non-exhaustive list of equity in the digital media industry: databases, anti-racist reports, & inclusive photographer work

↓ TAKE ACTION

Authority Collective’s Inclusive Photography Guide – Get the PDF workbook by PhotoShelter x Authority Collective

Sign the Photo Bill of Rights – “The Photo Bill of Rights is a call to action, a guide, and an ethical code. The Photo Bill of Rights gives an opportunity to recognize the problems within our industry and act to solve them.”

↓ READING + WATCHING

Anti-Racism for beginners – Tiffany Bowden, PHD in Diversity and Inclusion

For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies – 2017

Decolonization Is for Everyone | Nikki Sanchez | TEDxSFU – 2019

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Reports – National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, University of Manitoba

JEB’s Archive of Lesbian Photography -Sophie Hackett for Aperture, 2021

What Sexual Harassment Looks Like for Freelance Photographers, and What You Can Do – 2018

↓ ON MY NIGHTSTAND:

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

DATABASE LINKS

Diversify Photo
“A community of BIPOC and non-western photographers, editors, and visual producers working to break with the predominantly colonial and patriarchal eye through which history and the mass media has seen and recorded the images of our time.”

Indigenous Photograph
“A space to elevate the work of Indigenous visual journalists and bring balance to the way we tell stories about Indigenous people and spaces.”

RECLAIM Photo
“An alliance of The Everyday Projects, Native, Majority World, Women Photograph, and Minority Report: five organizations committed to amplifying the voices of underrepresented photographers and decolonizing the photojournalism industry.”

Authority Collective
“Empowering marginalized artists
with resources and community,
and to take action against
systemic and individual abuses
in the world of lens-based
editorial, documentary and commercial
visual work.”

The Lit List (taking hiatus until 2024)
“Committed to recognizing and awarding the outstanding work of photographers who are womxn, femmes, trans, non-binary people of colour, and otherwise marginalized artists.”

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“The Photo Bill of Rights is important to me because as a queer white photographer, I believe in absolute equity in every industry, especially the freelance community where there are so many creatives who are self-employed and do not feel like they have to uphold to any social standard. I want to do what I can within my work to hold space for and lift up minority voices in my community online and in life.

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