Hi there, Jovelle from Seattle here! I hope everyone is safe and healthy, whether you're on assignment or at home.
1. News Photographer Magazine: Independent photographer Karen Ducey writes about how many of us got into photojournalism because we wanted to do some good and use our visual storytelling skills to make the world a better place. She talked to several photographers and editors who continue to adapt.

Above, Richard Ray Whitman of the Yuchi Nation, poses for a portrait at the Frontline Oil & Gas Conference, an indigenous-led environmental organizing summit held in Ponca City, Okla., one of America’s most intense oil and gas extraction zones. While the area is home to fracking towers, oil refineries, fracking-induced earthquakes, and billion-dollar corporations, during the conference, it was also home to a growing resistance. 250 people from indigenous, frontline, and grassroots groups gathered to have ceremony, learn lessons, and make friendships. Whitman, a long-time activist, had this advice for the younger participants, “Use your art as activism. I was at Wounded Knee in 1973, and my first gun was a Pentax camera. Every generation has their time, so find yours and join.” Photo by Chris Jordan-Bloch, for Earthjustice.

2. NPPA Advocacy joined an amicus brief filed by the First Amendment Coalition urging a federal judge to block a Fresno, Calif., ordinance that impermissibly restricts the press and public's ability to observe and document sweeps of homeless encampments.
3. Upcoming events: 

  • The Catchlight Visual Storytelling Summit is happening next week on April 19 and 20, in-person in San Francisco and online. From Catchlight: "Hear from artists, founders, technologists and innovative creatives working at the nexus of art, media, journalism, technology and social impact." Register here. 



  • Multimedia Immersion is in Syracuse, NY, May 17-21. If you signed up for the canceled 2020 pre-COVID workshop, you will receive $100 off your registration. The code for the discount is posted on check-out when you register. 


  • The News Video Workshop is June 19-24 in Norman, Oklahoma. If you signed up in 2020 — pre-COVID — the registration page has details for you.


6. Opportunities:

  • Two days left to apply for The Kalish visual editing workshop! The deadline is April 15. Scholarships are available. Here are tips for the application process.


  • The Curve Foundation is launching a new funding opportunity beginning Friday through April 30. The Curve Award is a grant to support emerging journalists who identify as lesbians, queer women, trans women and/or nonbinary people and are based in the United States.



  • Students, apply for a paid internship with the Freedom of the Press Foundation in New York or remote this summer and fall.

  • Applications for Women Photograph's 2022 project grants for women & nonbinary photographers are due May 15. These $5,000 grants will support photography projects — either new or in progress — from visual journalists working in a documentary capacity. Seven grants are available, at least one of which will be earmarked for a nonbinary or transgender photographer.

  • Diversify Photo is accepting applications for its Inclusion Grant. The Deadline is May 15.

  • Getty Images announced $85K in new editorial grants to support photojournalists and organizations, with an emphasis on supporting photographers whose work shines a light on important issues of our time. These initiatives include a grant for editorial photography covering "Forced Displacement," a grant for educational photography programs and the above-mentioned Inclusion Grants in partnership with Women Photograph and Diversify Photo.



  • The Eddie Adams Workshop, Oct. 7–10, which typically accepts students and professionals with up to five years of professional experience, will accept applications from folks with less than six this year. Apply before May 31.

  • "WideOpen: Excellence in Photography" is accepting entries through June 30. Produced by The Dairy Barn Arts Center with support from the Ohio University School of Visual Communication, the jury for the 2022 show will select photographs of all genres to curate an exhibit of contemporary excellence in photography.
7. Is @analog_nft_lordz our industry's Lady Whistledown? You can try to solve the mystery of their true identity…or just enjoy the funny photo memes. 

8. Consider supporting: 

  • Smita Sharma's Kickstarter for her photo book, "We Cry in Silence," includes photos and testimonies of victims and survivors of sex trafficking.

  • Photographer Annie Tritt has suffered permanent eye damage due to a surgery error. Help them get through this incredibly difficult time by donating via GoFundMe. 


9. I'm always inspired by how photographer Andrea Morales models care and intention. An excerpt from her interview on Focus LGBT: "Stories had their ability to transport us to all these different places, and photojournalism seemed to have the most exciting way to embody the role of the storyteller. While making journalism is still a huge part of what I do, my relationship with photography has expanded and contracted in so many ways over the years. Photography sits on a razor's edge between creating meaningful representation and causing profound harm. Storytelling now feels like a responsibility we have to each other. I try to treat photography as a delicate, emotional and democratic vernacular."

10. #SomeGoodNews: Fake boy bands *do* have the best songs! My inner tween can't get enough of this feel-good jam by 4★Town from Pixar's "Turning Red." 

Ingat lagi,
Jovelle 
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