied by a special show from The Everyday Projects. This year's exhibit examines endangered species and habitats globally, with prints from six photographers from the Everyday Projects community: Celina Chien (Everyday Extinction), Garry Lotulung (Everyday South East Asia), Esther Ruth Mbabazi (Everyday Africa), Nichole Sobecki (Everyday Africa), Gena Steffens (Everyday Extinction), and Ivan Valencia (Everyday Extinction).
Photo by M'hammed Kilito for The Everyday Projects Print Sale.
The Everyday Projects Year in Review 2022
Jan. 1, 2023
2022 was a fantastic year for The Everyday Projects! We celebrated the 10th anniversary of Everyday Africa with a print sale featuring work from our contributors around the globe, we released a new curriculum, we produced another season of The Essentials, and so much more! Not to mention we grew our community of amazing photographers, who we just happen to think are the world's best!
The Everyday Projects First-ever Print Sale!
Dec. 7
It’s been 10 years since Everyday Africa began — 10 years and thousands of photographs from photographers spanning the continent, all aspiring to use images to change the way the world sees Africa, correcting the narrative and rising above harmful stereotypes.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary, we are thrilled to partner with Picto to offer a print sale of photographs made by this community as well as the African Photojournalism Database (APJD) and other Everyday feeds around the world — all of which were inspired by Everyday Africa. SEE ALL IMAGES AVAILABLE FOR SALE HERE.
The photographs will be printed on fine art 10x10” paper, priced at $100 each, plus shipping.
A lot has changed in the last 10 years, including new and evolving initiatives that are aggressively taking on injustice and misperception in the media industry. We applaud these efforts and have been a part of many of them, but we also see real value in focusing on the simple thing we’ve done well since the beginning — taking a look at everyday life and making the mundane beautiful, through photography.
Without social media, these images may never have seen the light of day. Now you can own a piece of this history, with all revenues shared between the photographers and The Everyday Projects, the nonprofit organization that helps support these photographers and seeks to do good things with their work — in classrooms, exhibition spaces, and publications around the world.
See our latest collaboration with NPR: “Precious memories: 8 refugees share the things they brought to remind them of home”
If you had to leave the country where you were born and raised, what would you bring with you as you begin a new life in a strange place?
"This passport reminds me of my past life, traveling across West Africa. There was a time I wanted to throw the passport away, but [my pastor] said I should continue keeping it," says Rebecca Maneh Nagbe, known as Mama Sckadee. After fleeing the civil war in Liberia in 2003, she came to a refugee camp in Nigeria. She has not been able to obtain legal status that would let her to leave the camp. Ọbáṣọlá Bámigbólá for NPR
Of course, there are necessities to pack. But perhaps there is something that is not essential and yet in a way is just that — something to help you remember your roots and keep a touch of home in your new dwelling place. It could be a physical object — or perhaps something intangible that you carry in your heart and soul.
At this time of unprecedented numbers of refugees — a record 27.1 million in 2021 — we wanted to know what precious possessions did refugees take with them? In collaboration with NPR, photojournalists of The Everyday Projects interviewed and photographed eight refugees from different parts of the globe. Click here to read and see their stories — and the stories of their cherished objects.
The Essentials Weekend Special now available to watch on our website!
You can now watch all sessions from The Essentials, our free online classes presented by The Everyday Projects + Black Women Photographers on our website!
Each class is 75 minutes long, including lots of time for Q&A, and is for emerging and experienced storytellers wanting to know more about navigating the photojournalism profession.
Subtitles will be coming soon, so stay tuned! Thanks again to PhotoWings for their support in helping make this happen.
Register now for Season 3 of The Essentials: Weekend Workshop!
You can now register for Season 3 of The Essentials, this year being held as a Weekend Workshop! These free online classes are presented by The Everyday Projects + Black Women Photographers, and will be hosted by Danielle Villasana and Polly Irungu.
Our line-up of teachers includes photographers Hannah Reyes Morales, Annie Flanagan, Cheriss May, M’hammed Kilito, James Rodríguez, Gabriella Angotti-Jones, Smita Sharma, and Tasneem Alsultan!
Our new curriculum is now available!
Sept. 15, 2022
We're excited to announce the launch of our new curriculum, created with our partners PhotoWings! Building on lesson plans and educational programming we've been forming with collaborators since 2013, The Everyday Projects curriculum encourages middle and high school students to learn about stereotypes, photography, representation, journalism, and truth in storytelling. Students will create their own Everyday project for their school or community, joining a global movement of photojournalists who are re-shaping the narratives of their home regions.
Save the date for The Essentials: Season 3!
Oct. 15 & 16
We’re thrilled to announce Season 3 of The Essentials: free online classes presented by The Everyday Projects + Black Women Photographers! For this year’s season, we’re holding a two-day workshop on October 15th and 16th with speakers who share their expertise on everything from pitching, getting assignments, and sustaining long-term projects to book-making, self-promotion, and side hustles. Each class is 75 minutes long, including lots of time for Q&A, and is for emerging and experienced storytellers wanting to know more about navigating the photojournalism profession. Learn more here and stay tuned for registration info!
