Dispatches - The VII Foundation Magazine
The VII Foundation, David Campbell, Rotem RozentalDispatches is where you will find the best writing on the role of images in our world, along with new and diverse visual stories from around the world. Dispatches is published by The VII Foundation and made possible by our partnership with PhotoWings.
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Photojournalism in the Age of AI: The Importance of the Photographer's Presence
The Book of Veles © Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos - Image generated using 3D modeling software
Generative AI introduced a new feature into photojournalism’s complex operational system: the production of speculative, fictional images of eve...
Postcolonial Perspectives: Vela on Documentary Photography and Transmasculine Visibility in East Africa
Between shadows and light, identity carves its own vivid presence
In Nairobi, Vela makes photographs that insist on being seen. As a documentary photographer and founder of MaschartNBO, a program under the Trans Employment Initiative, Vela...
The Ivory Tower is Gone: A Eulogy for the 'Safe' Journalist in Gaza
‘Journalism is Not a Crime’ written in Arabic calligraphy on the rubble of the destroyed Al-Jalaa Tower © Belal Khaled
In Gaza, memory is not an intellectual luxury; it is a minefield. To understand what is happening today, you must return...
Shape the Future of Dispatches - The VII Foundation Magazine
© Nichole Sobecki
The VII Foundation is committed to in-depth journalism covering the crucial issues of our time. In a world where beliefs and actions are increasingly out-of-sync with facts and realities, our response is to ensure the tr...
Conflict Photography: A Manipulated Reality?
It is said that the first casualty of war is truth. But in war photography, the truth is never simple.
All forms of visual media are vulnerable to being manipulated or ‘weaponized’ in the context of modern conflict. However, the consequenc...
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This profile is the owner of Dispatches: The VII Foundation Magazine, which is edited by David Campbell.
I think about changes in the information economy, political trends, the power of images, what makes for good journalism, and the challenges of visual storytelling. I write when I can, but I wish it was more often.
I am a curator, writer and photo-historian based in Los Angeles, where I serve as the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), write, teach at USC and drink too much coffee
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