Jun
162025
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Accidents happen. How do you keep your data safe, sorted, and backed up? And what do you do with it now that you’ve finally gotten it all organized?
Speakers: Jintak Han Amina Lakhaney
Moderators: Salgu Wissmath
Location: Online
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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.
Jintak Han is a breaking news photo editor at The Washington Post. He handles visual coverage of global news from The Post‘s breaking news hub in Seoul. Before joining The Post in 2023, he was a freelance visual journalist, photographing for agencies such as ZUMA Press and the USA Today Network.
Amina Lakhaney studied Photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology and began working with New York City fine art retail galleries in 2007. She soon pivoted to focus on artist management, working with renowned Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson for nearly a decade. In this role she managed and led projects cataloguing and organizing the expansive 20,000+ print archive, while curating and liaising acquisitions by private collections and museums. Lakhaney has edited many of Davidson’s monographs including the catalog for his retrospective exhibition with MAPFRE (2016).
Over the last 10 years, she has focused on working directly with artists and their estates, organizing archives, estate planning, placement of work with charitable institutions, and is frequently brought on to project manage large scale appraisal inspection projects.
Salgu Wissmath (they/them/theirs) is a nonbinary Korean American freelance photographer based in San Antonio, TX and Sacramento, CA. Their personal work explores the intersections of mental health, queer identity, and faith from a conceptual documentary approach. They were previously a Hearst Photo Fellow at San Antonio Express-News and the San Francisco Chronicle. Salgu was recognized as AAJA’s 2022 Emerging Journalist of the Year and received the 2023 Curve Award for Emerging Journalists. They are a 2024 Lauren Brown Fellow, 2022 IWMF Gwen Ifill Fellow, a 2021 California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellow, and a recipient of a 2021 Puffin Foundation Grant and 2025 San Antonio Artist Grant. Their work has been published in the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Texas Tribune, CalMatters, San Antonio Magazine, among others. Salgu is the Communications Director for Diversify Photo and a member of the Asian American Journalists Association, NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, Trans Journalists Association, Women Photograph, and Authority Collective.
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.
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