Announcing our renewed partnership with PhotoWings!
We're excited to announce a renewed partnership with our friends at PhotoWings! Through this collaboration, we'll be piloting our new educational curriculum in classrooms and launching another season of our webinar series "The Essentials" with Black Women Photographers. More info coming soon!
Join The Everyday Projects at Photoville this June!
June 4-26
Photo by Gabriella Báez, to be shown at this year's Photoville.
The Everyday Projects is thrilled to participate in this year's Photoville, where we will highlight the winners and finalists of our 2021 grant. Photoville runs June 4-26 in Brooklyn Bridge Park and numerous other locations in New York City.
The 2021 winners were Tania Barrientos Radilla (Mexico) and Salih Basheer (Sudan), whose projects were deeply inspiring, and whose intentions echoed The Everyday Projects’ values. Zohreh Sabaghnejad (Iran) won Honorable Mention. There were nine other finalists: Gabriella Báez (Puerto Rico), Grasielle Barbaresco (Brazil), Rehab Eldalil (Egypt), Amina Kadous (Egypt), DeLovie Kwagala (South Africa), Fawaz Oyedeji (Nigeria), Fethi Sahraoui (Algeria), Farshad Usyan (Afghanistan), and Andrés Yépez (Ecuador).
We look forward to seeing you at the Photoville opening on June 4!
Check out our new curriculum!
May 15, 2022
Students in the Everyday Bronx (left photo) and Everyday Mombasa (center and right photos) educational workshops.
We're excited to announce the launch of our new curriculum, created with our partners PhotoWings! Building on lesson plans and educational programming we've been forming with collaborators since 2013, The Everyday Projects curriculum encourages middle and high school students to learn about stereotypes, photography, representation, journalism, and truth in storytelling. Students will create their own Everyday project for their school or community, joining a global movement of photojournalists who are re-shaping the narratives of their home regions.
Click here to access the Overview and Lesson 1 — and to add your name to our teachers' list, so that we can let you know when the rest of the lessons will be ready, and when we'll be offering online teacher trainings to help prepare you to use the curriculum in your classrooms this fall.
Everyday DC Student Photography Exhibition to open in May
May 19 — September 2, 2022
The sixth annual Everyday DC student photography exhibition opens on May 19. A partnership between the Pulitzer Center and DC Public Schools, this year's exhibition features images made by more than 150 students from 10 public middle schools.
The exhibition is curated by 18 students from Brookland Middle School, and will be on display through September 2, 2022 at the Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives.
Welcome Nanjala Nyabola to The Everyday Projects Board of Directors!
May 15, 2022
Nanjala is a writer and researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya.
She writes analysis and commentary for numerous publications around the world and is the author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya (Zed Books, 2018), Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move (Hurst Books, 2020) and Strange and Difficult Times: Notes on a Global Pandemic (Hurst, forthcoming).
We're thrilled to have her on The Everyday Projects Board of Directors!
The Essentials Seasons 1 & 2 are Now Available in French and Spanish!
May 15, 2022
The Essentials, a series of online classes for photographers presented by The Everyday Projects + Black Women Photographers, is available with subtitles in Spanish and French!
These free workshops are for anyone who would like to learn more about the ins and outs of professional photojournalism.
The Everyday Projects Exhibition at the World Press Photo Exhibit at Oldenburg, Germany
Photo by Tania Barrientos
Feb. 19 - March 13, 2022
For the third year in a row, World Press Photo is hosting an exhibition of work by Everyday Projects’ photographers. This year, the exhibition showcases 50 photos by 12 photographers who had applied for the "Everyday Projects Grant", a one-year photography grant. Salih Basheer from Sudan and Tania Barrientos from Mexico received awards in the current round. Ten other participants, including from Afghanistan, Ecuador and Nigeria, reached the final round.
"The Everyday Projects Grant" is a special show as part of the World Press Photo Exhibition in Oldenburg. There is no additional entry fee.
2021 Year in Review for The Everyday Projects
December 23, 2021
Photo by Rehab Eldalil, one of the 10 finalists of The Everyday Projects Grant 2021.
2021 was an incredible year for The Everyday Projects! We launched a new podcast, held a series of online classes, launched our first grant, and continued our work with the world's most prominent publications – not to mention the world's best photographers! Read more here!
View “Women on the Move” at the Head On Photo Festival!
November 20-28
See our “Women on the Move” project displayed at the Head On Photo Festival at the Paddington Reservoir Gardens in Paddington, Australia. Our worldwide project, which was published in National Geographic, looks at the impact of migration on women worldwide, from Yemen and Honduras to Singapore and South Africa.
