Join more than 15 photojournalists from the prestigious agency VII Photo for a half-day seminar on photojournalism at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

The seminar will be split into three panel discussions with opportunities to ask questions and learn more about the work of VII and the state of modern photojournalism.

9:00 Keynote address 

Director and Founder of the Frontline Club Vaughan Smith 

9:30 The Creation of VII – The role of photojournalism in the 21st century

With Ron Haviv, Christopher Morris, Seamus Murphy and Franco Pagetti. Moderated by Max Houghton.

11:00 Photographic Education: Finding your way

With Ashley Gilbertson, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight and Anastasia Taylor-Lind. Moderated by Paul Lowe.

12:30 The New Economy: How to fund your projects

With Venetia Dearden, Ed Kashi, Tomas van Houtryve, Jon Jones (The Sunday Times),  Gary Knight and Donald Weber. Moderated by Stephen Mayes.

14:00 Book signing of Questions Without Answers – The World in Pictures by the Photographers of VII and more.

The seminar will be followed by portfolio reviews with eight VII Photo photographers. More details on how to book a portfolio review are available here.

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It has been a while since I wrote here the last time… I apologize for the long silence (not that I really hope that you’ve really noticed – but I have been sort of ashamed that I abandoned my blog here for ages…) well, anyway, I’m back.

Back – and have a question for you. I would really appreciate if you brainstorm on the topic above, what could emergency workers do to help reporters cover tragedies and conflicts? What would you like them to do or not to do so that it would be a tandem not a Pushmi-Pullyu?

I’m giving a seminar for young / future emergency workers and plan to talk with them about trauma and trauma coverage.

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To fill the gap between my rare posts I’ll report that this summer I conducted a series of seminars on stress and trauma for journalists and editors of the Russian Information Agency "Novosti" (News), one of the largest news agencies in Russia. It was very interesting – for me, and hopefully for my participants. At least we had fun writing down our stressors at work – and finding out that we love our job for the same reasons we hate it (lack of time means fast flow of diverse information – not boring; multitasking causes stress sometimes but also makes you feel important and responsible, etc. etc. etc.)

Here are some pictures:

Looking forward to your input, and thanks in advace!

Olga.