THE STRINGER receives four Emmy nominations       THE STRINGER receives four Emmy nominations      
© Laura El-Tantawy
Beyond Crisis: Reframing the Image of a Region
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Ardamata © Sara Creta.
Ardamata: Reconstructing a Massacre in the Age of AI, with Sara Creta
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ICE agents detain a man in the hallway of 26 Federal Plaza immediately after his hearing. Arrests like this occur even when respondents comply with court proceedings, a practice immigrant rights groups call “courthouse arrests.” While some families walk out together, others vanish into detention, often transferred to Hudson County Correctional Facility in New Jersey or Orange County Jail in New York. In FY 2025, ICE reported holding over 59,000 people in detention on a given day, nearly half with no criminal record. In New York City, more than 30% of ICE arrests between May and June 2025 occurred inside courthouses. © Nicolò Filippo Rosso.
Inside the U.S. Immigration System with Nicolò Filippo Rosso
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The fish belong in the river, but the river is gone. A man stands in the water, while balloons shaped like dolphins float above, a parody of joy. Nature is replaced by plastic, survival is presented as celebration. Urbanisation turns rivers into markets, creatures into commodities, and memory into something fleeting. © Jubair Ahmed Arnob.
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25
2026

VII Community Presents: Sony World Photography Award Finalists

© Laura El-Tantawy
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Jun
11
2026

Beyond Crisis: Reframing the Image of a Region

© Nicolas Arnold.
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04
2026

Photography Ethics Symposium: Online Panel – Photography in the Digital Era

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© Romain Boutillier.
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Jul
11
2025

Documenting Environmental Crises: Repression, Resistance, Solutions

© Romain Boutillier.
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Jul
10
2025

Documenting War: The Changing Role of Photojournalism from Vietnam to Gaza

© Joachim Ladefoged / VII.
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Jun
26
2025

Photo Editors Series: Brand Storytelling with Bridget Harris

One of the countless crossings that the Koolbars have to pass by carrying items weighing more than 50 kilos in long distances. These passages are one of the main causes of the death of Koolbars. They usually leave late at night to cross the border early in the morning. Kurdistan, Iran, June 2019. © Ebrahim Alipoor.
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Jun
05
2025

VII Community Presents: Winning Stories from the World Press Photo Contest

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

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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