Spanning nearly 15 countries around the globe, eight Everyday Projects photographers show the massive scope of our world's most pressing issues today are pushing and pulling women from their homes. Learn more about the exhibit here.
“The New Faces Of Pandemic Food Insecurity: Hungry, Worried ... Yet Generous” in NPR
September 28, 2021
Barreto, left, dances with her granddaughter in the kitchen. She lives with her son, daughter-in-law and their two kids. Even though the family is having a tough time, Barreto says she tries to look for ways to be happy. "When I cook cachapas, I turn on my Venezuelan music and start cooking, dancing and remembering my country." Yolanda Escobar Jimenez for NPR
The Everyday Projects teamed up with NPR to examine an emerging group who could once provide regular meals for themselves and their families but are now struggling because of the pandemic.
They're not on the verge of starvation as so many millions are, but they're suffering from what's called "food insecurity" in moderate to severe degrees, unable to afford a balanced and nutritious diet because of income loss and rising prices.
Who are these newcomers to food insecurity? Here are profiles from around the world. The Everyday Projects contributors asked interviewees about the jobs they've lost, the family members they are trying to feed — and the favorite foods that are now out of reach.
Register now for Season 2 of The Essentials, a series of online classes for photographers presented by The Everyday Projects + Black Women Photographers!
September 22, 2021
The Essentials: Season 2 will begin the first week of October! These weekly workshops are free and presented by The Everyday Projects and Black Women Photographers. The classes are for emerging and experienced editorial photographers who would like to learn more about the ins and outs of professional photojournalism. Each class will be 75 minutes and will include a Q&A. The classes will be recorded, and the videos will be posted to our website at a later date.
Learn more about each session below, register through the Zoom links, or click here to see the full program! At that link, you can also watch all of the class videos from Season 1!
October 6: “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". REGISTER FOR YAGAZIE'S CLASS HERE!
October 13: “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. REGISTER FOR ALI AND TARA'S CLASS HERE! And take this survey once you register so that the class is as beneficial as possible!
October 27: “Demystifying Digital Security: Practical Guidance for Journalists” with Ela Stapley
From surveillance to identity theft, journalists face a range of digital security threats as they go about their work. Knowing what steps to take to better protect themselves and their sources is more and more important. From secure communications to protecting online data, this session will teach journalists practical tips that they can use to increase their security. If you have doubts about WhatsApp security or have ever wondered if it is safe to store your passwords in your browser, then this session is for you! REGISTER FOR ELA'S CLASS HERE! And take this survey once you register so that the class is as beneficial as possible!
October 27: “Building Your Career” with Sarahbeth Maney and Sarah Waiswa
Careers in photography have no roadmap, and a common question is, how do I get started? How do I make my first contacts in the industry, get my first assignment, work on my first projects? Photographers Sarahbeth Maney and Sarah Waiswa will use their own passion projects and reporting projects to walk you through the start of their careers and highlight some of their most important learnings along the way. Coming from different points of their career and different backgrounds, Sarabeth and Sarah will showcase what they were able to do with limited support and discuss what it was truly like to get their careers off the ground. REGISTER FOR SARAHBETH AND SARAH'S CLASS HERE!
November 3: “So You Got An Assignment – Now What? Working with Photo Editors” with Jehan Jillani and Olivier Laurent
When on an assignment, knowing what an editor expects of you can be challenging, especially early on in your career. Photo editors Olivier Laurent (The Washington Post) and Jehan Jillani (The Atlantic) will take a practical approach to explaining the barebones of how to make photojournalism a sustainable career, and will delve into strategies on how to work with photo editors, how to make sure your voice is heard, and how to turn in photos with the proper information. REGISTER FOR JEHAN AND OLIVIER'S CLASS HERE!
Announcing Repicture, a podcast by The Everyday Projects
September 22, 2021
We're excited to announce the launch of our new podcast, Repicture! Check out the trailer above for a teaser, and our first episode is now available wherever you listen to your podcasts! Repicture features candid conversations with photographers, academics, reporters, and editors on the ethics and practice of visual storytelling. Co-hosts Nyasha Kadandara and Tasneem Alsultan take on the topics of representation, mental health, sexual harassment, accountability, making mistakes, and self reflection. We aim to bring what are often private conversations into the public arena.
In the first episode, "Duty, burden, privilege: Seeking the truth and who gets to tell it", Nyasha and Tasneem ask four photographers how they strive to accurately represent and document their own communities, which are often misrepresented in the media. Do they see their work as a duty, burden, privilege, or something else entirely?
Find Repicture now wherever you listen to your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts, and please subscribe, rate, and review!
“Women on the Move” Photographers Discuss National Geographic Project at Photoville
Photo by Saiyna Bashir
September 25, 10am
Eight women photographers from The Everyday Projects discuss their group project published in National Geographic about the impact of migration on women worldwide, touching on themes such as working in collaboration, photographing your own community, and uncovering the nuance of issues often stereotyped in the media.
