Events
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning duo Paul Kitagaki Jr. and Renée C. Byer in conversation with Emmy award winning media producer Wendy Hanamura as they discuss how their photographic moments help bring awareness and create change.
Eyes on Main Street, Wilson, NC: Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Renée C. Byer gives us a glimpse into life’s deeper meanings through storytelling narratives and images that touch our hearts. Throughout her career she has traveled the globe, covering a wide range of important issues such as the environment, climate change, poverty, healthcare, women's rights, and social justice movements. Her work often translates stark statistics into poignant images that connect us to our shared humanity, shedding light on the struggles and triumphs of people around the world.
In the heart of the city of Zurich, world-class science will meet world-class photography from 8 September 2023. Together, they are creating a new format for communication with a focus on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Renée C. Byer will exhibit: “Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World’s Poor” as part of the goal on poverty.
The premiere International Festival of Photojournalism Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, France presents a screening of photographs by Renée C. Byer titled “Dead-end Despair” at Campo Santo. Free entrance
The premiere International Festival of Photojournalism Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, France presents a screening of photographs by Renée C. Byer titled “Homeless Crisis Worsens,” at Campo Santo. Free entrance
FREE ONLINE EVENT, BUT TICKETS ARE REQUIRED.
EBPCO’s Photography Out Loud! series is proud to present Pulitzer prize winning photojournalist Renée C. Byer who will share some images from her internationally acclaimed book, “Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World’s Poor,” and her most recent work on homelessness in California. Her images capture the humanity of the people experiencing abject poverty in America's wealthiest state. Homelessness is a societal failure playing out in real-time and in plain view. In Sacramento, the capital of California, homelessness has overwhelmed the community and it has become the more pressing issue on the minds of citizens. Renee's work, her ability to capture intimate moments in her images, has made homelessness real for the readers of the Sacramento Bee. Her work challenges readers to see that the homeless people they view from a safe distance are, like them, just people who want to live their lives with dignity.
Exhibition by Award-Winning ZUMA Press Photojournalists
Palm Beach Photographic Center
COVID Times captures humanity at its darkest hours and witnesses others rise above and beyond, showing that hope never dies, Thanks to these courageous photographers on the frontlines of history, we can see and share the good, bad and beauty of it all.
Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, Australia
https://www.headon.com.au/exhibitions/living-dollar-day-lives-and-faces-worlds-poor
The people in Byer’s compelling profiles share their hardships, their joys, and their dreams for the future with her. Often with little hope of changing their destiny, they dream of something better for their children. In her searing and tender images, accompanied by stories shared by people whose trust she gained, Byer gives voice to those who would not otherwise be heard.
This exhibition works to establish an interface through images and storytelling, to pull the viewer in and share a very personal experience which impacts us all, both abroad as well as at home. The exhibition ‘Living On a Dollar a Day’ was created to generate understanding, empathy and the ability to act in a positive way to end extreme poverty.
Enriched content:
It is impossible to look at exhbition and not to wish to “do something.” As part of her work, Renee developed an emersive website youbridge.it to give the viewer 10 clear goals to reduce the number of people living on a dollar a day.
https://www.headon.com.au/exhibitions/living-dollar-day-lives-and-faces-worlds-poor
On Thursday, Nov. 7, please join us for an exclusive event: Camp Fire: One Year Later.
This multimedia showcase and Q&A will take place at the state-of-the-art McClatchy New Ventures Lab in downtown Sacramento.
The event includes a self-guided tour of the defining images of last year’s devastating wildfire as seen through the lens of Pulitzer Prize-winning Sacramento Bee photographer, Renée C. Byer. Photos will be available for purchase through a silent auction, and Byer will host a Q&A on her experience in Paradise.
https://www.festivaldellafotografiaetica.it/2019-nonprofit-positive-change-can-happen-eng/
Festival La Gacilly Baden Photo presents an Artist talk at Arnulf Rainer Museum Baden bee Wien, Austria
Be Epic! London International Film Festival
Our film Living on a Dollar a Day, will be screened in London on Sunday, August 12th! This is now the fifteenth award and recognition our film has received since we started entering our film in festivals in September 2017.
Bring your mobile
Alongside each photo, a barcode invites visitors to engage with the art on a deeper level through mobile web app Youbridge.it The app allows viewers to hear more about the issues highlighted in each photograph, donate to groups working toward solutions and share on social media.
A documentary about the project will begin at 6:30PM followed by a conversation with Renée Byer about her work. Refreshments will be served.
Renée C. Byer brings her expanded interactive photography exhibition and call to action to eradicate extreme poverty, featured on CBS Sunday Morning and on National Geographic's PROOF blog, to Cosumnes River College Art Gallery. After focusing for many years on the difficulties of the working class throughout America, Byer felt it was time to turn her attention to the world and bring the images and message closer to home. Byer first introduced this interactive tool youbridge.it as a keynote speaker at UNESCO's Global Women Leaders' Forum in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, America’s longest continuously operating photojournalism conference, was founded in 1973 by a group of photojournalists representing newspapers, magazines and wire services. A 501(c)(3) organization, the Seminar promotes the highest standards of photojournalism through an annual educational conference and photography contest judged by working photographers and editors.
Pulitzer Prize Photographer Renée C. Byer
Byer will speak on her internationally acclaimed book, “Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World’s Poor,” which illuminates the stories of people living on the brink of survival. Byer will sign copies of poster reproductions of her photographs after the talk.
Knight TV Studio, Level 3
Renée is pleased to announce an exhibition of her work "No Safe Place," a project on Afghan refugees who were granted Special Immigrant Visas after they were threatened by the Taliban for working alongside U.S. and Coalition forces and face violence and poverty in the U.S.
Visa Pour L'Image is the premiere International Festival of Photojournalism held in Perpignan, France.
Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World’s Poor
Renée C. Byer will speak about her internationally acclaimed book, Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World’s Poor, which illuminates the stories of people living on the brink of survival and invites us to put an end to extreme poverty.
Where: 10050 Constellation Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90067
REGISTER for the free event
Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World's Poor
Artist Lecture: 7:30 MMTH Auditorium
The School of Journalism & Broadcasting is excited to announce the opening of a photographic and interactive exhibition that promises to change the way you look at the world.
