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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VOA Interviews Everyday Africa Co-founders
In a newly published interview with Voice of America, Austin Merrill and Peter DiCampo discuss...
January 2, 2018 -
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Everyday Africa Founders Visit Schools Across All Eight Wards of DC
“There is an element to this of feeling like we’ve come full circle,” Peter DiCampo told the crowd...
December 27, 2017 -
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Pulitzer Center Leads Workshops for DC Public School Teachers
The Pulitzer Center led workshops on the Everday DC and Empathy Gap units at the visual arts...
October 31, 2017 -
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Celebrating the 2nd Annual DCPS Study Abroad Photography Contest
The finalists of the DCPS Study Abroad Photo Contest attended a reception at the Pulitzer Center...
October 10, 2017 -
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Sean Gallagher Launches "Everyday Extinction" Instagram Project
Grantee Sean Gallagher launches a new Instagram project highlighting the current biodiversity...
October 6, 2017 -
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Founders of Everyday Africa Highlight Growth at Pulitzer Center Event
Journalists and Pulitzer Center grantees Peter DiCampo and Austin Merrill presented their ongoing...
October 4, 2017