With National Geographic photo editor Jennifer Samuel as moderator, eight women photographers from The Everyday Projects discuss their group project published in National Geographic Magazine about the impact of migration on women worldwide. In a dynamic discussion, Amrita Chandradas, Danielle Villasana, Ksenia Kuleshova, Miora Rajaonary, Mridula Amin, Nichole Sobecki, Saiyna Bashir, and Thana Faroq touch on themes such as working in collaboration, photographing your own community, and uncovering the nuance of issues often stereotyped in the media. From Singapore and Honduras to South Africa and Yemen, our stories spanning nearly 15 communities around the globe show the massive scope of how social, economic, political, and climate issues among many others are pushing and pulling women from their homes. Read the full feature here.
“Women on the Move” to be exhibited at Photoville!
September 18 - December 1, 2021
Photograph by Nichole Sobecki
Come see our “Women on the Move” exhibition at this year’s Photoville, opening on September 18 and available to see until December 1, 2021. A team of eight women photographers from The Everyday Projects highlights how modern migration is impacting women worldwide in a project published this year in National Geographic Magazine. While the United Nations estimates more than one billion people today are migrating across international borders, women in particular are disproportionately affected by the major issues facing our world and are on the go more than ever.
From Singapore and Honduras to South Africa and Yemen, these stories spanning nearly 15 communities around the globe show the massive scope of how social, economic, political, and climate issues (among many others) are pushing and pulling women from their homes.
According to UN Women, many of women’s specific needs as migrants and refugees aren’t being properly met by policy makers. This is alarming considering about half the world’s refugees are women and girls, women in displaced situations outnumber men, and their hardships often worsen over time.
At a time when immigration policies worldwide are becoming more stringent and borders are closing, this project shows a comprehensive view of how women are caught in the web of migration—and how many are resilient despite these circumstances, which are out of their control.
With support from National Geographic Society, “Women on the Move” was published in National Geographic’s 2021 February print issue and online, written by journalist Aurora Almendral. The Pulitzer Center created curricular resources as a companion guide to this project.
Announcing our 2021 grant winners and finalists!
Wednesday, August 25
This year's winners: Tania Barrientos Radilla (left) and Salih Basheer
At the core of The Everyday Projects’ mission is a belief in support of photojournalists from diverse backgrounds as they develop their craft. In a new effort to help provide this vital support, The Everyday Projects is awarding two grants to photographers to work on a long-term project in their community. In addition to receiving $6,000 each, these two grantees will receive one year of mentorship as they continue their proposed project. Many thanks to our program mentors, Mallory Benedict, Photo Editor at National Geographic, and Jehan Jillani, Visuals Editor at The Atlantic.
More than 450 photographers applied from all over the world, and we were so impressed by their work and their dedication to projects that uplift and highlight their communities. This year’s winners are Tania Barrientos Radilla and Salih Basheer, whose projects were deeply inspiring, and whose intentions spoke to The Everyday Projects values. In addition, we’re announcing one Honorable Mention and nine other Finalists – see the full list here! Thank you to all of the applicants and thank you to our jury for their time and support.
More Than a Number Exhibition Launch and Symposium
Wednesday, July 14
Wacera Njagi, Everyday Africa Coordinator, will be talking with Sisipho Ngodwana, curator and associate director at STEVENSON Gallery; Stella Nantongo, program coordinator at Uganda Press Photo Award and FOTEA; and Fatoumata Diabaté, Malian photographer, at the More Than a Number Exhibition Launch and Symposium on Wednesday, July 14.
Announcing The Everyday Projects Grant
May 3, 2021
At the core of The Everyday Projects’ mission is a belief in support of photojournalists from diverse backgrounds as they develop their craft.
In a new effort to help provide this vital support, The Everyday Projects will award two grants to photographers to work on a long-term project.
In addition to receiving $6,000 each, the two grantees will receive mentorship for the duration of their project from either Mallory Benedict of National Geographic or Jehan Jillani of The Guardian.
Please join us for The Essentials, a series of online classes for photographers presented by The Everyday Projects + Black Women Photographers!
Course instructors Kiana Hayeri, Andrea Wise, Nicky Quamina-Woo, Danielle Villasana, Yagazie Emezi.
April 28, 2021
These weekly workshops are for emerging and experienced editorial photographers who would like to learn more about the ins and outs of professional photojournalism. Each class will be 75 minutes and will include a Q&A. The classes will be recorded, and the videos will be posted to our website at a later date.
Learn more about each session below and see the full program here!
May 5: 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, touching on how to pitch a story to an editor and how to break down a story while photographing on assignment. Register for Kiana's class here!
