Parallax Photo Journal

Pictures of the Year Asia and Parallax Photo Journal are pleased to announce our first collaboration to be held first quarter of 2025.

Founded by Tom White, Charlene Winfred and Matthew Aslett, Parallax Photo Journal is a platform for socially-engaged documentary photography from Southeast Asia and surrounds. Parallax aims to present a diversity of points of view on the Southeast Asian region, while grounding these in our shared reality.

Pictures of the Year Asia and Parallax are coming together to curate a series of presentations on documentary photography and photojournalism with topics ranging from in-depth long-term projects to good professional practices.

This joint effort represents our collective mission to elevate the standard of our profession through free-flow conversations and sharing. This is also a wonderful opportunity for visual storytellers in the region to explore possibilities to collaborate.

While drawing on our networks, contributors and POY Asia’s long list of awardees, we also hope to work with talents from all over Asia. If you have a topic of concern, or a project to present, then please do get in touch. We would especially welcome presentations on the processes of working in the industry. Do take a look at POY Asia Presents as a guide.

The dates for our inaugural events are 15 & 23 July 2025.

Stay tuned for more details.

– Long-term stories/projects
– Local news reporting(what are the outlets at a local level?)
– Publishing photo essays — which media do this?
– Photojournalism professional practice
– Ethics
– The journalism part
– Safety training and security protocols
– Taiwanese photography scene/publications
– Photojournalism in the gallery — Is it a viable alternative?
– Book & zine publishing
– Personal projects and assignment work
– How newsrooms work — editors/writers
– State of photojournalism — country presentation