Community team
The Everyday Projects is a global community of storytellers. The various Everyday accounts on Instagram were each started by dedicated individuals without whom this project would not be possible. Our job in running this umbrella nonprofit is to provide opportunities for that community.
PETER DICAMPO, COFOUNDER
peter@everydayprojects.org
Peter DiCampo is a documentary photographer whose goal is to contribute his work to a dialogue on international development and perceptions of Africa. He is a 2019 Stanford JSK Journalism Fellow, and he is the recipient of grants and awards from Code for Africa, Pulitzer Center, Magnum Foundation, Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Open Society Foundations, and POYi, among many others. His photography has exhibited internationally and has appeared in the world’s leading publications.
REBECCA GIBIAN, COMMUNITY COORDINATOR
rebecca@everydayprojects.org
Rebecca Gibian is an international freelance journalist and author based in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has appeared in The Associated Press, The Atlantic, and VICE, among others. Her reporting focuses on women nationally and internationally and she has reported from countries including Iraq, South Africa, and Indonesia. She is also the author of The RBG Way: The Secrets of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Success.
AUSTIN MERRILL, COFOUNDER
austin@everydayprojects.org
Austin Merrill is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, NY. He is a former West Africa-based correspondent for the Associated Press and former editor at Vanity Fair, and he has had writing and photography published by National Geographic, Foreign Policy, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and others. His photography has been exhibited internationally, and he has received grants and awards from the Pulitzer Center, Open Society Foundations, Fund for Investigative Journalism, Society of American Travel Writers, and others. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ivory Coast and earned a Master of International Affairs degree at Columbia University.
WACERA F., PHOTO EDITOR, EVERYDAY AFRICA
wacera@everydayprojects.org
Wacera is a visual artist and editor currently based in Nairobi, Kenya. They produce diverse visual stories & curatorial studio projects in the role of Photo Editor, Everyday Africa. Alongside The Everyday Projects Community Team, they have supported collaborative digital reportage and editorial projects exploring layout design with teams at ICRC, World Press Photo Foundation, Photoville, Pulitzer Center, and others. Wacera is also a comic book artist and writes for the VII Insider.
danielle villasana, special projects
danielle@everydayprojects.org
Danielle Villasana is an independent photojournalist based in Houston, Texas, whose documentary work focuses on human rights around the world. She is a National Geographic Explorer, a Magnum Foundation awardee, an alumna of the Eddie Adams Workshop, and an International Women's Media Foundation fellow. Danielle’s strong belief in the power of photography paired with education and community development has guided her involvement in various initiatives and organizations. She is the co-founder of We, Women, is a Community Team member of The Everyday Projects, is on the board of the Authority Collective, and is a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
John Edwin Mason teaches African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia. He published many books and articles on South African social and cultural history, before turning his attention to photography. He is now at work on a book about the acclaimed photographer, writer, and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Mason is also a documentary photographer and is the author of the photo-book, One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival.
Stephen Mayes is Executive Director of the Tim Hetherington Trust and has managed the work and careers of top-level photographers and artists in the diverse areas of art, fashion, photojournalism and commercial photography. As creative director and as CEO he has written successful business plans and reshaped operations for American, Asian and European imaging companies. Stephen acted as secretary to the World Press Photo competition 2004 ~ 2012. Often described as a “futurist” Stephen has broadcast, taught and written extensively about the ethics and practice of photography.
Nanjala Nyabola is a writer and researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya. She writes analysis and commentary for numerous publications around the world and is the author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya (Zed Books, 2018), Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move (Hurst Books, 2020) and Strange and Difficult Times: Notes on a Global Pandemic (Hurst, forthcoming).
Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel is a photo editor at National Geographic, where she edited many of the stories in the magazine’s recent series highlighting women and the 2018 series on race and diversity. She has worked on visual media and fine art projects that probe socio-political issues for more than 15 years. Prior to National Geographic, Samuel worked with Photoville, Anastasia Photo, Hank Willis Thomas and was a co-founder and curator of the Brooklyn Photo Salon.
Sara Terry is an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker, and a member of VII photo agency, best known for her work as a post-conflict storyteller. She won a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for her long-term project, “Forgiveness and Conflict: Lessons from Africa.” She is also the founder and director of The Aftermath Project, which supports photographers working on post-conflict stories and which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary with a book published by Dewi Lewis. She is currently at work on her third documentary, “That’s How We Roll,” about mobile home parks and the wealth gap.
ADVISORY BOARD
Tasneem Alsultan is an investigative photographer and storyteller. Her work largely focuses on documenting social issues and rights-based topics in Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf region through a gender lens, challenging stereotypical perceptions of the Middle East and portraying a region and people that do not conform to expectations. Covering stories primarily for The New York Times and National Geographic, Tasneem documents ground-breaking developments in Saudi and the region. She is a contributor and advisor to Everyday Middle East.
Nicole Craine is a portrait and documentary photographer exploring the long term effects of capitalism and structural inequality in the Southeastern United States. Nicole is the founder of Everyday Rural America and a regular contributor to New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. She is currently based between New York City and Atlanta.
James Whitlow Delano is a Japan-based documentary storyteller. His work has been published and exhibited throughout the world and led to four award-winning monograph photo books, including, “Empire: Impressions from China” and “Black Tsunami: Japan 2011,” and he has won numerous awards for his work. In 2015, he founded Everyday Climate Change, where photographers from 6 continents document global climate change on 7 continents. ECC documents how climate change is not happening “over there” but it is also happening right here and right now.
Yagazie Emezi is a self-taught photographer from Aba, Nigeria focused on stories surrounding African women and their health, sexuality, education, and human rights. She has worked with The New York Times, Vogue, TIME, Washington Post, National Geographic, Bloomberg Businessweek, and many others. She is a recipient of grants from Getty Images and National Geographic, and is among the 2019 inaugural artists selected for Kehinde Wiley's art residency at Black Rock, Senegal. She is a contributor to Everyday Africa.
Documentary Photographer Kay Hickman is based in New York. She takes pride in contributing work that expands the narrative of the African Diaspora while challenging monolithic representation. Her work has been featured in publications including TIME, The New York Times, OkayPlayer, Coeval, Jazz Halo, Nueva Luz, and photographic journal, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. She is also Resident Photographer at Black Gotham Experience, an immersive visual storytelling project. She is a contributor to Everyday Black America.
Yolanda Escobar Jiménez is a Mexican-born photographer now based in Ecuador. Her work is focused on sports, travel, and documentary, and has been published in Smithsonian Journeys, Vanity Fair on Travel, Sports Illustrated, and more, and books including Hack The Future for Facebook Latin America. She often travels within Latin America, photographing everyday life for media and foundations / nonprofits. She has been on the jury of POYLatam and Fotoperiodismo por la Paz “Juan Antonio Serrano” awards. Yolanda is a contributor to Everyday Latin America.
Anas Saleem is a writer and photographer based in Faisalabad, Pakistan. He is the founder and curator of Everyday Pakistan, an award-winning visual storytelling project documenting daily life in Pakistan. His bylines are published in Global Voices, Huffpost, Express News, Hindustan Times and Dunya News. He has been featured in Quartz, Gulf News, DW, Indian Express, Dawn, Asian Photography Magazine, Firstpost, Scroll, Pakistan Today and The Wire. Currently, he is a Mass Communication student at GC University Faisalabad.