Dispatches in Exile: Amplifying the Voices of Migrants and Refugees
Over the next twelve months, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Bosnia and Herzegovina, VII Academy trainers will teach the basic principles of journalism, and media production including photography, time-based media, ethics and narrative storytelling to a group of about 60 men and women from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East currently…
Read MoreVII Academy partners with the YMCA of Greater Boston
The initiative supports twenty high school students who are enrolled in the YMCA Young Achievers program and who come from some of the most under-resourced neighborhoods in the city. The students have committed to an 8-month program learning photography, documenting their communities, and expressing themselves visually. The YMCA Achievers Program’s mission is to help teens…
Read MoreYouth Program with the Bronx Documentary Center
This fall, we partnered with the Bronx Documentary Center in order to reach young adults who showed promise in the BDC’s programs and who wanted to extend their journalism training. The Bronx Documentary Center provides free education programs for middle and high school students as well as a professional education program for historically underrepresented adult…
Read MoreThe William Gross and Jennifer Stengaard Gross Scholarship
Scholarship winner Mushfiq Mahbub Turjo defines himself as an artist and image maker who likes to combine photography, collage and painting. After graduating with a Bachelor of Business Administration, Turjo attended a 3-year photography program at the Pathshala South Asian Media Institute in Dhaka, and then studied photography at the Danish School of Media and…
Read MoreThe Srebrenica 2020 installation presented by The VII Academy and The VII Foundation
The exhibition contains photographs, video and texts made between 1992 and 1996 across the country and show a clear pattern of violence primarily aimed at the Muslim population of Bosnia - Herzegovina. The fall of the enclave protected by the United Nations culminated in genocide, the first act on European soil since World War II. ©Ron…
Read MoreThe VII Academy’s first seminar underway for indigenous Pacific Islanders
When the VII Academy approached Ben Bohane to gather together a cohort of indigenous Pacific island photographers and students, he was enthusiastic to help train and network them so they could start telling their own stories to a regional and global audience. With the arrival of smart phones and Facebook, many Pacific islanders are engaging…
Read MoreReview: Nature: Through Her Eyes Festival
In early 2019, VII Academy founder Gary Knight and wildlife cinematographer and producer Jacqueline Farmer began discussing the inequities women face in the media industry, particularly in storytelling and art that portrays the natural world. They wanted to create a space for women to feel uplifted in this field and gain the resources and tools…
Read MoreReview: Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX) Scholarships
Spring 2020 In 2020, the Photojournalism Department from the Danish School of Media and Journalism selected Solmaz Daryani (Iran) and Sabry Khaled (Egypt) to receive scholarships fully funded by the VII Foundation and the VII Academy to study at their Photo I program for the Spring 2020 semester. Solmaz Daryani and Sabry Khaled were selected…
Read MoreReview: P-CRC Balkan Diskurs Youth Correspondents Training 2019
P-CRC organized an interactive, multimedia training program focused on cultivating participants’ skills in investigative and citizen journalism techniques. These included basic reporting skills and photography techniques, instruction in conducting interviews and identifying and verifying sources and advice on how to work in a safe, responsible and ethical manner. One of the primary goals of this…
Read MoreReview: Seeing The Light: Rangoon Streets
Schwartz reloading under Pathein bananas. Oct 2019 © Philip Blenkinsop / VII The aim of the workshop, supported by Myanmar Deitta and the VII Academy, was to introduce the participants to the discipline of street photography and involved a mix of shooting sessions, in-depth theory, with particular attention paid to the analysis of the late…
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Read MoreReview: Human Stories: Finding the Personal
Telling personal stories and connecting with the human element is what draws many people into photography in the first place, but telling personal stories can be difficult. In this workshop, students strengthened their personal visions and worked on an ongoing or new project. They shared their work in intimate sessions and learned about the many…
Read MoreReview: Kuma International Summer School
This was the second edition of Kuma International Summer School, with this year’s programming focusing on contemporary art production in Bosnia and Herzegovina and how artists from the region have discussed and dealt with the political climate of the 1990s. Students participated in gallery and studio visits, museum tours and engaging discussions with artists and…
Read MoreReview: War Art Remembrance and Memory (WARM) Festival
Between July 8 and 13, the Post-Conflict Research Center (P-CRC) and WARM Foundation organized a dynamic event for men and women from all over the Balkan region and the world. Over four days the Festival included six film premieres, two exhibition openings and ten educational events, panel sessions, and keynote speeches. Over the course of…
Read MoreReview: Chobi Mela
Chobi Mela was the first festival of photography in Asia, initiated in in December 2000-January 2001 by Drik Picture Library Ltd. and Pathshala South Asian Media Institute. It is one of the most demographically inclusive photo festivals in the world and has been the most significant photographic event in Asia, held every two years in Dhaka,…
Read MoreReview: Burmese Days: Documenting an Extraordinary Voyage of Discovery
One of the best ways to learn any skill is by observing master practitioners at work. That was the reasoning behind offering such this intimate workshop experience; to ensure that participants had the invaluable opportunity to observe Daniel Schwartz and Philip Blenkinsop, seasoned exponents of their art, at work in the field. The ability to pre-empt…
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