Welcome to The Essentials, a series of online classes for photographers presented by The Everyday Projects + Black Women Photographers. These online classes will take place once a week from May 5 to June 2 with instructors Kiana Hayeri, Andrea Wise, Nicky Woo, Danielle Villasana, and Yagazie Emezi. Each class is 75 minutes and will include a Q&A.

In this session, Andrea Wise will deconstruct a couple of published stories to demystify how stories come to be from the editor’s perspective. She will talk about story origination, including assignment work and stories pitched by photographers, getting ideas and budgets approved, creative planning/art direction, working visually in harmony with text, selecting and sequencing images, and laying out stories for publication. You will learn more about what visual editors do, how to get on their radar, how best to work with them on assignment, and how to maximize the chances of getting your pitches picked up.

These Webinars are free, but we'd love it if you made a $5 donation to Black Women Photographers to help us continue our mission in supporting Black women and non-binary photographers globally.

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