Peter DiCampo is a Visuals Editor at ProPublica. His editing and art direction have been awarded by the National Press Photographers Association, the Society for News Design, The Society of Publication Designers, and the Online Journalism Awards. Before turning to editing, he worked for more than a decade as a freelance photojournalist, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, with publications in National Geographic, The New York Times, Time, and many more. He was a 2019 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, and he is the recipient of grants and awards from Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Code for Africa, Magnum Foundation, Open Society Foundations, PhotoWings, Pictures of the Year International, and the Pulitzer Center, among others. DiCampo is a co-founder of Everyday Africa, a collective of photographers using social media to broaden coverage of Africa beyond the headlines, and The Everyday Projects, a global community of photographers and visual literacy nonprofit. He is a co-author of the photo book Everyday Africa: 30 Photographers Re-Picturing a Continent and the graphic novel Flying Kites: A Story of the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strike.
Trump officials eradicated the world’s largest humanitarian agency, slashing thousands of lifesaving programs and putting millions at risk. ProPublica reporters and photographers showed that even as senior officials cut these programs, they had been warned that people would die.
Learn MoreSince the @everydayafrica feed launched on Instagram two years ago, the concept has grown into a global movement of photographers using daily-life imagery to fight stereotypes on a community, city, country, or continent level: from @everydaybronx to @everydayasia, from @everydaylatinamerica to @everydayiran, from @everydayusa to @everydayeasterneurope, and dozens more.
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