Commons:WikiPortraits

WikiPortraits is a project to capture high-quality portrait photographs for Wikimedia Commons, through in-person outreach and event coverage.

It formally started in 2024 from efforts by WikiConference North America users in the United States Wikimedia community, and has covered events such as Sundance Film Festival and South by Southwest (SXSW).

Latest project - We attended the SXSW 2024 conference in Austin, Texas, March 8–16, 2024 and had a WikiPortraits Studio, a dedicated house for taking portraits and learning about Wikipedia. See our website. We also attended the 2024 International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy where we shot notable journalists from around the world.

Note - This project should not be confused with the Wikiportrait project with the website Wikiportret.nl started in 2008 by users active on NL-Wikipedia and supported by Wikimedia Nederland. The uploads for that project are included in Category:Wikiportrait uploads.

Projects

2024 Sundance Film Festival – Commons images
South by Southwest 2024 – Report, Commons images
International Journalism Festival (Perugia, Italy) - Commons images
Gaithersburg Book Festival, Maryland - Commons images

Contacts

Kevin Payravi - User:SuperHamster
Andrew Lih - User:Fuzheado
Frank Schulenburg - User:Frank Schulenburg
Jenny 8 Lee - User:Jenny8lee

Gallery

South by Southwest 2024

South by Southwest 2024
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD
Kausar Mohammed, American actress, comedian, and writer
Caila Quinn, lifestyle and travel blogger
Dr. Jen Guyton, National Geographic photographer and evolutionary biologist
Rohit Bhargava, author and futurist
Errin Haines, American journalist
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
Sterlin Harjo, filmmaker
Sue Bird, basketball player
Ron Livingston, actor, Office Space
Hina X. Khan, actress
Theresa Nguyen and dog
Cast of the film Switch Up
Delaney Rowe, comedian and actress
WikiPortraits Studio info banners

2024 Sundance Film Festival

2024 Sundance Film Festival
Erin HM Granat, filmmaker
Dalila Ali Rajah, actress
Goh Nakamura, actor and musician
Chris Holmes, DJ, artist and producer
Dongnan Chen, documentary filmmaker
Loren Hammonds, Peabody Award-winning film producer
Louis Greatorex, actor
Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming

Mood board from pre-cursor portrait projects
Liza Donnelly, cartoonist for The New Yorker at the Louvre Abu Dhabi
Street artist Shepard Fairey in Los Angeles
Christian Louboutin, shoe and fashion designer in Mumbai, at the NMACC Opening Gala
Giovanna Battaglia Engelbert, Ωreative director, Swarovski at the NMACC
Erin Danielle Russell, author, Gaithersburg Book Festival
Ronan Farrow, author and journalist, Pulitzer Prizes awards, 2018
Martyna Majok, 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner in Drama
Momi Cazimero, Hawaiian graphic designer and entrepreneur, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Maya Rogers, chief executive officer, Tetris, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

Working setups

Working setup: SXSW
Setup at SXSW 2024
Lou Sanz, screenwriter at SXSW 2024

Working setup: Sundance Film Festival
Setup at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah. Continuous lighting, Canon R3 and R mirrorless cameras. Lens used: Canon RF 24-70L f/2.8.
Filmmaker Rahi Hasan

Working setup: Pulitzer Prizes
Setup used by Andrew Lih in 2018 for the Pulitzer Prizes portraits, using a Canon DSLR tethered to Lightroom on a laptop. Primary flash with a softbox was fired into a reflector, with an edge/hair light flash with a Flashbender diffuser. Strobes were remotely triggered via a Godox X 2.4 Ghz system. Lens used: Canon EF 70-200L f/4.
Actress Mia Farrow, captured at the Pulitzer Prizes in 2018

Discuss

We're a community of practice! Ask anything or join the discussion to talk about event photography, future events, or new ideas!

External links

WikiPortraits main site