Project September 16, 2014
Everyday Africa: Pulitzer Center Education Programming
Everyday Africa, a collection of images shot on mobile phones across the continent, is an attempt to re-direct focus toward a more accurate understanding of what the majority of Africans experience on a day-to-day basis: normal life. Conceived by Peter DiCampo and Austin Merrill, and featuring numerous contributing photographers, the project is a response to the common media portrayal of the African continent as a place consumed by war, poverty, and disease. As journalists who are native to Africa or have lived and worked on the continent for years at a time, we find the extreme is not nearly as prevalent as the familiar, the everyday.
-Everyday Africa website
The Pulitzer Center is supporting education programming and website development around the Everyday Africa project. Working with Everyday Africa founders and Pulitzer Center grantee journalists Austin Merrill and Peter DiCampo, the Center is leading multimedia workshops, classroom sessions and professional development discussions around the project and the broader visual and cultural literacy questions that drive it.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Bill Gates Cites Everyday Africa as Top Reason to Be Hopeful About Africa’s Future
Everyday Africa was highlighted by both Bill Gates and The New York Times for their work that...
January 12, 2017 -
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DC Study Abroad Students Participate in Photography Contest
DC Public Schools students gathered for a reception with photojournalist Tomas van Houtryve on...
October 18, 2016 -
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Pulitzer Center Journalists on Atlantic's 'Roughly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism'
"Everyday Africa" and other Pulitzer Center grantees included in the Atlantic's Roughly Top 100 non...
July 24, 2015 -
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"Everyday D.C." Student Exhibition Online
The Inspired Teaching School students' "Everyday D.C." exhibition goes virtual.
January 27, 2015 -
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An "Everyday" Exhibition
Fifth and sixth-graders from a D.C. public charter school show and discuss their photography in the...
January 27, 2015 -
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Everyday D.C. Workshop 3: A Video Chat About Photography
Our group of "Everyday D.C." students Skype with Everyday Africa co-founder Peter DiCampo.
January 22, 2015