Featuring: Mahdi Barchian, Doug Barrett, Uma Bista, Daniel Buuma, Charlie Cordero, Fatma Fahmy, Leala Faleseuga, Natalia Neuhaus, Alejandra Orosco, Tako Robakidze, and Oleksandr Rupeta
Square Mile is an initiative by VII Community, a program of The VII Foundation, in partnership with PhotoWings. The initiative presents diverse photographic explorations by members of VII Community, a worldwide network of VII Academy alumni, and Foundry Photojournalism Workshop participants.
“Square mile” is a geographic framework, signifying a local focus on spaces where personal, local, and global influences intersect. The projects presented explore how themes such as climate change, identity, history, legacy, migration, gender, and environment appear within a local perspective.
Square Mile aims to inspire conversations on the significance of local stories in a global context and engage the general public in discussions about social issues and the transformative power of photography.
Square Mile by VII Community, in partnership with PhotoWings, will be an ongoing exploration of global communities by the members of our diverse community of visual practitioners.
About the Artists
Alejandra Orosco, Peru
(Lima, 1988) Alejandra Orosco is a communicator and photographer based in the Sacred Valley, Cusco, Peru. She currently works for international media and co-directs Maleza, an Arts Center in Urubamba, Cusco.
Charlie Cordero, Colombia
(Barranquilla, 1990) Based in the Colombian Caribbean, Charlie Cordero focuses on themes of social justice, climate change, and Caribbean traditions. His clients include international press and NGOs.
Daniel Buuma, Democratic Republic of the Congo
(Goma, 1993) Daniel Buuma is a photojournalist based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His work spans various critical subjects, including the environment, society, economy, military conflicts, and culture.
Doug Barrett, USA
(Richmond, VA, 1982) Doug Barrett (400 North Creative) lives and works in Kansas. With his documentary work, he investigates the American social landscape, often focusing on race, class, and cultural identity themes.
Fatma Fahmy, Egypt
(Riyadh, SA, 1992) Fatma Fahmy is an independent visual storyteller based in Cairo, Egypt. Her work focuses on environmental concerns and social issues impacted by environmental changes and human migration.
Leala Faleseuga, New Zealand
(Taitoko (Levin), Aotearoa New Zealand) Leala Faleseuga (Sāmoan, Salelologa / Dutch, Friesland and Limburg, 1985) is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist from Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Mahdi Barchian, Iran
(Gorgan, 1984) Mahdi Barchian is a freelance photographer who lives in Iran and works throughout the Middle East. The main themes he covers are the environment, Iranian society, internal migration, and war refugees.
Natalia Neuhaus, USA
(Lima, PE, 1980) Natalia Neuhaus is a queer photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She sees her camera as a tool for social justice, bringing awareness and visibility to underrepresented issues and communities.
Oleksandr Rupeta, Ukraine
(Kyiv, 1981) Oleksandr Rupeta is a Ukrainian photographer working worldwide who is primarily interested in social anthropology and social conflict.
Tako Robakidze, Georgia
(Tbilisi, 1987) Tako Robakidze is a documentary photographer based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her work is focused on documenting sociopolitical conditions and consequences of war in Georgia and the Caucasus region.
Uma Bista, Nepal
(Kathmandu, 1990) Uma Bista is a photographer who uses her camera to capture powerful visual stories that address gender inequality. Her work explores this issue’s societal, cultural, familial, personal, political, and psychological dimensions.
Organizations
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The VII Foundation
The VII Foundation is committed to in-depth journalism covering the crucial issues of our time. In a world where beliefs and actions are increasingly out of sync with facts and realities, our response is to document the truth to enable communities worldwide to make evidence-based choices about the challenges impacting their lives.
The foundation does this by empowering new voices through education, especially from under-resourced regions where press freedom is limited and journalists are vulnerable. It trains practitioners to cover their local communities and global problems and produces large-scale and long-term documentary projects that advocate change and detail solutions. It brings new and neglected perspectives to the public agenda and hosts conversations campaigning for a diverse, safe, and viable profession, especially for freelancers worldwide.
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VII Community
VII Community provides ongoing education and support to a network of VII Academy alumni and Foundry Photojournalism Workshop participants numbering more than 1,000 professionals. VII Community members are connected to the profession through online discussions, presentations, reviews, in-person global meet-ups, and a Discord platform for regular exchanges. VII Community is a program of The VII Foundation in partnership with PhotoWings.
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PhotoWings
We’re honored to continue our partnership with Photoville for our 9th consecutive year, and to celebrate Photoville’s 14th edition! Each year Photoville provides so many rich, unique, and diverse experiences in and around photography–PhotoWings is thrilled to help enrich this community as Education Partners.
PhotoWings believes that photography has the power to influence the world. As such, we invest in strategic collaborations and programs that help make photography better understood, created, utilized, seen and saved. We also maintain an archive with hundreds of hours of original interviews and partner presentations from both within and outside the photo world, as well as curricula, tool kits, resources and community engagement activities. Ultimately, we believe that meaningful engagement with photography can foster deep thinking, communication and help people better understand and navigate the world.
The PhotoWings Outreach Program and our extensive media archive have myriad educational applications and possibilities, including projects from partners that cross disciplines, generations, and cultures. We also create toolkits/curricula for replication, adaptation and/or inspiration.
PhotoWings has partnered to document the Photoville Talks for the past five years, to expand the ways the global community can be a part of these important dialogues. Explore the collection of Photoville Talks today!
Be sure to check out all the Photoville Resources that have been supported in partnership with PhotoWings
And for more information about PhotoWings, you can visit http://photowings.org/
Square Mile
Featuring: Various Artists
Curated by: Ron Haviv Suzie Katz Nika Perne
Locations
ON VIEW AT: Truss Banner 37
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