A practical 2-hour workshop introducing visual journalists to safety as a pillar for professionalism and best practice.
Presenters: Ariel Zambelich Yemile Bucay
Location: International Center of Photography
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This practical two hour workshop offers visual journalists an introduction to safety as a pillar of professionalism, while providing the essential tools and knowledge needed to adhere to best practices. It will cover the basics of:
The workshop will be centered around psychological safety, profile and identity, and will highlight the importance of a holistic approach to safety and security. It will facilitate an informal exchange where participants can voice doubts, ask questions and share experience. It will also include case studies and exercises.
At Photoville Festival 2023, The ACOS Alliance and CPJ will also be offering their signature one-on-one Safety Clinics free for freelance photojournalists. We’ll be opening up sign ups next week, so keep an eye open!
Ariel Zambelich is a photojournalist and the Visuals Director at the Baltimore Banner, a local nonprofit news organization where she collaborates to tell stories through photojournalism, illustration, and design. A Los Angeles native, she graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in journalism. She attended the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2008, was nominated for World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass in 2009, and attended the Kalish Workshop for photo editing in 2012.
Her photography clients include the New York Times + NY Times Magazine, Huck Magazine (UK), WIRED + WIRED Japan, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Nobel Foundation, the Atlantic, NatureBridge, California Sunday Magazine, the Harvard Business Review, Etiqueta Negra, M le magazine du Monde, and The FADER. She has also done freelance editing work for the Matte agency, Buzzfeed News, Outside Magazine, and AARP.
She was most recently a Managing Photo Editor for the Wall Street Journal with a focus on Politics + National News. Previously she was the Senior Photo Editor for The Intercept, the Supervising Editor of Photography + Art Director for NPR Visuals, and a photo editor for WIRED. She spent several years co-directing a documentary photography gallery in San Francisco. She also co-edited Pictures on the Radio, a book featuring the work of the late photojournalist David P. Gilkey.
She is a board member with the Authority Collective, and a general member of Diversify.Photo, organizations that focus on amplifying the voices of female-identifying and minority photographers + visual journalists. She is also on the Organizing Committee for the Freelance Solidarity Project, a union for freelance media workers, and a member of the 2019 Cohort of ONA’s Women’s Leadership Accelerator.
Yemile Bucay is a journalism risk advisor and safety trainer working to promote a culture of safety in the profession in order to have a sustainable, resilient and free press. She advises PEN America’s Free Expression Programs on safety and security matters and is a resident security advisor to the students and faculty of the Craig Newmark Graduate School for Journalism at CUNY. She was BuzzFeed’s Risk & Security Manager, where she worked with staff and freelance journalists of BuzzFeed News and HuffPost. She was also a Fellow in the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Next Gen Safety Trainers program, a cohort of media security professionals trained for the newly emergent risks faced in media today. Before working in news safety, Yemile was a journalist who reported on immigration, produced a documentary on violence in her native Mexico, led research on online information ecosystems, and taught the business of journalism at Columbia’s Journalism School. Yemile received a B.A. in Humanities from Yale University, and a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
The ACOS (A Culture of Safety) Alliance is a unique global coalition of 150+ news organizations, journalist associations and press freedom NGOs working together to champion safe and responsible journalism practices, with a focus on freelance and local journalists. ACOS leverages the expertise and resources of its stakeholders to democratize access to safety expertise and training for under-resourced journalists and newsrooms; raises safety standards through the Freelance Journalist Safety Principles; and advances safety best practice, innovation and collaboration among news organizations, NGOs and journalists.
The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. CPJ provides comprehensive support to journalists and media support staff working around the world through up-to-date safety and security information and rapid response assistance.
Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.
In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.
By activating public spaces, amplifying visual storytellers, and creating unique and highly innovative exhibition and programming environments, we join the cause of nurturing a new lens of representation.
Through creative partnerships with festivals, city agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, Photoville offers visual storytellers, educators, and students financial support, mentorship, and promotional & production resources, on a range of exhibition opportunities.
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