Trinity College Fellows in Photography 2025

Trinity and U of T college students are invited to take part in a two-day visible story telling workshop with famend photographer James Rodriguez, an award-winning México-U.S. documentary photographer and filmmaker. Presented by Trinity College Fellows in Photography, the workshop is hosted by Professor Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Trinity’s Dean of Arts & Vice-Provost, in partnership with Latin American Studies on the University of Toronto.

The Visual Storytelling Workshop intends to offer college students with an introduction to James Rodriguez’s work, the problems he covers, and examples of his work. The aim is to study sequencing idea, framing, and the way greatest to edit content material to transmit a message. Images that members take will likely be reviewed leading to an optimum edit of 10 photographs that may present essentially the most highly effective choice and sequence of pictures to inform the story photographed by every scholar.

James Rodriguez is a Guatemala-based documentary photographer from Southern California and primarily based in Guatemala. With 20 years of expertise, James’ work focuses on post-war processes, human rights points, migration, local weather change, land tenure and social conflicts in Mexico and Central America. James has been printed and/or accomplished assignments for the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Le Monde, New York Times, NPR, Vogue, The Guardian, Toronto Star, amongst others, and has collaborated with quite a few Human Rights NGOs, together with Amnesty International Canada. In 2020, James acquired a National Geographic Society COVID emergency grant. Prizes embrace first place within the 2015 POY Latin America within the “story with a phone camera” class and is a recipient of Mexico’s National System for Art Creators (SNCA) grant. His 2024 photobook Land of Trees paperwork 20 years of social conflicts and territorial resistance to extractive initiatives inside the context of the delicate post-war processes in Guatemala. James holds a BA in Cultural Geography from UCLA (1996). More info on his work may be discovered at mimundo.org and on Instagram @mimundo_org.