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Wilmarie Deetlefs, 24, together with her boyfriend, Zakithi Buthelezi, 27, on a night out in Johannesburg, South Africa on Nov. 1, 2018. They are both part of South Africa’s ‘born free generation,’ youngsters who were born around the ending of the racial segregation system, apartheid. Wilmarie Deetlefs, 24, together with her boyfriend, Zakithi Buthelezi, 27, on a night out in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Nov. 1, 2018. They are both part of South Africa’s ‘born free generation,’ youngsters who were born around the ending of the racial segregation system, apartheid. © Ilvy Njiokiktjien / VII.

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View out over a refugee camp in Adre, a border town in the Ouaddaï province in Chad. Overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in Adre have led to a severe health crisis, with over 1,200 cases of Hepatitis E reported, including three fatalities, by July 2024. Photo by Nicolò Filippo Rosso

Covering Sudan’s Refugee Camps: How Nicolò Filippo Rosso and Finbarr O’Reilly documented an overlooked humanitarian crisis

Exhibition “Photo Archives are Sleeping Beauties. The Black Sea Coast in the Photographs of Tengiz Purtskhvanidze,” which was on view at Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum. © Tbel Abuseridze.

Curator Series – Nestan Nijaradze

Young teenagers play in a park close to the protection house. As part of the psychological support activities, enjoying green outdoor areas allows them to experience normality away from the violence of which they have been victims. Quito, Ecuador July 27, 2023. © David Diaz Arcos.

Photo Stories Documenting Abuse

Born Free: Generation of Hope

How to Edit Your Story, by Marc Prüst

Latin American Photobooks: A Curator’s Perspective

Guardians of Gaia, by Oyewole Lawal

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 2022. Ziyah Gafić

Monumental Photography: Investigating Representations of Colonialism and Nationalism

©Photograph by David Turnley

Journalism at Risk: Threats and Responses

**IMAGE GENERATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE** Prompt: ÒAn award winning documentary photograph of a lone soldier and the victim of a war crime in the style of a VII photographerÓ (created via Midjourney on 6 June 2023) (Image created for a discussion on AI)

Artificial Intelligence and the Threat to the Real

Photo by Joachim Ladefoged/VII.

Photo Editors Series – Carla Rosorius

Cancer Free Riley request to sit on a white horse for her final portrait with a princess dress. © Doug Barrett

Photo Stories from the Square Mile Initiative

US Marines of the 3rd Battalion 4th Marines attend to a colleague badly wounded by artillery fire at Baghdad Highway Bridge. © Gary Knight / VII

How Is The VII Foundation Addressing Visual Journalism’s Challenges? A Conversation With Gary Knight

A boy holding a child walks near some houses heavily damaged by the sea in Bargny, Senegal on December 16, 2023. The coastal erosion began in the 1980s but worsened in the early 2000s. Bargny is currently losing three to four meters of coast each year.

Visualizing the Climate Crisis: Climate Migration

Curator Series – István Virágvölgyi

Photo by Afonso Pimenta

Retratistas do Morro: Reshaping Brazil’s historical records

Photo Editors Series – Abir Abdullah

Mayron and Chris look at bills and fight about money. Photo by Stacy Kranitz

Documenting Abortion Restrictions in America, with Stacy Kranitz and Andrea Wise

Young girls prepare to perform the Bulgarian custom "Lazaruvane" in the village of Kubey, Ukraine, on April 8, 2023. This tradition has been lost in the village of Kubey, but now a group of people is working to revive it. "Lazaruvane" is a procession performed by young girls on the Saturday of the week before Easter. Groups of young girls go around the village's houses, singing songs about health and fertility, and the families they visit present them with eggs and money.

Photo Stories about Small Communities

Photo by Julia Kochetova

Ukrainian Warchive: Collecting Stories of War

Image from LagosPhoto 2020: Rapid Response Restitution - Home Museum

Curator Series – Azu Henry Nwagbogu

Photo by Smita Sharma, from her project 'We Cry In Silence'

Telling Stories with Impact: Smita Sharma

Photo by Raphael Alves

Visualizing the Climate Crisis: Deforestation

Photo by Ashley Gilbertson / VII Photo.

Documenting the Danger to Democracy

Photo by Irene Barlian

VII Community Presents: Stories about Climate and the Environment

Building a Ukrainian War Photo Archive

Women visit a hot spring that has emerged from the dried bed of the Aral Sea, near Akespe village, Kazakhstan. Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea has lost 90 percent of its content since river water was first diverted to serve agriculture and industry in the 1960s. Photo by Anush Babajanyan.

How to Submit Your Work for the 2024 World Press Photo Contest

Photo by Joachim Ladefoged/VII.

