HEALTH & SAFETY
RESOURCE LISTS:
RTDNA Mental Health Resource Guide
SHARED KNOWLEDGE:
IWMF: Lessons Learned from Journalists Covering Global Pandemics
Dart Center: Learning from Past Pandemics Covering Ebola webinar (archived)
Freedom of the Press Foundation: How journalists can work from home securely
RISK ASSESSMENT:
PPE TRAININGS:
PROTEST SAFETY:
Physical Safety: Civil Disorder - Committee to Protect Journalists
DIGITAL SECURITY:
Programs like 1Password and LastPass can be helpful and are designed to help track and organize passwords between different sites
Consider encrypted communications such as Signal or WhatsApp
Use a VPN while online, for everything from browsing to email to transmitting images. Consider using browsers like DuckDuckGo & TOR
FINANCE & GRIEVANCE PROCESS
For workers who are faced with chasing down payments from bad actors, here are some resources and a list of organizations who will help you take legal action, regardless of direct membership:
RESOURCES:
NPPA: Advocacy Resources
Cislo & Thomas: Copyrights
Getty Image Calculator
Birdy: freelancer-run database on rates and clients for freelancers
FreshBooks: Should you charge late payment fees on invoices?
Pixsy: Fight and find image theft
TRANSPARENCY
Birdy: freelancer-run database on rates and clients for freelancers
PARITY + INCLUSION + BIAS
GUIDES + READING LISTS:
The Photographer’s Guide to Inclusive Photography — Authority Collective + PhotoShelter
Decolonizing Documentary & Journalism — Ligaiya Romero
Storytelling Sovereignty — BEEN Media
A List For Those Considering Diversity When Complacency Wasn't Enough — @PhotoGreenbook
Vision & Justice: A Civic Curriculum — Sarah Lewis + Aperture
HIRE BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Black Women Photographers (Launching Soon)
The Black Shutter Podcast: The Voices of Black Photography — Idris Solomon
Non-Black photographers need to step aside and let Black people tell their own stories. It's the most helpful thing they can do. — Gioncarlo Valentine for INSIDER
The Telling of Black Stories: The Importance of Controlling Our Own Narratives — Gioncarlo Valentine
Why Photo Editors Need to Hire Black Photographers Every Day -- Will Matsuda interviews Danielle Scruggs, Lynsey Weatherspoon, Wale Agboola, & Brent Lewis for Aperture
Over 1000 Black photographers to hire, commission, follow and support — Jyni Ong for It’s Nice That
DATABASES, COLLECTIVES, AGENCIES:
blackwomenphotographers.com (coming soon)
RECENT:
Sonya Childress, “A Reckoning: The Documentary Film Industry Must Chart A New Path Forward”
Black And Brown Indie Producers Press Hollywood For Commitments To End Systemic Racism: Open Letter
ADDITIONAL READING:
Teju Cole, “Getting Others Right”
Sonya Childress, “Beyond Empathy”
Video: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story”
Edwin Martinez, “Navigating the River: The Hidden Colonialism of Documentary”
Neeta Satam, “The Ethics of Seeing”
Teju Cole, When the Camera Was a Weapon of Imperialism. (And When It Still Is.)
Time Magazine’s Cover isn’t Bold or Brave. It’s Exploitative - Kainaz Amaria for VOX
Photography, Colonialism & Racism -- International Affairs Review
Of colonial photographs and cultural resources: The photographic archive of the Sarawak Museum — TransAsia Photography Review
Colonial Photography Across Empires and Islands -- Journal of Transnational American Studies
Sarah Lewis, “The Racial Bias Built Into Photography”
April Zhu, “What Would Photography Look Like If It Were Actually Inclusive?”
Racist Sandwich, ft. Celeste Noche: “What's So Political About Food Photography?”
M Neelika Jayawardane, “The problem with photojournalism and Africa”
Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
James Estrin, “Native American Photographers Unite to Challenge Inaccurate Narratives”
John Anderson, “‘Respect the Feathers’: Who Tells Standing Rock’s Story?”
Tailyr Irvine, “Shooting past stereotypes: Photojournalist challenges expectations with contemporary images”
Strangefire Collective, Educational Resources
JOURNALISM:
How Alexandra Bell is Disrupting Racism in Journalism - The New Yorker
Inequities Among Photojournalists Produce a Familiar Image - Tara Pixley for Newsweek
Why We Need More Visual Journalists and Editors of Color - Tara Pixley for Nieman Reports
Fuck Photojournalism - Clary Estes
“Blind spots: The dangers of unchecked social bias in race and media” - Shaminder Dulai for Everyday Projects
The Western Gaze: On Photojournalism & Challenging Harmful Representations - Tara Pixley for PhotoVoice
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC:
Photos can show protests’ complexity—or they can perpetuate old lies - John Edwin Mason for National Geographic
Susan Goldberg, “For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It”
Kainaz Amaria, “National Geographic’s November cover falls back on a racist cliché”
OTHER:
Why Pigeonholing Marginalized Photographers Limits the Industry
Daniella Zalcman, “Yes, We Can Reach Gender Parity in Photojournalism”
Rikki Byrd, “These Photographers Are Ensuring That Diversity Becomes More Than an Industry Trend”
Allison Stubblebine, “Diversity In Fashion Is Essential—Especially When It Comes To Photographers”
Nikki Barron, “Don’t Tell Us You Can’t Find Diverse Photographers for Your Conference”
Will Matsuda, “Why Aren’t There Any Famous Asian American Photographers?”
CODES OF ETHICS + GUIDES:
DATA:
Everyday Africa’s Exhibition Guidelines