| Welcome to CatchLight News, a monthly newsletter for people who believe in the power of images as tools for information and connection. This month we feature 2024 CatchLight Global Fellow, Harlan Bozeman, a photographer, artist, and educator whose research-driven practice confronts the erasure of Black culture and histories and investigating the legacies of slavery and its aftermath in the American South.“…what really shocked me was the amount of misinformation within newspapers all around the country, but especially in the south.”“Surface-level, what you’re going to find out about Elaine is the 1919 massacre, which occurred during the Red Summer of 1919, where you had racial violence all throughout the country,” Bozeman told us. “But what really shocked me was the amount of misinformation within newspapers all around the country, but especially in the South.” Watch the interview Related: Harlan Bozeman announced among 30 winners of the 2024 Creator Labs Photo Fund by Google and Aperture. Photojournalist Andrea Bruce has good news for her North Carolina neighbors  Via Down in the County on InstagramVeteran war photographer Andrea Bruce joined the CatchLight community as a Global Fellow in 2018 when she was shifting her focus from conflicts abroad to the political divide in the U.S. The ”Our Democracy” project brought Bruce back to her hometown in North Carolina, where she saw an opportunity to bridge the divisions locally through reliable visual journalism. Bruce launched Down in the County, a visual newsletter that serves the residents of Pamlico County, and with support from CatchLight as its first Senior Local Fellow and a recent grant from the Press Forward philanthropic initiative, Bruce is hiring local storytellers to help grow the publication. Watch our recent interview with Andrea Bruce →Related: Andrea Bruce to deliver keynote at Night of Photojournalism in Paris. View the full program → NOV. 9 • PARIS, FRANCE Night of Photojournalism Close out the week of Paris Photo with a unique celebration of photojournalism. This live event hosted by Fondation Carmignac, CatchLight, and Dysturb, in partnership with PhotoSaintGermain, includes presentations by industry leaders, a showcase of images by hundreds of photographers from around the world, and the opening reception for the 2025 CatchLight Global Fellowship. Admission is free with RSVP. Artist Alexandra Bell shows West Virginia journalists how to ‘reimagine’ local news  “A Teenager With Promise” – Counternarrative public art project, 2017. © Alexandra BellAcclaimed artist Alexandra Bell was awarded the 2019 CatchLight Global Fellowship in support of her work to deconstruct the language and imagery that form popular media narratives. For her “Counternarratives” project, Bell donned her editor’s cap to highlight choices that are made—and approved—in mainstream news that send into mass consciousness ideas that are often riddled with the implicit biases of their authors and editors.At a recent roundtable on “Reimagining Local Journalism” in Charleston, West Virginia, Bell was invited to share her perspective with local-news representatives from across the state. “Sometimes, something can be fact, even when it’s not true,” she told the roomful of journalists. “There’s sometimes a way that information is constructed that leads to dishonesty.”Learn more: Watch Alexandra Bell’s keynote at the 2019 Nat Geo Summit → The application for the 2025 CatchLight Global Fellowship launches on Saturday, Nov. 9 during the Night of Photojournalism. Three visionary storytellers will be awarded $30,000 grants and opportunities for personal development and partnerships to increase their impact. Stay subscribed to get an alert when the application goes live. Help us spread the word: Forward this email to the photographers in your network. If you enjoyed this content, here are a few ways you can support CatchLight: Forward to a friend Donate now |
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