Join the Pulitzer Center to explore how photojournalist Quinn Glabicki built trust with local residents to document the everyday impacts of environmental degradation on vulnerable communities. Moderated by Stephanie Strasburg, photojournalist at PublicSource, this panel explores how documentary photography can uniquely capture under-told stories of resilience and injustice—and inspire community-powered action and change.

Pittsburgh gas giant EQT Corporation is the United States’ largest producer of fracked natural gas. Among rural communities in northern Appalachia where the company operates, the harsh realities of gas extraction hit home. In Glabicki’s reporting, “Hollowed Out,” exhibited in Photoville 2025, he chronicles four neighboring families who abandoned their homes after experiencing years of symptoms consistent with exposure to airborne volatile organic compounds.

“These issues exist everywhere at some scale. It’s almost expected: illness in proximity to industry.” Photographer and writer Glabicki asks: “How do we document this banality of horror?”

The conversation will explore building trust with underreported communities and responsibly sharing their stories. Glabicki will share how he creatively visualized unseen health issues and pollution, and harnessed the power of local news to draw attention to these communities’ stories.