POY/CPOY Photo Festival to recognize winners, share poignant storytelling

POY/CPOY Photo Festival to recognize winners, share poignant storytelling: Reynolds Journalism Institute hosts this mixer Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, with five celebrated photojournalists presenting at Smith Forum, 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m., and awards at Ragtag Cinema, 5–7 p.m. Celebrating Pictures of the Year and College Photographer of the Year winners, topics include reporter Kimberly Mata-Rubio’s experiences after the Uvalde school shooting, which killed her 10-year-old daughter Lexi and 18 other children; Tamir Kalifa’s New York Times coverage of her mayoral run and community recovery, earning POY’s Community Awareness Award; deadly human-elephant confrontations in Sri Lanka; World Understanding Award recipient Nicolo Filippo Rosso’s five years covering migration from Central and South America; and CPOY Portfolio winner Vincent Alban’s work on Rochester communities coping with gun violence. Coffee and pastries begin at 9:30 a.m.; a pizza party follows Saturday, Sept. 7, at Shakespeare’s Piz

Hosted with: Psychedelic Writers Guild