May 12: Anatomy of a Story with Andrea Wise
In this session, Andrea Wise will deconstruct a couple of published stories to demystify how stories come to be from the editor’s perspective. She will talk about story origination, including assignment work and stories pitched by photographers, getting ideas and budgets approved, creative planning/art direction, working visually in harmony with text, selecting and sequencing images, and laying out stories for publication. You will learn more about what visual editors do, how to get on their radar, how best to work with them on assignment, and how to maximize the chances of getting your pitches picked up. Register for Andrea's class here!
May 19: 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 will review the portfolio of 1-3 students for the class to learn from, as well as show examples of successful images, investigating why each works (or doesn’t) from a lighting perspective. Register for Nicky's class here!
May 27: Finding Support for Your Projects – Grant Writing and More 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. Providing examples such as The Everyday Projects’ "Women on the Move" story she led alongside seven other Everyday women photographers, which was published in National Geographic with support from National Geographic Society, Danielle will also discuss the benefits of applying to grants as a team. While grant-funding is the primary topic, Danielle will briefly introduce other ideas for funding such as Kickstarter, print sales, and approaching NGOs and companies with well-crafted project proposals. Register for Danielle's class here!
June 2: Be Your Own Manager – Finances and Self-Promotion 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. Register for Yagazie's class here!
TALK TALK TALK – African Photography Conversations
Tuesday, April 20
TALK TALK TALK is a series of presentations and discussions around photography in African contexts with the aim of networking the different initiatives and photographers on the continent and beyond. The format was first introduced by APS members FOTEA and CAP Association at the 2019 Bamako Encounters in Mali. All episodes are available at www.talktalktalk.photo.
Date and time: 20 April 2021 / 5pm EAT
Guests:
Abdo Shanan, photographer, Algeria
Wacera Njagi, journalist, Kenya
Host: Ala Kheir, photographer, Sudan
Location: Streamed live on APS, Everyday Africa and CAP Prize facebook pages
Four to Follow #16: Photo Stories by African Photojournalists
View of unidentified passengers as they sit in a tram carriage, Alexandria, Egypt, 29 March 2019. © Fatma Fahmy, Egypt
April 13, 2021
Sharing stories from across the African continent by the talented members of the African Photojournalism Database (APJD).
In this sixteenth edition of Four To Follow, Fatma Fahmy, Amanuel Sileshi, Esther N’sapu, and Amru Salahuddien unveil unique and intimate stories from Egypt, Ethiopia, the Republic of Congo and Libya. Through their inquisitive and keen eyes, you’ll learn about the time-travelling trams of Alexandria, vaccination roll-out in Ethiopia, the essential waterways of Lake Kivu, and the teen soldiers from Libya.
More News About Our "Women and Migration" Story Published in National Geographic
April 2, 2021
Constance Ncube, 54, works as a live-in housekeeper in a Johannesburg neighborhood. She migrated to South Africa from Zimbabwe in 1997 and uses the money she makes to support her family back home. She’s also building a house for her daughter and grandchildren in Zimbabwe, where she plans to retire. Zimbabwe is the largest source country for immigrants to South Africa. Image by Miora Rajaonary.
On April 13-14, join National Geographic photo editor Jennifer Samuel and Danielle Villasana, Miora Rajaonary, and Saiyna Bashir for Nat Geo Live's "Women and Migration" online event. Click here to learn more and buy tickets!
Nichole Sobecki will speak at the 2021 Pulitzer Center's "Environment (Re)Defined" Conference. Learn more and register for events here!
An image from Danielle Villasana's story on Honduran migrants was featured in this National Geographic article highlighting the one-year anniversary mark of the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you missed the Pulitzer Center's webinars about "Women on the Move," check them out here:
Amrita Chandradas and Danielle Villasana speak at San Diego State University's School of Journalism and Media Studies about their projects on women migrants from Vietnam to Singapore and Central America to Mexico.
Danielle Villasana spoke with Kataleya Nativi Baca, one of the featured women in the project, and Hannah Berk of the Pulitzer Center in this webinar.
We wanted to give a shout out to the amazing educational initiatives our team is accomplishing with the Pulitzer Center: Amrita Chandradas spoke to 15 teachers from Chicago public schools; Danielle Villasana spoke with teachers at Hemispheres: The International Outreach Consortium at University of Texas-Austin; Ksenia Kuleshova spoke with students at Banneker High School; and, Thana Faroq spoke with nearly 60 students at Manhattan International High School!
Everyday Africa Exhibit Now Open at Oldenburg Castle, Germany
March 20, 2021 — April 11, 2021
Alongside the World Press Photo Exhibition 2020, Everyday Africa has curated a selection of images for the second year in a row from contributing photographers and members of the African Photojournalism Database (APJD) that is now on display at the Oldenburg Castle in Germany.
Photo by Abdurrauf Ben Madi/Libya
Curated by Wacera Njagi, the selection brings together the photographic work of 26 African image-makers through documentary photography, pursuing the theme of social protest at home.