Photo Editors Series – Gabriel Eisenmeier

A mother pushes a stroller along one of the pathways of the Sarajevo Zoo. During the early months of the 1992-95 war, the international media covered the death of one of the last surviving animals - a bear - prompting an outcry from animal rights activists who demanded an end to the war. Sarajevans, who endured a three-and-a-half year siege of their city by Serb forces while the international community did little to assist them, still comment wryly about the fact that the deaths of the animals in the zoo seemed to create more protests against the war than the deaths of the 10,000 civilians who died during the siege. Photograph by Sara Terry

How to apply for grants, with Sara Terry and Raymond Thompson

A minor holding a toy gun in the historic center of Ponticelli, during local festivities. Educational poverty has a significant impact on the southern regions of Italy. According to statistics reported by the Provincial Command of the Carabinieri for the year 2022, 671 weapons were seized. Naples is the leading metropolitan area in Europe for the use of firearms by minors. Photo by Paolo Manzo

Four Questions on Photography: Ilvy Njiokiktjien in Conversation with Paolo Manzo

Tatianna Lesnikova has fled from the USSR to the US. She was convinced that local officials were preparing to commit her to a mental hospital for anti-government views. They had already done so with her son Danil. Lesnikova traveled on a USSR passport and hoped to one day return to her son, but during her travels, her home country dissolved. Now, she is stuck. The US doesn’t want her to stay and is trying to deport her. Lesnikova is left in limbo, with no rights, protections, or a path to resolution. © Shaminder Dulai.

Lecture Series on Ethical Literacy, Part 3: Photography Ethics: Putting Ethics into Practice

This image is from Danielle Villasana her long-term project "Abre Camino". For this work, she documented how the life-threatening consequences of discrimination and marginalization push transgender women to flee their homes in Central America and migrate north toward the United States in search of safety.

Lecture Series on Ethical Literacy, Part 2: Photography Ethics: Representational Power and Responsibility

Fresh graves of servicemen who died defending Ukraine from Russian invaders are seen at the cemetery of Bucha, Kyiv Region. © Franco Pagetti / VII.

Lecture Series on Ethical Literacy, Part 1: Photography Ethics–What Is It and Why Does It Matter?

Photo from the series 'Between the Silent Eyes', a photographic series exploring the social-cultural issues of the young minority Hmong women in Vietnam. Photo by Nhàn Tran

VII Community Presents: Perspectives from Asia

Photo Ilvy Njiokiktjien

1 in 6 by 2030: How to Visualize a Demographic Transition

Aerial view of burning land near the Phnom Tnout Phnom Pok Wildlife Sanctuary, in Songkom Thmey District, Preah Vihear Province, northern Cambodia. During the dry season between January to March, hundreds of fires continually rage across the country. Land is burnt by farmers, loggers and local people looking to either capture wildlife or clear land for agriculture. Cambodia has one of the world's fastest rates of deforestation and it is estimated only 3% of primary forest is now left. Photograph by Sean Gallagher.

Covering the Climate Crisis from China, with Sean Gallagher

Exodus – American Migrations, with Nicoló Filippo Rosso

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 A.I.

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

Tannery workers working in unsafe conditions, Kolkata, India. Photograph by Rebecca Cappelli, from her documentary film SLAY, 20 October 2021.

Visualizing the Climate Crisis: The Fashion System

In summertime, the family often shares meals outside in the garden, at intergenerational cohousing family Blom, in Zoelmond, the Netherlands, on the 21st of May 2020. © Ilvy Njiokiktjien / VII.

Ask Us Anything, with David Campbell and Ilvy Njiokiktjien

Alshuqilab village, Sudan, 17 October 2020, which was heavily affected by the floods of that year, the worst flooding in Sudan for a century. Photograph by Roger Anis.

VII Community Presents: Perspectives from Africa

Milos and Marija Tesanov, brother and sister, are the last remaining pupils in once upon a time big and crowded school in the village of Trnski Odorovci in southern Serbia. In Serbia, there are over 80 elementary schools with only one pupil attending, and hundreds of those that either stopped working in the recent past (over the course of the last 20-30 years) or will be completely abandoned in the near future. Trnski Odorovci, Serbia, 24 February 2020. Photograph by Marko Risovic.

New Voices – Marko Risovic

Serbian Tiger leader Zeljko Raznatovic or Arkan poses with his paramilitary unit, waving the Serbian flag, and a baby tiger that he liberated from a Croatian zoo in Erdut, Croatia, in the fall of 1991. Arkan's Tigers were responsible for a large part of the ethnic cleansing that occurred at the beginning of the war in Bosnia. Photograph by Ron Haviv / VII

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