VII Photo Agency
VII is a storied photo agency founded a few days before 9/11 to challenge the convergence in the photography business when the trend for giant companies swallowing smaller independent agencies started. VII went small and photographer-owned, believing in the power and energy of collective effort when everyone else seemed to be going big and corporate. VII remains a disruptive and innovative business unafraid to swim against the prevailing currents.
VII has turned its gaze far from the frontline of its foundation. It has earned a reputation for uncompromising photography immersed in the great issues of today. VII photographers and filmmakers are as likely to be found focusing on race, gender and identity as they are on migration or conflict. Amplifying local voices and addressing the complex political, environmental, and social questions facing families everywhere, VII places great value in the power of images to tell important stories. The members of VII are motivated by issues and are proud to elevate those issues above the cult of the image or the cult of the photographer.
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Photojournalism and responsible storytelling in todays world with Ron Haviv
This workshop explores multi-faceted approaches to photojournalism and helps guide you on your own path. What does it mean to…
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Visual storytelling and human rights with Ed Kashi
As with most of Ed Kashi’s work, the ultimate goal is to learn how to find a subject you are…
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PRIVATE 57 | INQUIRY – special VII photo agency
It’s common to hear photojournalists described as the eyes of the world, acting as witnesses to events that we would…
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Davide Monteleone | Red Thistle
This project explores the extraordinary and unknown daily life of the people here. The breaking news and the geopolitical interest…
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Maciek Nabrdalik | Faith
For more than a thousand years, the Catholic Church has been interwoven into Poland’s cultural and political fabric, occupying a…
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Anastasia Taylor-Lind | The National Womb
In 2008, Nagorno-Karabakh’s de facto government introduced the Birth Encouragement Program, which distributes cash payments to newlyweds for each baby…
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Donald Weber | Interrogations
This work interrogates the interrogators. Without confessions and guilty pleas, courts everywhere would grind to a halt in an instant…
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Jocelyn Bain Hogg | The Family
There are few plastic gangsters in these pages. The exhibitionism of the late 90s has given way to realism, the…
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Tomas van Houtryve | Behind the Curtains
Over the course of seven years, award-winning documentary photographer Tomas van Houtryve secured unprecedented access to North Korea, Cuba, China,…
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Marcus Bleasdale | Lord’s Resistance Army
The rebel Lord’s Resistance Army and Joseph Kony, its messianic leader, have waged a campaign of massacres, torture, and abduction…
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Ashley Gilbertson | 100% Wall Street
Occupiers represented hundreds of different causes, though their overarching frustrations lay with economic inequality and corporate greed.
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Seamus Murphy | What Sustains the Revolution?
The network is the arterial core of the Syrian revolution and the main target for Assad in his efforts to…
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Gary Knight | InmigraciĂ³n Topografia: The Incineration of Migrant Dreams
This is a story about migration, the illegal migration of thousands of men, women and children from Central and South…
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Stefano De Luigi | Kenya Drought
Kenya is facing a devastating drought, the worst in the last decade. Parts of the country haven't seen a drop…
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Lynsey Addario | Mississippi Health Care
Nowhere is the American Health Care System more broken and desperate than rural Mississippi.
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Ed Kashi | Madagascar
Images of the dignified and vibrant people of Southeast Madagascar offer a cross-examination of the intricate ties that bind all…
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Adam Ferguson | Myanmar in Transition
After 15 years under house arrest, the Nobel Peace laureate and leader of the National League for Democracy, Ms. Aung…
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PRIVATE 31 | HUMANITY – special VII Photo Agency
VII derives its name from the number of founding photo-journalists who, in September 2001, formed this collectively owned agency. Designed…