The 26 photojournalists participating in this exhibition are: Abdul-Haqq Mahama, Nada Harib, De Lovie Kwagala, Nicholas Seun Adatsi, Gulshan Khan, Roger Anis, Victoire Douniama, Gordwin Obiero, Miora Rajaonary, Nader Adem, Salih Basheer, Esther Mbabazi, Abdurrauf Ben Madi, Thoko Chikondi, Adrien Bitibaly, Esther N’sapu, Mustafa Saeed, Ngadi Smart, Anouar Labidi, Peter Irungu, Zinyange Auntony, Barry Christianson, M’hammed Kilito, Idhir Baha, and Ofoe Amegavie. The exhibition was curated by Wacera Njagi from Everyday Africa.
Offering reimagined visual narratives from across the continent, this collection of photo stories showcases the work of visual storytellers selected from 16 African countries. The photographers featured in this exhibition resist cultural convention and put forward new and diverse visions of how documentary photography can be a tool to record daily protest. These image-makers use their voices carefully and responsibly to honor people and their experiences, preserve culture, and activate and liberate their communities.
“How 9 Health Workers Stay Strong In A Pandemic Year” in NPR
March 11, 2021
Photo by Showkat Nanda.
To be a health care worker in the best of times includes days of stress, sorrow, frustration, triumph, joy and reflection — not always in that order. This past year was all of that on warp speed, as the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020.
To mark the one year anniversary of that declaration, The Everyday Projects contributors partnered with NPR and photographed and interviewed nine healthcare workers from around the globe, serving very different communities but all with the same goal: conquering COVID-19. We especially wanted to know: What has surprised them most over the past year? And how have they managed to cope with all the stress?
National Geographic Shares “Women on the Move” Story on International Women’s Day
March 8, 2021
On International Women’s Day, National Geographic shared the story of Kataleya Nativi Baca, a transgender woman from Honduras who was just weeks away from presenting her asylum case to the U.S. when Covid-19 struck. As a transgender woman, Kataleya endured years of violent discrimination in her hometown of San Pedro Sula, Honduras. After her brother beat her, fracturing her collarbone and threatened to kill her, she decided to leave. Kataleya waited four months in southern Mexico before before setting off for the U.S. border.
You can watch the full Instagram story here and click here to see Kataleya’s full story, reported by Danielle Villasana as part of our “Women on the Move” collaboration with National Geographic.
#ICYMI: 'Women on the Move': A Conversation With Danielle Villasana and Amrita Chandradas
Friday, March 5, 2021
San Diego State University's School of Journalism and Media Studies and the Pulitzer Center hosted a public webinar featuring Everyday Projects photographers Danielle Villasana and Amrita Chandradas. The event was the third in the "Stories of Migration and Immigration" series. The educational initiatives of Women on the Move were generously supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Join us for three exciting events centered around "Women on the Move":
Public webinar with Everyday Projects photographers Danielle Villasana and Amrita Chandradas, Friday, March 5, 2021 @ 12pm PT
This webinar is the third in the "Stories of Migration and Immigration" series, a collaboration between San Diego State University's School of Journalism and Media Studies and the Pulitzer Center. The educational initiatives of Women on the Move were generously supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Public webinar with Women on the Move contributor and photojournalist Danielle Villasana, March 6, 2021 @ 10:30am CT
Hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, this webinar is open to the public but focused on educators. Villasana will describe her process reporting on the story of one transgender woman's journey from Honduras to Mexico, review the process of developing "Women on the Move" with the support of seven other photojournalists, and engage in a Q&A with participants.
Fourth annual Abu Dhabi Culture Summit, March 9, 2021 @ 1:30pm CET
Danielle Villasana, Women on the Move photographer, Wale Oyejide, designer and filmmaker, and Tomas Ayuso, photographer and writer will be on the panel session: How does mass migration impact the cultural economy?
The Everyday Projects at Cairo Photo Week
March 11—20, 2021
The Everyday Projects: New Stories and Horizons Photo Exhibition will be on display at Cairo Photo Week March 11-20. The exhibition is curated by Peter DiCampo & Wacera Njagi and showcases stories from 25 photographers contributing to from Everyday Egypt, Everyday Africa, and Everyday Middle East:
Ali Zaraay, Amina Kadous, Asmaa Gamal, Barry Christianson, Esther Mbabazi, Fethi Sahraoui, Forough Alaei, Gulshan Khan, Hana Gamal, Laura El-Tantawy, Ley Uwera, Mahmoud Khattab, Maheder Tadese, Miora Rajaonary, Mohamed Mahdy, M’hammed Kilito, Mustafa Saeed, Nadia Mounier, Natalie Naccache, Rehab Eldalil, Roger Anis, Samar Hazboun, Tasneem Alsultan, Yagazie Emezi, and Yoriyas Ismaili.
On March 16 at 5pm Cairo local time, join Miora Rajaonary, Peter DiCampo, Roger Anis, and Tasneem Alsultan for an online panel discussing The Everyday Projects' impact on visual storytelling. Full details on the 2021 edition of Cairo Photo Week here.
