Video Collection

For those unable to attend our regular live events, we record all our presentations and make them available shortly afterward.

The collection has recordings on a wide range of themes and topics. We invite you to search and watch at your leisure. If you are interested in a particular subject, you can filter by category and tag.

Ardamata: Reconstructing a Massacre in the Age of AI, with Sara Creta

Quest for Identity © Ziyah Gafić

Memory as Resistance – Archives, Inheritance, and the Politics of Remembering

The Destruction of Mount Pleasant Parcel Sorting Office, 18 June 1943. Evening Standard photograph censored by the British Ministry of Information Source: Imperial War Museums (Ref: HU 137024)

The Camera at War: 170 Years of Weaponizing Photography, with Hilary Roberts

Photo Editors Series: Josh Lustig

Open-Source Intelligence: An Investigative Journalism Workshop

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

VII Community Presents: Publishing Long-Term Documentary Projects

Climate Elders Exhibition at COP30, Belém, Brazil, 2025.

1in6by2030 Presents ‘Climate Elders’: Lives Reshaped by the Climate Crisis

Chechnya contact sheet © Christopher Morris.

Expanding the Archive with Kira Pollack and Christopher Morris

From the series Hala, Al-Hajar Mountains, United Arab Emirates. © Steve Macleod.

Thirty Years of Creative Imaging with Steve Macleod

Photo Editors Series – Diane Smyth

FlakPhoto HQ © Andy Adams

Curators Series – FlakPhoto’s Andy Adams

Chimpanzee. Shanghai Wild Animal Park. China. Naturalistic painted murals have become a common feature in zoo enclosures worldwide, aiming to give visitors an impression of animals in their native habitats The painted backdrop of the chimpanzee enclosure at Shanghai Wild Animal Park has been commended for its artistry but serves only to provide a comforting illusion to human observers. In their natural habitat in the forests of Central Africa, chimpanzees spend most of their days in the treetops. Chimpanzees are highly social animals — one of the most socially complex species among all non-human primates. In the wild they live in groups ranging in size between 20 and 150 individuals.

The Anthropocene Illusion with Zed Nelson

At sunrise, seen in the trees of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique on September 10, 2023. © Guerchom Ndebo.

Documenting Environmental Crises: Repression, Resistance, Solutions

Soldiers of the 43rd Heavy Artillery Brigade, which are part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, operated a 2S7 Pion cannon, firing shells towards Russian fortifications inside the city of Kreminna, from an area west of Kreminna, Ukraine, on Saturday, December 31, 2022. © Nicole Tung / VII.

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

Photo Editors Series: Brand Storytelling with Bridget Harris

One of the countless arduous crossing paths that the Kolbars have to take while carrying items weighing more than 50 kilograms for long distances. These passages are one of the main causes of the deaths Kolbars endure. Kolbars usually leave late at night for the border to make a crossing early in the morning. Kurdistan, Iran, June 2019.

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

Photo Editors Series – Wikus de Wet

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Dec. 6, 2024. “They love carrots—it’s their favorite food, and they can’t resist it,” he says, driving around the fields while playing music. “When they hear this song, they know food is coming.” © Sara Escobar.

Photo Stories from The Square Mile Initiative

When sea ice ages, the salt sinks into the ocean, leaving fresh, drinkable water on top. Charlotte Naqitaqvik collects a teapot of water at her familyÕs hunting camp in Nuvukutaak, near the community of Arctic Bay in northern Canada. © Acacia Johnson.

Visual Storytelling Techniques with Acacia Johnson

The Japanese Macaque, best known as the ‘snow monkey,’ is revered as a bridge between man and the gods, but it has become so habituated to humans in recent years that its population has increased tenfold. Now, the exploding monkey population in the countryside must raid crops to survive, and farmers are responding with homemade deterrents; meanwhile, macaques brought to the cities for the entertainment industry are a big hit with locals and tourists. © Jasper Doest.

Visual Storytelling for Positive Change in Wildlife Conservation, with Jasper Doest

Jalalabad, Nangarhar, Afghanistan, February 12, 2024. © Kiana Hayeri

Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, with Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet

Photographer Smita Sharma speaks during 'Session 2' at TEDWomen 2021: What Now? © Marla Aufmuth / TED

Present Your Work: Public Speaking Tips from Smita Sharma

"Homeland" © Maria Gutu.

Photo Stories Exploring the Meaning of Home

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

Photo Editors Series – Fiona Shields

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

Lisa Barnard, The Canary and the Hammer, exhibition in Kunsthalle Mannheim as part of the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, 2022. © Miriam Stanke.

Curator Series – Iris Sikking

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

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.

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

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 Editors Series – Carla Rosorius

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.

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