(7 of 7) Join us in our mission to train the next generation of journalists. Your support can make a difference. Help ensure the resilience of our work by subscribing to our newsletter, joining our events, and, if you can, supporting our scholarships.

(6 of 7) There is no freedom in countries without press freedom. #WorldPressFreedomDay #PressFreedom #WPFD2024

(5 of 7) Journalism is protected by laws in democracies and not in autocracies; leaders who threaten our freedoms try to shut down, kill, and imprison journalists. #WPFD2024

(4 of 7) Journalists hold those who govern to account on behalf of those who are governed; they investigate dark corners to seek out injustice, hypocrisy, corruption, and many other sicknesses in society. Some truths are uncomfortable, but they are necessary to confront.

(3 of 7) .. it is important to remind ourselves just why press freedom is essential to all of us, and why the absence of it is an existentialist threat. #WorldPressFreedomDay #onthisday #PressFreedom #WPFD2024

(2 of 7) While it is painful to contemplate what press freedom really means when journalists around the world are being killed and imprisoned in unprecedented numbers.. #WorldPressFreedomDay #onthisday #PressFreedom #WPFD2024

(1 of 7) May 3rd is #WorldPressFreedomDay.

800+ journalists and media workers demand an end to the killing of journalists in Gaza and the wider region. For more information on how to sign on and get involved, visit: https://t.co/JO4ubgbyVI @4ourcolleagues #thismuststop

@vii_foundation is made up of its #educational programs (@VIIAcademy, VII Community, and VII Insider), as well as the foundation’s long-form, #visualjournalism #projects, and the newly acquired @VIIPhoto. Are you #following our other accounts?

This week on VII Insider: "Four Questions on #Photography: Ilvy Njiokiktjien in Conversation with @PaoloManzo2" VII Insider #events are #online, #free of charge, and #open to all. 📸 : Paolo Manzo 📅 : November 2, 2023. 12:00 EDT https://t.co/Bx67PtFhkh @VIIAcademy @photowings

{Live #event} Exodus—#American #Migrations, with @nicolo_rosso. Tues, July 18, at 12:00 - 13:00 EST on VII Insider 📅 : https://t.co/NOW9QLiPBS 📸 : Nicoló Filippo Rosso __ VII Insider is a program of @vii_foundation in partnership with @PhotoWings #visualjournalism

"See Through the Noise" by @VIIPhoto opens in #Arles Including epic scenes like the battle for Dyala Bridge in Iraq & intimate moments like an American man working on his truck, the collection represents the broad range of issues covered by VII photographers. 📸 : Ulysse Fiévé

The Alexandra Boulat Campus of @VIIAcademy in #Arles will be closed on Mon Jul. 8. It will be open 1100-1800 Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat this week. Closed for Bastille Day on Thur. #vii

{Vernissage} "See Through the Noise"—the 1st collective #exhibition by @VIIPhoto opened at The Alexandra Boulat Campus in #Arles with #VII photographers and the graduating Level Three @VIIAcademy cohort in attendance. Now #open from 11 am - 6 pm 49 Quai de la Roquette, Arles

See Through the Noise—July 6 in #Arles 📸 Nichole Sobecki/VII After washing clothes in a roadside puddle, a woman walks home through a parched field in drought-stricken Somaliland. A changing, more extreme climate has upended millions of lives in the Horn of Africa. April 6, 2016

"See Through the Noise"—the 1st collective #exhibition by @VIIPhoto in #Arles, July 6 Maggie Steber/VII Mother’s Funeral: A young Haitian man writhes in grief at the funeral of his mother in Haiti’s National Cemetery as his family and friends try to hold him back from the coffin.

“See Through the Noise,” the first collective #exhibition by @VIIPhoto photographers in #Arles — Opening at The Alexandra Boulat Campus in one week July 6, 2023 11 am – 6 pm 49 Quai de la Roquette, Arles arles@vii.academy https://t.co/rEr5ApFomY #theviifoundation #viiphoto

{Live #event} #Ask Us Anything, with David Campbell and Ilvy Njiokiktjien — Tuesday, June 27, at 12:00 - 13:00 EDT on VII Insider w/ @PhotoWings Bring your #questions to the event or send them via email to vii-insider@theviifoundation.org #register:

{Final Call} VII #Mentor #Program 2023 — Less than 1 week left until the application deadline on June 27, 23:59 EDT Selected mentees will receive guidance from a @VIIPhoto member & participate in expert sessions on critical topics https://t.co/iTgKjq75po 📸: Kimberly dela Cruz

📸 : Maciek Nabrdalik/ VII. Refugees from Syria rest on the coast of the Greek island of Lesbos. Thousands of refugees cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey in rubber boats every day, fleeing conflict in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Lesbos, Greece, September 24, 2015.