These are the experiences that prove the SHIFT is happening 💪🏾 //// and we ALL play a part in it!!! Photographers, visual artists, photo editors, filmmakers, curators, and organizers…our communities, our stories AND our decisions matter.
Thank you @authoritycollective@la_centerofphoto and all of the attendees for making this such an incredible day 🙏🏾💚🙏🏾 the POC Visual Leadership Salon 2024
So excited to be part of this. 🕺🏾 Authority Collective is tabling at LA Queer Zine Fest this Sunday alongside an incredible lineup of queer and trans makers. Come say hi 👋🏾, pick up VEER Issue 3, and learn more about what we’re building. May 17, 11am-5pm at ONE Archives at USC. Free entry, RSVP at the link in bio.
@onearchivesusc@transdotform #laqueerzinefest #queerzines #zinesters #queerphotography
Cover photo by @silviaros.photo
Editorial team: @isabella_tjalve@queereditrix@tlpix@katcontreras
Join @DiversifyPhoto , @AuthorityCollective , @AAJAPhoto , and @POYipics in San Francisco at our Post-Catchlight Mixer! For the fifth year in a row, Diversify Photo is hosting a Meetup after the @catchlight.io Visual Storytelling Summit. So if you are will be in town for that, hope you can join us!
WHAT: Post-Catchlight Mixer
WHEN: 7-11 PM, Saturday, May 2, 2026
WHERE: Southern Pacific Brewing, 620 Treat Ave, SF, CA
Link in Bio to RSVP
Our meetups are open to ALL. You don't need to be a member to attend. Spread the word, bring a friend! All photographers and editors who identify as people of color or non-Western are especially encouraged to join us.
Authority Collective hosts a semi-annual gathering to inspire conversation, connection and collective learning. The Visual Leadership Salon brings together photo editors, art directors, agents, and producers alongside photographers, filmmakers and others interested in visual leadership roles and working toward a better visual media industry. We call it a “salon” because Authority Collective’s programming centers discussion and workshopping solutions.
The event intentionally creates space for women and gender non-conforming people of color (who are often underrepresented in visual media leadership), while also welcoming all those interested in pursuing visual leadership roles.
We hope you can join us this year at the SF Chronicle
May 3 9:30am - 5:00pm PT! Register at the link in our bio!
Own a gorgeous AC print! ✨Head over to our new print shop for AC’s fall fundraiser: shop.authoritycollective.org (link in bio).
All print sale funds directly support AC community-building and industry intervention efforts like our zine VEER and the yearly Visual Leadership Salon. Support equity and excellence in our visual media industries by purchasing one of these gorgeous prints!
Thank you to all the AC Community members who shared their beautiful work with us for this fundraising effort! ❤️
Caption: “Lady D”, Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo, Oakland, CA. 2024.
Photography: Gabriella Hasbun @gabrielahasbun
I’m participating in a print sale fundraiser for Authority Collective @authoritycollective 100% of proceeds from sales are donated to AC, a collective for gender-expansive, non-binary and female-identifying people of color working in photography, film and AR/VR.
Every print purchased directly supports AC’s work towards community building and resource sharing initiatives. Proceeds fund projects like VEER zine, a celebration of the AC community with a focus on social justice through local community centered projects, along with resources, proceeds also go towards Authority Collective’s Visual Leadership Salon.
You can purchase this print and browse works by AC’s many incredible image-makers at: shop.authoritycollective.org
To support this initiative, you can also contribute via Patreon: /authoritycollective
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The image above is from an ongoing series: Phantasms of the Blue Sky, a meditation on journeying (diasporic, speculative, spiritual), entangling personal, collective and ancestral elements to transmute grief and alienation into spaces for healing. Throughout the series, allegorical compositions with layered elements weave fragmented stories into a fluid network of multitudes resisting nativism and xenophobia, while an accompanying flash fiction piece employs magical realism to honor our interconnected struggles.
