For the past two years, Adriana Teresa Letorney, founder of Visura.co, has been quietly working on a deeply personal project: "Disrupted" — a new documentary short film and resource hub that shines a light on the declining state of the media industry and its profound impact on freelance visual journalists. Letorney was recently a panelist in an OPC program about alternative publishing outlets for freelancers. The 31-minute film, self-funded with support from the University of Syracuse and NYU Leslie eLabs, explores how media instability threatens journalism and the health of our democracy. Alongside the film, the Disrupted platform features a curated directory of organizations supporting visual journalists around the world. Read more and watch the film here: https://disrupted.visura.co/ Film Credits: Director & Producer: Adriana Teresa Letorney Associate Producer: Anna Rothschild Director of Photography: Jess DiPierro Obert Editor: Andrew Burton Motion Graphics: River Taylor Graphics: Graham Letorney Colorist: Sam Fischer The film includes interviews with: Júlia Pontés, Bharat Krish, Lauri Lyons, Mark Lubell, MaryAnne Golon, Peter Lattman, Nina Berman Featured Work by Photographers: Acacia Johnson, Cristobal Olivares, Diego Ibarra, Edu León, Gabriella Báez, Giacomo D'Orlando, Jaír F. Coll, Joana Toro, Johanna Alarcón, Joseph Rodríguez, Júlia Pontés, Keith Tsuji, Lauri Lyons, Lisa Elmaleh, Nima Taradji, Nina Berman, Nipah Dennis, Rory Doyle, Solmaz Daryani, Thong Vo Special Thanks To: Júlia Pontés, Bharat Krish, Lauri Lyons, Marcel Saba, Mark Lubell, MaryAnne Golon, Peter Lattman, Nina Berman, Whitney Latorre Johnson Poster Design: Quinn Carletta Music Licensing: Track Club Original Song: How Do You See Me by Lydia Swann Matson Produced by Andrew Gagnon and Grace Hain (fb)

Please join the OPC on June 3 for another edition of our book night series. Registrants will receive a link to join via Zoom on the day of the program. New York Times Managing Editor and OPC governor Marc Lacey will moderate a conversation with photojournalist Guillaume Bonn about his new book, Paradise Inc., which focuses on environmental conservation issues as climate change and other human activities transform the planet. The book is a compilation of Bonn’s twenty-year effort to visually document the vulnerable East African wilderness. RSVP now! (fb)