- Join Focus on the Story today at 4:00 p.m. for a panel discussion with Black photojournalists and photo editors on their experiences covering the national reckoning on race and justice, their role and responsibility in documenting these historic events, and why it’s critical that Black photographers be front and center in telling this story.
- Earlier this week, Authority Collective, Color Positive, Diversify Photo, The Everyday Projects, Juntos Photo Coop, the National Press Photographers Association, Natives Photograph, and Women Photograph announced the launch of the Photo Bill of Rights—a call to action, guide, ethical code, and framework for lens-based workers globally.
- The Pulitzer Center and Diversify Photo are administering a series of reporting grants for freelance photojournalists to support underreported stories told by journalists historically underrepresented in the American press. Grants will be awarded at $1,000 each, and the application is open through July 19, 2020.
- The Washington Post is seeking a staff photojournalist who will conceive, research, and develop assignments related to issues of race and identity. Applicants need to submit a resume, cover letter, and a portfolio link or PDF by July 6 for consideration.
- Four photographers shared their photos from the Juneteenth Million Moe March with BYT.
- Last Saturday’s 20 photographs of the week selected by The Guardian capture scenes from around the world including the return of soccer, the impact of COVID-19, and Black Lives Matter protests.
- Xapiri, a Cusco-based art gallery and media production studio, is working to raise awareness of the situation facing indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest as they face the pandemic as well as funds to help them navigate it.
- Fstoppers asks readers, “What’s the worst photography advice you’ve ever been given?”
- After 84 years, Olympus announced it is leaving the camera business.