“Women on the Move” Featured in National Geographic Editions Worldwide
February 2021
Congratulations to Mridula Amin for her cover of National Geographic Indonesia and to to Danielle Villasana for her feature in National Geographic France for the series "Le Making Of."
“Women on the Move” in National Geographic
January 14, 2021
Every year millions of women flee their homes in search of a better life. The pressures to migrate vary from violence to oppression, drought to poverty, and although Covid-19 has slowed migration patterns, all of these issues have persisted throughout the crisis. These women are driven by a hope for change, but their journeys range from joyous to tragic.
For National Geographic's February issue, eight members of The Everyday Projects — Amrita Chandradas, Danielle Villasana, Ksenia Kuleshova, Miora Rajaonary, Mridula Amin, Nichole Sobecki, Saiyna Bashir, and Thana Faroq — photographed some of these journeys, highlighting the impact of migration on women worldwide.
The digital edition of National Geographic published today, and the print version will be available soon — make sure to check your neighborhood newsstands for the February issue! For educational materials, see the curricula created by The Pulitzer Center here.
This expansive project was made possible in part through a grant from National Geographic Society, and was led by photographer Danielle Villasana, a member of The Everyday Projects' Community Team. Special thanks to photo editors Jennifer Samuel and Mallory Benedict for their work on the piece, and to Aurora Almendral for writing the story.
2020 Year in Review
December 22, 2020
We're proud to have supported our community throughout a tumultuous year. We worked to find opportunities for this global cohort of storytellers, to keep them safe and informed as they worked through a pandemic, and to push for the hiring of local photojournalists documenting their own countries and regions. Thanks to all of our collaborators, partners, and supporters, and above all, thanks to the hundreds of photographers around the world with whom we have the privilege of working. Check out our Year in Review.
Photo: Nana Kofi Acquah
Building New Platforms for New Voices panel
Online panel Friday, December 11, 11am CET / 1pm EAT.
Wacera Njagi, Everyday Africa Coordinator, will be on the World Press Photo online panel Building New Platforms for New Voices as part of their Pan-African Photojournalism and Its Positions series. Wacera joins KC Nwakalor of No Wahala! Magazine, independent photographer Etinosa Yvonne, and Juliette Garms, Programs and Outreach Manager at World Press Photo.
Photo: Nana Kofi Acquah
Everyday Oaxaca launches
December 9, 2020
We are excited to welcome a new Everyday account to The Everyday Projects family: Everyday Oaxaca! You can find the feed on our homepage and follow along at @everyday.oaxaca.
Photo: @giviphoto
The Everyday Projects at PhotoNOLA
Online panel 12:30 pm (CST) on December 9
The Everyday Projects co-founder Peter DiCampo and photographers Tasneem Alsultan (Everyday Middle East), Nicole Craine (Everyday Rural America), and Kay Hickman (Everyday Black America) will have a conversation about the importance of storytelling and the transformative role of social media in the industry as part of PhotoNola. The conversation will be moderated by Allison K. Young, Assistant Professor of Art History at Louisiana State University.
Everyday Germany launches; Everyday Southeast Asia relaunches
November 12, 2020
We’re excited to welcome Everyday Germany to the family of global Everyday projects, and to announce that Everyday Southeast Asia has relaunched with a cohort of local photographers telling stories of the region.
Photo: Hkun Lat
An interview with The Everyday Projects cofounder Peter DiCampo in The Independent Photographer
October 23, 2020
“…it began as a critique of our own practice; when foreign journalists arrive in a place looking for a story, what do they leave out? How do they portray a place when they have a preconceived narrative, and how might they portray a place when they free themselves of that narrative?” – Peter DiCampo
Read the full interview in The Independent Photographer
Photo: Payam Hamzei
“How The World Is Reinventing Rituals” in NPR
September 19, 2020
Rituals are a part of human life. They give us comfort and help us mark major events in our life-cycle, from births and graduations to marriages and death. And they are also a part of our regular routines — even something as ordinary as going for a haircut or movie night.
But the rituals we used to take for granted every day have been dramatically upended by the pandemic. The photographers of The Everyday Projects worked with NPR to document how people are reinventing rituals in the age of COVID-19.
Photo: Saul Martinez
“Then & Now” in HuffPost and at Photoville
September 2020
For nearly a decade, The Everyday Projects has featured the work of photographers documenting life in their home countries, creating a global archive of photographs teeming with life and emotion. This year–amidst the compounded pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism, amidst global social upheaval–13 photographers returned to places and moments they have photographed before, to make new images and record the visual impact of 2020.
