Photography and Community with Daniella Zalcman
Photography and Community with Daniella Zalcman
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 15th, 7 pm ET
Daniella Zalcman is an award-winning documentary photographer whose career has incorporated community and representation through her work as a co-founder of Women Photograph, Indigenous Photograph, and We, Women (where she is also the creative director), a member of Authority Collective and Diversify Photo and a co-author of the Photo Bill of Rights. Her focus on community creates space for under-represented voices in the photographic community and asks questions about whose stories are told and by whom.
Please join us for an engaging conversation with Daniella about her photography, which often focuses on the legacies of western colonialism. Together we will explore why community is essential in developing our photographic practices and how it impacts the stories we tell through photographs.
Daniella Zalcman is a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer based in New Orleans, LA. She is a 2021 Catchlight Fellow, a multiple grantee of the National Geographic Society and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation, and the founder of Women Photograph, a nonprofit working to elevate the voices of women and nonbinary visual journalists.
Her ongoing project, Signs of Your Identity, is the recipient of the Arnold Newman Prize, a Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award, the FotoEvidence Book Award, the Magnum Foundation's Inge Morath Award, and part of Open Society Foundation's Moving Walls 24. You can find her work in National Geographic Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Mashable, BuzzFeed, TIME, The New York Times, and elsewhere.
Daniella regularly lectures at high schools and universities, and was a visiting professor at Wake Forest University from 2018-2020 and the 2022 T. Anthony Pollner Distinguished Professor at the University of Montana. She is a member of the board of trustees of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, the board of directors of the ACOS Alliance, and the board of governors of the Overseas Press Club. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in architecture in 2009.
