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Documentary Photography Workshop in Nepal

March 1-10, 2025

Explore Nepal with William Daniels, a National Geographic photographer from Paris, and Uma Bista, a Nepalese photojournalist in Kathmandu, to learn techniques and skills of visual storytelling while photographing some of the many challenges facing this mountainous nation sandwiched between the high Tibetan Plateau and subtropical northern India.

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2025 ZEKE Award

Now open for submissions

We are happy to announce that we will be giving two separate awards.

1. ZEKE Award for Systemic Change
2. ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography
Each awardee will receive $2,500

Deadline for entries: January 15, 2025

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Photo by Natalya Saprunova. Winner of 2024 ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography.

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