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Solutions Visual Journalism with Santi Palacios

November 12, 2026
12:00–13:15PM EST

Virtual event

A young man watches the Ciliwung River as it flows through central Jakarta, Indonesia, on Feb 21, 2020. Jakarta’s rivers and aquifers are among the most polluted on the planet. Tons of waste from factories along the shores of the rivers that flow through the metropolis are dumped directly into the waters, in addition to raw domestic waste from millions of homes that ends up in the city's waterways. Despite its status as the largest megalopolis in Southeast Asia, Jakarta has no public sewage system. A 2021 study by the World Bank calculated that nine out of ten homes in the Indonesian capital used latrines or septic tanks. Some of the most exclusive condominiums have private sewage treatment facilities, but they didn't always comply with minimum standards and often ended up leaching sewage into the subsoil. © Santi Palacios

How do we navigate the increasingly turbulent times we live in and proactively address the growing range of complex local and global issues we face? The need for constructive responses to the changing social, political, and cultural landscape is growing.

Solutions Visual Journalism offers rigorous, evidence-based, image-led reporting on how communities are responding to complex social problems.

David Campbell is joined by award-winning visual journalist and editor-in-chief of SONDA Internacional, Santi Palacios, to discuss the principles and impact of Solutions reporting and how this approach can reframe the narrative from the problem to the response.

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Participants

Dr. David Campbell

David is an educator with a uniquely varied history of research, writing, strategy, and management within academia, government, and non-profit organizations. Since 2021, David has been working with The VII Foundation, where he is the Director of Education, responsible for the foundation’s education programs, online and hybrid events, and Dispatches: The VII Foundation Blog.

Santi Palacios

Santi Palacios is a photojournalist, Canon Ambassador, and Editor-in-Chief of Sonda Internacional, a non-profit media outlet specializing in visual journalism on the climate crisis.