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Photo Editors Series – Wikus de Wet
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Riot police attack journalists who accompanied Carlos F. Chamorro, director of Confidencial, to the Plaza El Sol offices to inquire about the confiscation of their offices in Managua, Nicaragua. December 15, 2018. Photograph by Carlos Herrera.
How Is Latin American Journalism Resisting Authoritarianism?
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President Donald Trump arrives as Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) holds as a sign as Trump enters the House chamber to deliver an address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photograph by Win McNamee/Getty Images
Re-Framing the Narrative: Unconventional Imagery From Trump’s Not-Normal First 100 Days
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© Joachim Ladefoged / VII.
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May
22
2025

Photo Editors Series – Wikus de Wet

A costumed protester during the People’s March in Washington , DC on January 18, 2025. © Ed Kashi.
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May
08
2025

Triumph & Defeat in Washington D.C: Capturing the Inauguration & People’s March

Riot police attack journalists who accompanied Carlos F. Chamorro, director of Confidencial, to the Plaza El Sol offices to inquire about the confiscation of their offices in Managua, Nicaragua. December 15, 2018. Photograph by Carlos Herrera.
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Apr
24
2025

How Is Latin American Journalism Resisting Authoritarianism?

President Donald Trump arrives as Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) holds as a sign as Trump enters the House chamber to deliver an address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photograph by Win McNamee/Getty Images
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Apr
10
2025

Re-Framing the Narrative: Unconventional Imagery From Trump’s Not-Normal First 100 Days

Phillip Toledano, We Are at War. IMAGE GENERATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
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Mar
27
2025

Reimagining History with Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Phillip Toledano

German Flores feeds the donkeys with carrots, at the Burrolandia sanctuary, in Otumba, Mexico State, on December 6, 2024. “They love carrots, it’s their favorite food, and they can’t resist it”, he says, as he drives his car around the fields while playing music: “When they listen to this song, they know food is coming”. © Sara Escobar.
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Mar
13
2025

Photo Stories from the Square Mile Initiative

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A Trump supporter in regalia passes a local seller of swag while waiting for 5 hours in the freezing rain, to get into the Capital One Center for Trump’s Victory Rally in Washington, DC on January 19, 2025. © Ed Kashi.
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May
08
2025

Triumph & Defeat in Washington D.C: Capturing the Inauguration & People’s March

Riot police attack journalists who accompanied Carlos F. Chamorro, director of Confidencial, to the Plaza El Sol offices to inquire about the confiscation of their offices in Managua, Nicaragua. December 15, 2018. Photograph by Carlos Herrera.
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Apr
28
2025

How Is Latin American Journalism Resisting Authoritarianism?

President Donald Trump arrives as Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) holds as a sign as Trump enters the House chamber to deliver an address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photograph by Win McNamee/Getty Images
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Apr
10
2025

Re-Framing the Narrative: Unconventional Imagery From Trump’s Not-Normal First 100 Days

curated collection: Artificial Intelligence

IMAGE GENERATED BY AI. In response to the prompt, “Give me an image of a photojournalist documenting an important issue,” ChatGPT4o produced this visual of a young white male with a DSLR wearing camouflage gear at a public gathering or protest. ChatGPT said: “Here's the image of a photojournalist documenting an important issue. The scene captures the intensity and focus of real-time news reporting.” 22 July 2024.
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Jul
24
2024

Artificial Intelligence and the Threat to the Real: An Interview With Mutale Nkonde

Mutale Nkonde, CEO of AI for the People, speaks about algorithmic racism in the databases that drive large language models and how this bias shapes AI-generated images.
**IMAGE GENERATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE** Prompt: “An award winning documentary photograph of a lone soldier and the victim of a war crime in the style of a VII photographer” (created via Midjourney on 6 June 2023) (Image created for a discussion on AI)
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Jul
03
2024

Artificial Intelligence and the Threat to the Real

On July 3, 2024, we hosted a hybrid event at The VII Foundation Campus in Arles, France, addressing the risks synthetic media pose to image reliability. The session explored how independent practitioners and media organizations can ensure authenticated visual content remains central to visual journalism.
Signature behavior, 2013. © Tomas Van Houtryve / VII.
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Jul
13
2023

Documentary Photography in the Era of Generative A.I., with Tomas van Houtryve and Fred Ritchin

In this event moderated by David Campbell, Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus at the International Center of Photography, discussed with photographer Tomas van Houtryve the risks and opportunities AI presents to documentary photography.

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