The Seventh Annual Everyday DC Student Photography Exhibition. “Everyday DC,” a photography exhibition on view at the Charles Sumner School Museum & Archives from March 28, 2023, through June 3, 2023, presents a visual narrative of everyday life in Washington, D.C. through the eyes of more than 100 D.C. public middle school students from all four quadrants of the city. The exhibition is the culmination of a unit designed by the Pulitzer Center in collaboration with DC Public Schools (DCPS) and facilitated by over a dozen DCPS visual arts teachers. Images from ten middle schools are represented in the exhibition. “Everyday DC” was inspired by the Everyday Africa project, founded by Pulitzer Center grantees Peter DiCampo and Austin Merrill, to redirect focus toward a more accurate understanding of what the majority of Africans experience on a day-to-day basis: normal life. Like Everyday Africa, Everyday DC challenges students to consider how Washington, D.C., is portrayed i
Ricci Shryock. Ricci Shryock is a freelance journalist and photographer who has lived in Dakar, Senegal since 2008. Before coming to West Africa, she reported for three years in southwest Florida, where she covered city council meetings and urban planning. Her work has appeared in outlets such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Foreign Policy and more. Ricci taught photojournalism at the University of Dakar for three years and conducted journalism trainings in multiple countries, such as DRC, Congo-Brazzaville, Niger and Tanzania. Ricci is a member of the Everyday Africa and Women Photograph collectives. Through developing and sharing opportunities with journalists who publish in local and national outlets in the countries she covers, she hopes the stories can serve the local audience as well as an international one. Recently her work focuses on how political policy and cultural norms impact women, environmental conservation through local practices and shifting story frameworks t
Leaders united by the power of art for advocacy highlight urgent need for collective action and investments to achieve the end of neglected tropical diseases