The VII Foundation
The VII Foundation’s mission is to transform visual journalism by empowering new voices and creating stories that advocate change. In a world where beliefs and actions are increasingly out-of-sync with facts and realities, transforming visual journalism is an urgent task.
WHAT WE DO
The VII Foundation trains and equips emerging visual journalists from communities underrepresented in the media. These practitioners have a front-seat perspective on urgent challenges that concern us all. The VII Foundation teaches essential skills and strategies to ensure the truth is documented and made available to a global audience seeking to make decisions and choices based on facts, not hearsay.
Our training is tuition-free and conducted by leading professional journalists who have worked for decades on the frontlines of some of our societies’ most complex and difficult challenges. In this era of an underfunded, dying global media enterprise, our trainees help ensure the global conversation continues and is fuelled by first-person reporting vs. unsourced, uncredited rumors and factual manipulation. In addition to empowering over 1,200 new voices in journalism from more than 100 countries, we host public conversations and critical debates that ask tough questions about the context, purpose, and impact of images. We create large-scale and long-term documentary projects, exhibitions, and films that reveal complex realities; advocate for change; and serve as resources for policymakers, the public, and journalists worldwide.
The VII Foundation consists of three educational initiatives: VII Academy, VII Community, and VII Insider, along with VII Photo, acquired in 2023.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
April 1975
Phnom Penh – Saigon
Currently on view at Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie, April 1975, Phnom Penh – Saigon is an exhibition that examines the lives and work of the journalists who covered the end of the wars in Cambodia and Vietnam in April 1975.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Élévations
by Éric Bouvet
Opening on November 13, 2024, at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Élévations by Éric Bouvet is an exhibition of large-format photographs that capture the majestic landscapes of the Alps. While the mountains stand as timeless symbols of natural beauty, Bouvet’s images also serve as a subtle commentary on their vulnerability in the face of climate change and environmental degradation.
LONG-FORM DOCUMENTARY PROJECTS
LONG-FORM PROJECT
Nature Through Her Eyes is a tuition-free education program focused on natural history filmmaking, providing high-level training and continued mentorship to women filmmakers. The bi-annual festival promotes new narrative projects through collaborations with industry leaders, workshops, masterclasses, and seminars.
SIGNATURE PROJECT
LONG-FORM PROJECT
LONG-FORM PROJECT
LONG-FORM PROJECT
An initiative of The VII Foundation, Generation Human Rights, and Photoville, the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) Interactive Classroom Program, and Mobile Exhibit Bus Tour was a global human rights learning project.
LONG-FORM PROJECT
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