As part of the Fund’s Education and Awareness program, our work focuses on support for photography and photojournalism programs for youth that bring together three aspects: education, awareness, and mentoring. We support work in communities that are often underrepresented in newsrooms and in journalism. We believe in the strength of local partnerships with organizations that share our mission. One such partnership is with UPI’s Photoville, which provides an accessible annual venue for photographers and audiences from every walk of life to engage with each other, and experience thought-provoking photography from across the globe – with free admission for all. In the Public Eye highlights past exhibitions featuring the Fund’s awardees.
HOW DO YOU READ A PHOTOGRAPH?
PHOTOVILLE, NYC, 2023
Our lives are filled with images. They’re everywhere, all the time — entertaining us, selling to us, informing us. How often do you make the effort to not just look at a photo, but rather look into it, asking yourself, “What is this photo doing, and how is it doing it?” This exhibition provides tools and questions to better understand photographs by engaging in this type of close reading.
Where Do We Go From Here?
Photoville, NYC, 2020
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?
Chris Hondros
Testament at Photoville LA
Testament is a collection of photographs and writing by late photojournalist Chris Hondros spanning over a decade of coverage from most of the world’s conflicts since the late 1990s, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Liberia, Kosovo, and Libya.
A Persisting Witness
Photoville, NYC, 2019
The Chris Hondros Fund (CHF) has awarded these photojournalists for their work documenting stories that bring shared human experiences into the public eye with a compassionate lens. As attacks on the press intensify at an alarming rate, CHF believes more than ever in supporting photojournalists who remain diligent and continue to report on issues critical to our world, inform the public, and defend press freedom. A Persisting Witness hopes to show the vital role photojournalists play, often at great personal risk, in securing our access to stories that might go otherwise unnoticed or unreported.