SOME KIND OF SOLSTICE
Working with Care: Collaborative Visual Storytelling
What does it mean for art to be a dialogue? For an image to. be a conversation? How do we document the ephemeral? What emerges through encounter?✶
Zine (Spanish)
Co-created by:
Sarah Blesener & Jennifer Stratton
Stephanie Strasburg + Angela C. Gardner
Nate Smallwood + Mariama
Sofie Hecht + Teniecka Drake
Carolina Herrera + María de Jesús Corona Rodríguez
Kori Suzuki + Jazz LedBetter
Karla Gachet Vega + Monica Paz
Paola Boyance + Josephine Smedley
Paolo Riveros + Tina Rios – Ndee (Apache) and Diné (Navajo)
Maxim Elram + Sheilah Kimble
Alexis Gines + Lisbet Perez
Hector Franco + Liam Chavez
Stella Kalinina + Chao Lee
And
The California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
Blue Shield of California Foundation
With special thanks to:
Jenna Lane, Krysten Massa, Jessica Merrill and Megan Tanahashi
Reynolds Journalism Institue
Designed by: Serena Gramaglia
Printed by: Brown Printing
“Though we do not believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world”
James Baldwin
The summer solstice is a day defined by light. We receive as much daylight as we will all year. The world feels briefly suspended in brightness. At the very moment the light reaches its fullest expression, the Earth is already continuing on its path, beginning its gradual turn toward shorter days. The change is almost imperceptible. We cannot see it happening, but trust that movement is occurring even when everything appears still.
Some Kind of Solstice is a zine resource made from a shared solstice of listening, conversations and exchanges between visual journalists and graduates of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence's survivor media training program.
Brought together through an online workshop titled Working with Care, we invited participants on both sides of the camera lens into deeper conversation about collaboration and more participatory ways of working in visual storytelling. Rather than seeking definitive answers, the conversations opened space for uncertainty, reflection, exchange, and questions of care. The publication brings together reflections and insights on survivor-centered approaches to visual storytelling, offering a companion resource to the Let’s End DV Journalist Playbook.