Check out the new publication in HuffPost
View the Augmented Reality experience on your mobile - Hear from five of the photographers and view their work in your own space – created by the team at RYOT Studio
Visit the outdoor exhibition at Photoville in Brooklyn now through November
Photoville Online Session – Saturday, September 20, 2020 at 11am ET
Then & Now: Join The Everyday Projects and HuffPost for a panel discussion with photographers Sheila Pree Bright (Atlanta, U.S.A.), Yolanda Escobar Jiménez (Quito, Ecuador), Brian Otieno (Nairobi, Kenya), and Xiaojie Ouyang (Wuhan, China), as they discuss what it was like to return to places they had photographed before and make new photographs. The panel will be held virtually on Saturday, September 20, 2020 at 11am ET. Register here.
Photos: Yolanda Escobar Jiménez
Everyday USA relaunches
August 31, 2020
Announcing the relaunch of Everyday USA, a platform that aims to reflect the diversity and complexity of the USA. We're excited to build on a multitude of voices and perspectives from US-based photographers. Each week, a different photographer will take over the account and then choose the next photographer to curate.
Photo: Arlene Mejorado
Announcing selected artists: Artists against an #Infodemic
August 5, 2020
In partnership with Catchlight, Dysturb, memetic distribution expert Pamela Chen, and Dr. Jenell Stewart, DO, MPH, an Infectious Diseases specialist, we present Artists Against an #Infodemic, a collaborative visual initiative to fight misinformation about COVID-19, made possible thanks to the support from the JSK Journalism Fellowships program at Stanford University and a partnership with Photowings.
The project’s goal is to fight misinformation about COVID-19 and racism in places where those information challenges are most prominent. Launching in Nairobi, Paris, New York City, San Francisco, Livingston, California, Seattle, and Yakima County in Washington State, the project includes public art activations, including large-scale paste-ups, murals, and poster flyers distributed in key locations, as well as a digital health campaign.
Photo: Ashley Gilbertson
“Babies Of The Pandemic Bring Love, Light — And Worries” in NPR
July 18, 2020
What is it like to give birth during a global pandemic? What hopes and dreams — and fears — do the parents have when welcoming a newborn? NPR asked the photographers who work with The Everyday Projects to document the arrival of a baby born in 2020.
Photo: Sarah Waiswa / Everyday Africa
Announcing the Photo Bill of Rights
June 22, 2020
The Everyday Projects is one of eight grassroots photography organizations addressing pervasive issues within the visual media industry. From health, safety, and finance to access, bias, and ethics, the Photo Bill of Rights provides pathways for building a more inclusive, equitable industry for all.
We have come together in the midst of COVID-19, alongside the movement to fight police brutality and systemic racism, to assert the rights of all lens-based workers and define actions that build a safer, healthier, more inclusive, and transparent visual media industry.
“How Lockdown Has Changed My Life” in NPR
June 14, 2020
Photographers from The Everyday Projects global community responded to this prompt from NPR, “How has the novel coronavirus changed your life? Show us in a picture.” The images they submitted to NPR are a visual testament to the unforeseeable changes that came in 2020 as this virus swept the globe, triggering a pandemic that has altered the way we all live.
Photo: Ricci Shryock / Everyday Africa
Webinar: Advice from Funders on Reporting Grants for Photojournalists
April 23, 2020
The Everyday Projects webinar on how to apply for grants and fellowships with the Pulitzer Center, National Geographic Society, and the International Women’s Media Foundation. In this webinar, you will learn the details of each organization’s grants programs for visual journalists, see some of their most successful projects, and find out what it takes to put together a successful grant application.
Panelists:
Jin Ding, Program Manager, International Women’s Media Foundation
Marina Walker Guevara, Executive Editor, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Dustin Renwick, Senior Program Officer, National Geographic Society
Moderator:
Danielle Villasana, Independent Photojournalist and Community Team member of The Everyday Projects
Webinar: COVID-19 Safety Training for Visual Journalists
April 16, 2020
We are regularly updating our COVID-19 Guide for Visual Journalists with new information to help keep journalists safe during this pandemic. These general tips for visual journalists were created by Jenell Stewart, DO, MPH, Infectious Diseases physician-scientist at University of Washington. Dr. Stewart created this guide to help journalists who are struggling with ethical and safety considerations in the current void of job specific information.
Dr. Stewart also held an online training and Q&A session for journalists working in the field. She provides a basic overview on COVID-19 transmission and safety tips. Co-hosted by CatchLight and Institute for Nonprofit News
“The Baggage that Lives with You Forever” in Re-Picture
April 1, 2020
One disparity this pandemic has illuminated is how communities around the world are visually portrayed by mainstream media during times of crisis.
"After Ebola is over, after the civil war is over, the world moves on. But the African never really gets to move on because you show up and people think you are less qualified. They think you are less intelligent. They think you are less able. They think you are a dimwit. The baggage of all these perceptions comes from how Africa has been consistently been photographed and portrayed in Western media. This is what we are fighting against.” – Nana Kofi Acquah
Photo: Nana Kofi Acquah / Everyday Africa