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Maria and her daughters Jimena, Alana, Elier and Andri travel aboard the roof of "La Bestia". With temperatures that exceed 40 degrees centimeters during the summer, these families must endure a journey of more than 2 thousand kilometers through Mexico. © Israel Fugueman.

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Our training is tuition-free for students undertaking the three levels of the Visual Journalism Program or selected for the Mentor Program.

This training is delivered in our Arles, France, and Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina campuses and through our global online platforms. We have educated over 1,200 practitioners from more than 100 countries, including the United States, India, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Brazil, amongst many others.

VISUAL JOURNALISM PROGRAM →

OPEN FOR APPLICATION we empower new voices through education, especially from under-resourced regions where press freedom is limited.     
Level 1: a solid foundation of practical skills→
A collective breakfast during the holy month of Ramadan. Giza, Egypt. © Fares El Sayed for The VII Foundation.
level 2: extends the concepts from Level 1→
"A Life of Confinement" by © M Palani Kumar
level 3: an intensive, interdisciplinary, in-person, month-long program. →
An excavator makes way for land plotting even as a child prepares to plant rice saplings in Bhaktapur's Sipadol, Nepal. © Amit Machamasi.

open for application

Feb
3
2025
VJP.1.019 French-speaking Africa, Level 1
French
Core, Seminar
application deadline January 5
Feb
3
2025
VJP.1.020 India, Level 1
English
Core, Seminar
application deadline January 5
Feb
3
2025
VJP.1.022 Native Arabic Speakers, Level 1
Arabic
Core, Seminar
application deadline January 5
Feb
18
2025
VJP.1.021 Southeastern Europe, Level 1
English
Core, Seminar
application deadline January 20

vii mentor program →

A structured professional environment for emerging new talents.
→
View of a group of passengers from different walks of life and with different destinations in the port district, Alexandria, Egypt, April 2, 2019. © Fatma Fahmy for the VII Mentor Program.

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Photo: Santa Cruz del Islote, the only artificial island among the 10 in the San Bernardo archipelago. With 700 people on one hectare, it is considered the most densely populated island in the world. Oct. 13, 2018. © Charlie Cordero.