The Everyday Projects 2025 Year in Review
2025 was a great year for The Everyday Projects. We produced our sixth season of The Essentials, our fifth exhibition at World Press Photo in Oldenburg, Germany, and partnered with NPR on five published photo stories. On top of that, we grew our community of phenomenal photographers, who continue to create images that challenge stereotypes all over the world!
Photo by Forough Alaei, one of the photographers featured in our fifth exhibit at World Press Photo Oldenburg.
We partnered with Black Women Photographers and PhotoWings for Season 6 of The Essentials
This year’s teachers and hosts of The Essentials. Top row from left: Alicia Vera, Angela Ogunfojuri, Hallease Narvaez, Nada Harib, Taiwo Aina, Raquel Natalicchio, Sarah Perlmutter, Raquel Natalicchio, and hosts, Polly Irungu and Danielle Villasana.
For season six of The Essentials, our free online photography classes, we brought together experts from around the world to teach emerging and experienced storytellers about the ins and outs of our industry. Hundreds of people joined us to learn about covering news topics through a sensitive lens, navigating the ups and downs of self-marketing, breaking into commercial work, making your pitch break through the noise, editing like a pro, and more. We were honored this year to have a stacked teacher line-up, including Alicia Vera, Angela Ogunfojuri, Hallease Narvaez, Nada Harib, Taiwo Aina, Sarah Perlmutter, and Raquel Natalicchio. The classes were hosted by Polly Irungu and Danielle Villasana.
A huge thank you to our partners Black Women Photographers and PhotoWings for another successful season! You can now watch all classes from all seasons on our website. (Subtitles for season six in French and Spanish coming soon!)
Human kindness can extend to all creatures. In this photo, a girl cradles a stray kitten that lives outside her home in Bangkok, Thailand. The photographer says: "I chose this image because it's a simple act of kindness toward a stray kitten. Even though this area is labeled a "slum," many of its residents choose to take extremely good care of the animals that live around them. How people choose to treat stray animals says a lot about who they are." Photo by Andre Malerba/The Everyday Projects for NPR.
Clockwise from top left: Angela Farre Palacin holds a basket of eggs. Every dish of sopa de farigola — thyme soup — contains one egg per person. Thyme and olive oil and a loaf of bread are main ingredients in the soup. Matilde Gattoni/The Everyday Projects for NPR
This photo was taken in a café in the neighborhood of Obour City, which is part of Greater Cairo, Egypt. The photographer says the sign serves as a reminder that everyone needs easy access to a toilet. Aly Hazzaa/The Everyday Projects for NPR
The boy and bird are, of course, not really flying together. But ... they are both airborne. The child is jumping into the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok, Thailand, during a heatwave in February 2024. Photographer Andre Malerba notes: "This image recalls the free feeling of leaping from several times one's height into water to escape the heat as friends laugh and cheer you on. A time many of us might remember as when we felt truly whole and at peace, even if life wasn't perfect. It's always worth realizing that this version of ourselves still exists somewhere inside and to let that lend us a sense of well-being that can never be taken away." Andre Malerba / The Everyday Projects for NPR.
Another exhibition with World Press Photo in Oldenburg, Germany
For the fifth year in a row, The Everyday Projects worked with World Press Photo to create a special show in Oldenburg Castle. The exhibit showcased photos about how sports, games, and sporting events found in everyday life around the world bring people together.
Our photographers highlighted women boxers in Iran, adaptive veteran sports in Ukraine, the World Cup in Saudi Arabia, International Dance Day in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and more. Photographers this year included Jaír F. Coll (@jaircoll); Arlette Bashizi (@arty_bashizi); Serhii Korovayny (@serhiikorovayny); Tasneem Alsultan (@tasneemalsultan); Barry Christianson (@thesestreetsza); Forough Alaei (@foroughalaei); and Annice Lyn (@annicelyn).
Ukrainian Invictus team practicing before the volleyball game Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 25, 2024. Photo by Serhii Korovayny
Saudi Arabia celebrates an unforgettable moment of triumph on the third day of the FIFA World Cup 2022, hosted in Qatar. With a historic 2-1 victory against Argentina, one of the tournament favorites and led by the legendary Lionel Messi, Saudi fans erupted in joy across the nation. Photo by Tasneem Alsultan.
Help our community continue to grow
Our global movement continues to grow, and this year photographers in our community worked with some of the world’s most prominent media outlets, exhibited their work widely, won major awards, and so much more. Most importantly, our community of more than 400 journalists continued to work to change the way we tell stories, combating harmful misperceptions and rising above persistent inequality.
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Thanks to our friends at PhotoWings, with whom we have produced "The Essentials," in collaboration with Black Women Photographers, and our educational curriculum.
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