UPCOMING webinars
For photographers and visual journalists across the globe
The Everyday Projects is proud to partner with Black Women Photographers to host a Webinar Series focused on the essentials of photojournalism!
These workshops are aimed towards experienced and emerging editorial photographers who would like to learn more about the ins-and-outs of professional photojournalism.
Schedule
Class 1 – Wednesday, May 5 – Kiana Hayeri
Title: “Building a Narrative”
Description: 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.
Class 2 – Wednesday, May 12 – Andrea Wise
Title: “Anatomy of a Story”
Description: 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.
Class 3 – Wednesday, May 19 – Nicky Woo
Title: “Marketing Your Skills”
Description: Nicky Woo has a successful 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.
Class 4 – Wednesday, May 26 – Danielle Villasana
Title: “Grant Writing”
Description: Danielle will teach how to conceptualize a project and craft a successful grant proposal. [As an example, she will use The Everyday Projects “Women on the Move” project – eight women photographing stories of migration’s impact on women worldwide, published in National Geographic in February 2021. She will teach how to X Y Z …]
Class 5 – Wednesday, June 2 – Yagazie Emezi
Title: “How to negotiate and promote for yourself”
–some combination of negotiation, marketing, self-promotion
Teachers
Kiana Hayeri is an Iranian-Canadian photographer based in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is a Senior TED fellow and a regular contributor to The New York Times. In 2020, she received the Tim Hetherington Visionary award and was named as the 6th recipient of James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting. You can follow her at @kianahayeri.
Andrea Wise is co-founder of Diversify Photo and a visuals editor at ProPublica where she ideates and commissions photography, illustration, and other forms of visual journalism. She was previously a contract photo editor on the history & culture desk at National Geographic. She has also worked with Newsweek, BuzzFeed News, The Intercept, Open Society Foundations, among others. Her work has been recognized by The Telly Awards, The National Press Photographers Association, College Photographer of the Year, and The Student Academy Awards. Andrea earned her M.S. in Photography from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and her B.A. with Honors in Studio Arts from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and is an alum of the Eddie Adams, Kalish, and Mountain Workshops. You can follow her @andreawise_.
Nicky Quamina-Woo is a Black + Native Hawaiian photographer who divides her time between the African continent, South East Asia, and New York City. Her fascination with the tenacity of the human spirit deeply influences her approach to image-making, working on documentary imagery that explores human rights issues, health, and breaking news. Initially a commercial photographer, she became an art direction with brands such as Ralph Lauren, Ann Taylor and Target, before getting back behind the lens with a shift to journalism. Nicky is also a university professor at Parson’s School of Design in NYC, where she teaches lighting when not reporting internationally. Nicky is the recipient of the Nikon-Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage grant in 2020 as well as an awardee of the Reuters Storytelling grant in 2018. Her clients include CNN, The Washington Post, Human Rights Watch, BuzzFeed, Apple, Reporters Beyond Borders, Reuters, The Guardian, and Vogue Italia magazine.
Danielle Villasana is a photojournalist based in Istanbul whose documentary work focuses on human rights, gender, displacement, and health around the world. She’s a National Geographic Explorer, Magnum Foundation awardee, and an International Women's Media Foundation fellow. Danielle strongly believes in pairing photography with education and community. She’s co-founder of We, Women, an Authority Collective board member, on The Everyday Projects’ Community Team, and a Photo Bill of Rights co-author. She’s also a member of Women Photograph and Ayün Fotógrafas. Ultimately, Danielle works by the words of Donna De Cesare: “You are a human being first and a journalist second.” You can follow her at @davillasana.
Yagazie Emezi is a Nigerian artist and self-taught photojournalist focused on stories surrounding African women and their health, sexuality, education and human rights. Having worked extensively across Africa, Yagazie also covers stories on identity and culture, social justice, climate change and migration. Her art practice uses photography and sculpture to construct visual critiques of Nigeria's socio-political state and the roles media play in it, pulling from history and current events. You can follow her @yagazieemezi.
PAST Webinars
Advice from Funders on Reporting Grants for Photojournalists
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 on April 23, 2020. 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
COVID-19 Safety Training for Visual Journalists
Online training and Q&A session for journalists working in the field with infectious disease physician and researcher Dr. Jenell Stewart, held on April 16, 2020. Dr. Stewart authored The Everyday Projects COVID-19 Guide for Visual Journalists. She provides a basic overview on COVID-19 transmission and safety tips for working in the field.
The Webinar includes discussion around:
-Understanding transmission
-What droplet and contaminated surfaces mean
-How to prevent transmission on contaminated surfaces
-How to prevent transmission via droplet (with mask info)
-Categorizing assignments as low risk, medium risk, or high risk and what supplies you need to safely complete those assignments.
Related link: www.lensrentals.com/blog/2020/03/how-to-disinfect-camera-equipment-and-spaces/
Co-hosted by CatchLight and Institute for Nonprofit News