Catchlight reveals the 2025 CatchLight Global Fellows

During the CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit on May 3, the San Francisco–based nonprofit Catchlight revealed this year's CatchLight Global Fellows, who received a $30,000 grant to develop their project and engage with the communities portrayed. The organisation has the goal of discovering new forms of narration, different from the traditional documentary visual storytelling: the three photographers chosen for 2025 center the community in both the process and impact of the project, using photography as a tool of change and solidarity.

Rehab Eldalil is a photographer based in Cairo who collaborated with a war survivor in the SWANA region. In the project From the Ashes, I Rose, the artist transformed what the patients at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Amman experienced into acts of resistance. Moving away from victimhood narratives, Eldalil presents a mixed-media project in which solidarity wins against civilian violence.