Northern Exposure 2025

Mark your calendars! Northern Exposure 2025 is set for Friday, April 4 – Saturday, April 5 at the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Murphy Hall on the East Bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.

Northern Exposure is an anything-but-the-same-old conference to talk photography, video and storytelling. For the last several years, photojournalists have shaped the way we receive news about the pandemic, unrest, social justice and more. It hasn’t always been easy, but it’s been important. Let’s gather to learn from each other and inspire one another.

Join us on Friday for a student-focused program (everyone is welcome to attend) with a Friday night get-together open to anyone. On Saturday there will be great keynote speakers and breakout sessions with optional dinner options.

A light breakfast is provided each day and lunch is included in your registration. Pre-registered attendees will receive a t-shirt. (Day-of registrations may only receive a t-shirt if available).

Early Bird Pricing: $60/pros and $15/students, Friday breakfast and boxed lunch, Saturday breakfast and lunch, Sunday breakfast, and a t-shirt. Saturday only, $50, Sunday only, $25. Students, Friday only, $10.

After March 1: $75/pros and $20/students, Friday breakfast and boxed lunch, Saturday breakfast and lunch, Sunday breakfast, and a t-shirt. Saturday only, $50, Sunday only, $25.

On Site Registration (April 4-5): $75/pros and $20/students, Friday breakfast and boxed lunch, Saturday breakfast and lunch, Sunday breakfast. Saturday only, $50. T-shirts available as inventory allows.

In the meantime, look back at 2024’s conference!

Keynote speakers Carol Guzy, Kent Nishimura and Tara Pixley were terrific. Guzy is a four-time Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist and a three-time NPPA Photographer of the Year. She specializes on long-form documentary human interest projects and news stories, both domestic and international. Nishimura is a photographer based in Washington, DC., most recently as a photographer with the Los Angeles Times, covering Washington, and much of the Eastern Seaboard. Pixley is a queer, Jamaican-American visual journalist and Assistant Professor of Journalism at Temple University. Her filmic and photographic work intersect with her scholarship and advocacy, each using visual media to frame race, gender, climate futures, LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities through a liberation lens.

But that’s wasn’t all! We heard from Mike Davis, Dave LaBelle, Richard Tsong-Taatarii, Katie Rausch, Jaida Grey Eagle, McKenna Ewen and more. Check them out here.

In Pictures (Of Course)

Early Bird Pricing: $60/pros and $15/students, Friday breakfast and boxed lunch, Saturday breakfast and lunch and a t-shirt. Saturday only, $50.

After March 1: $75/pros and $20/students, Friday breakfast and boxed lunch, Saturday breakfast and lunch and a t-shirt. Saturday only, $50.

On Site Registration (April 4-5): $75/pros and $20/students, Friday breakfast and boxed lunch, Saturday breakfast and lunch, Sunday breakfast. Saturday only, $50, Sunday only, $25. T-shirts available as inventory allows.

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