Photoville NYC 2020: Where Do We Go From Here?
When it is the photojournalist’s job to document the world’s news events? What happens when a new, deadly disease spreads across the world and threatens nearly everyone and everything—including the photographer?
What should photojournalists say with their cameras during a time of unprecedented uncertainty and crisis? Do they look outwards or inwards? How does living in increasing isolation impact the work that they make?
For photographers whose work is deeply rooted in connection to shared human experiences, what does sensitive storytelling look like in the era of Covid-19?
Over the last nine years, the Chris Hondros Fund (CHF) has awarded grants and fellowships to photojournalists who have compassionately documented some of the most important stories of our time, from Venezuela’s unrest and Liberia’s Ebola crisis, to environmental issues in the United States and China. In 2020 and beyond, the story is how we pick up the pieces from a global pandemic that has left the world with a dramatic loss of life and livelihood. CHF posed these two questions to three photojournalists: In 2020, what did you see? Where do we go from here?