Print is 16”x16”
Printed on heavyweight 260 gsm Luster paper
🔥 HOT INK, FRESH PRINTS 🔥 Check out AC’s print sale at our new print shop this October: shop.authoritycollective.org (link in bio). Each print purchase directly supports and funds AC community-building and industry intervention efforts like our zine VEER and the yearly Visual Leadership Salon. Support equity and excellence in our visual media industries by purchasing one of these gorgeous prints!
Thank you to all the AC Community members who shared their beautiful work with us for this fundraising effort! ❤️
Caption: “Portrait of A Dancer.” Chance Williams, Brooklyn, NY, 2025.
Photographer: Maria J Hackett @mariajhackett
⚡️Start you AC print collection today!!⚡️
AC is running a print sale at our new print shop this October: shop.authoritycollective.org (link in bio).
All print sale funds go toward supporting AC community-building and industry intervention efforts like our zine VEER and the yearly Visual Leadership Salon. Support equity and excellence in our visual media industries by purchasing one of these gorgeous prints!
Thank you to all the AC Community members who shared their beautiful work with us for this fundraising effort! 🩵
Caption: “Eternal Pilgrimage”, 2025. My footprint aligns with my parents’, bound by crimson threads of ancestral lifeblood across time. Like the Ganges from Himalayan ice, our paths shift for ablutions, ceremony, and nourishment, sometimes murky with sorrow, yet always renewing, always returning to the source.
Photographer: Nasrah Omar @nasrah__omar
✨AUTHORITY COLLECTIVE PRINT SALE! ✨ AC is running a print sale at our new print shop this October: shop.authoritycollective.org (link in bio).
All print sale funds go toward supporting AC community-building and industry intervention efforts like our zine VEER and the yearly Visual Leadership Salon. Support equity and excellence in our visual media industries by purchasing one of these gorgeous prints!
Thank you to all the AC Community members who shared their beautiful work with us for this fundraising effort! ❤️
Caption: “Kasama Alexa.” Portland, OR. 2025. Alexa Domenden preps before we begin photos for a project called “Overland, Overseas” exploring what it means to carry on our ancestral legacies without the immediate ties to our lands and seas.
Photographer: Celeste Noche @extracelestial
✨AC is running a print sale at our new print shop this October: shop.authoritycollective.org (link in bio).✨
All print sale funds go toward supporting AC community-building and industry intervention efforts like our zine VEER and the yearly Visual Leadership Salon. Support equity and excellence in our visual media industries by purchasing one of these gorgeous prints!
Thank you to all the AC Community members who shared their beautiful work with us for this fundraising effort! ❤️
Caption: “Rebecca”, Baltimore, Maryland, 2022. A study in light, expression, and connection featuring a friend from school.
Photographer: Terra Amber Lee Blissett
We stand with the students speaking out against gen-cide and journalists dedicated to documenting this struggle.
Sharing some resources for photojournalists, especially students, covering the campus protests.
@aclu_nationwide@authoritycollective
Hey everyone! 🐍🫶 This is Wendy Cubillo (@eonagapi ) taking over the @authoritycollective feed this week. So excited to connect with y’all & share more about myself, my work, and my upcoming solo exhibition titled ‘Chroma.’ Thank u @lasfotosproject for making this possible💌
In making statements through photography and journalism, Wendy Cubillo (b. East Los Angeles, California, 2004) tells stories related to identity, culture, and pride. She is a live music, event, and studio photographer, often combining the three to highlight self expression. Wendy has created a print and online platform named Eonagapi, showcasing local community creatives from music, fashion, art, and film. She was the recipient of the 2022 Youth Catalyst Award awarded by Las Fotos Project and the city of Los Angeles for actively disrupting mainstream media. Wendy strives to push the boundaries of photography by focusing on small details, culture, and complex emotions.
Looking forward to spending a week sharing behind the scenes, sneak peeks, and more on Chroma!💜
