Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a photo book or zine from start to finish? With our panel of photographers and designers, we will be presenting the ins and outs of the birth of a photo book.
Leveling Up is a web series to create pathways for freelancing visual storytellers to become successful in the photography industry. With workshops that talk about the art of the side hustle, creating collectives, and understanding contracts, these discussions and presentations from all-star and up-and-coming photographers are designed to guide members of our photographic community toward growth and success in their careers.
The workshops are especially geared towards BIPOC photographers and are open to photographers anywhere in the world. We are here to support BIPOC and non-Western photographers to have successful careers.
SPEAKERS
GABRIELLA ANGOTTI-JONES
Gabriella Angotti-Jones is a documentary photographer based in Los Angeles, CA. One of Artsy’s emerging photo journalists to watch, Gabriella uses her editorial background to inform her imagery, focusing on found light, intimate, storytelling moments and graphic compositions. Her documentary work focuses on the intersection of race, identity, and environmental justice.
She was previously a staff photographer at the LA Times and has worked at papers across the country including The San Francisco Chronicle, Tampa Bay Times, Las Vegas Review-Journal, and The New York Times.
ORIANA KOREN
Oriana Koren is an artist-researcher-speculatist working at the intersection of language and optical technologies.
Their photography and writing centers the perspectives of colonized people and historically exploited communities, and, for the last decade, they have worked to dismantle revisionist histories around the cultural contributions African descendants have made in building American culture.
Oriana is a founding member of the Authority Collective, founder and curator of the Lit List, and currently a member of the Candor Collective.
MATTHEW AUSTIN
Matthew Austin is an artist, publisher, and bookbinder based in Los Angeles.
GABRIELA HASBUN
Working mainly in editorial photography specializing in portraits, Hasbun finds much of her inspiration by simply paying attention to what surrounds her in “the streets, talking to people, and listening to stories on the radio”. These influences are reflected in the subjects she chooses to focus her series on; from the streets in San Francisco, to the modern rodeo, to an editorial story about fat activists in the Bay Area. Hasbun and her camera have captured a little bit of everything.
MODERATOR
DAVID M. BARREDA
David M. Barreda is a visual editor, multimedia producer, curator, and journalist based in Oakland, California. He is currently a senior photo editor at National Geographic and a core team member of Diversify Photo.
Previously, David was a photo editor at Earthjustice, a founding editor at Topic, and a founding editor for ChinaFile where he launched the Abigail Cohen Fellowship in Documentary Photography in collaboration with the Magnum Foundation.
He has more than 20 years of visual journalism experience and prior to editing, he worked as a staff photojournalist at the San Jose Mercury News, the Rocky Mountain News, the Valley News, the Tallahassee Democrat, and the Herald of Randolph. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where he received his Master’s degree, and of Middlebury College, where he majored in Geography and Environmental Studies.
Born in southern Peru and raised on a sheep farm in Vermont, David lives with his partner, their 11-year-old daughter, and Dandelion, a poodle-terrier, Covid-adoptee, rescue dog.