In a time of increased press scrutiny and imperiled press freedoms, how do you keep yourself, your work, and the people you photograph safe from harm?
Speakers: Harlo Holmes Ariel Zambelich Colin Pereira
Location: Online
Photoville and Diversify Photo present The 2025 Toolkit, a series of professional development workshops supported by Leica Camera! We are here to talk about best practices for photographers in the current political climate. These panel discussions will cover the intricacies of applying for funding, strategies for maintaining digital safety, and the best systems and tools for archiving your work.
Harlo is the chief information security officer and director of digital security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist. Harlo was a regular contributor to the open source mobile security collective Guardian Project, where she spearheaded the media metadata verification initiative currently empowering ProofMode, Save by OpenArchive, eyeWitness to Atrocities, and others.
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.
Colin Pereira serves as CPJ’s chief strategist on journalist safety. For more than 15 years, he has worked to shape the risk management model for journalists operating under threat. He is a Director at HP Risk Management, a consultancy assisting companies and media organizations operating in fragile environments. Previously he was head of security for ITN and Deputy Head of BBC High Risk Team. Pereira has advised teams of journalists covering wars, natural disasters, terrorism and riots globally, and has worked on high-risk investigations. Colin Pereira was also a journalist for BBC Newsnight and BBC Current Affairs.
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.
For more information about Photoville visit, www.photoville.com
Diversify Photo is a community of BIPOC and non-Western photographers, editors, and visual producers working to break with the predominantly colonial and patriarchal eye through which history and the media have recorded the images of our time.