WikiPortraits
@wikiportraits.org
WikiPortraits is a project to capture high-quality portrait photographs for Wikimedia Commons, through in-person outreach and event coverage. Learn more here: https://www.wikiportraits.org/about
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· May 8
Volunteer - WikiPortraits: Improving Photos on Wikipedia
www.wikiportraits.org
Are you a photographer who wants to contribute to WikiPortraits? You can shoot both new photos or we can help you upload existing works. Interested? Contact us here!
www.wikiportraits.org/volunteer
www.wikiportraits.org/volunteer
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Attention Bryan fans!! There's a group of Wikipedians called WikiPortraits that takes portraits of public figures and navigates press passes. Volunteer with them if you want to support more Bryans or be your own Bryan! website is wikiportraits.org and the account to follow is @wikiportraits.org
If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)
November 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Attention Bryan fans!! There's a group of Wikipedians called WikiPortraits that takes portraits of public figures and navigates press passes. Volunteer with them if you want to support more Bryans or be your own Bryan! website is wikiportraits.org and the account to follow is @wikiportraits.org
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If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)
November 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)
Honestly? This is just perfect for Tim Robinson.
August 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Honestly? This is just perfect for Tim Robinson.
It's challenging to find current images of notable people on Wikipedia. However, WikiPortraits uploads freely-licensed photos of notable figures at-scale! Here's a recent photo of John Myung, founding member of Dream Theater.
Henning Ihmels (2007), CC BY 2.5
Birgit Fostervold (2025), CC BY-SA 4.0
Henning Ihmels (2007), CC BY 2.5
Birgit Fostervold (2025), CC BY-SA 4.0
July 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It's challenging to find current images of notable people on Wikipedia. However, WikiPortraits uploads freely-licensed photos of notable figures at-scale! Here's a recent photo of John Myung, founding member of Dream Theater.
Henning Ihmels (2007), CC BY 2.5
Birgit Fostervold (2025), CC BY-SA 4.0
Henning Ihmels (2007), CC BY 2.5
Birgit Fostervold (2025), CC BY-SA 4.0
A nice thread about WikiPortraits from our friends at @wikimediafoundation.org (give us a follow on Bluesky? 🙂)
Have you ever seen a celebrity's Wikipedia photo that looked like it was taken with a potato? It is not laziness, it is licensing.
Now, through WikiPortraits, a global group of photographers is changing things, one portrait at a time. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)
Now, through WikiPortraits, a global group of photographers is changing things, one portrait at a time. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)
July 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A nice thread about WikiPortraits from our friends at @wikimediafoundation.org (give us a follow on Bluesky? 🙂)
Switzerland-based WikiPortraits photographer Quejaytee's portrait of Tommy Cash, who represented Estonia at Eurovision 2025, has been viewed nearly 730,000 times across Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. #photography
📷 Quejaytee, CC BY-SA 4.0
📷 Quejaytee, CC BY-SA 4.0
July 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Switzerland-based WikiPortraits photographer Quejaytee's portrait of Tommy Cash, who represented Estonia at Eurovision 2025, has been viewed nearly 730,000 times across Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. #photography
📷 Quejaytee, CC BY-SA 4.0
📷 Quejaytee, CC BY-SA 4.0
What are some of the most popular WikiPortraits uploads? This portrait of Tom Cruise at Cannes 2025 has been viewed 2.5 million times on Wikimedia Commons! #photography
📷 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0
📷 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0
July 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
What are some of the most popular WikiPortraits uploads? This portrait of Tom Cruise at Cannes 2025 has been viewed 2.5 million times on Wikimedia Commons! #photography
📷 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0
📷 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0
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The folks at @wikiportraits.bsky.social and @wikimediach.bsky.social made a neat tool for wikiphotographers to create galleries/profiles from WikiCommons photos. Tested it with my "Birds of New York" gallery: commons.gallery/@rhododendri...
Birds of New York - Rhododendrites - Commons Gallery
Photographs of birds in New York (mostly NYC).
commons.gallery
July 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The folks at @wikiportraits.bsky.social and @wikimediach.bsky.social made a neat tool for wikiphotographers to create galleries/profiles from WikiCommons photos. Tested it with my "Birds of New York" gallery: commons.gallery/@rhododendri...
Irish artist David Nolan, of David Nolan Galleries, at Art Basel 2025, in Basel, Switzerland
📷 Kalai Ramu, CC BY-SA 4.0
#art #photography
📷 Kalai Ramu, CC BY-SA 4.0
#art #photography
July 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Irish artist David Nolan, of David Nolan Galleries, at Art Basel 2025, in Basel, Switzerland
📷 Kalai Ramu, CC BY-SA 4.0
#art #photography
📷 Kalai Ramu, CC BY-SA 4.0
#art #photography
Togolese painter, sculptor and installation artist Clement Gbegno at Africa Basel 2025 in Basel, Switzerland in June 2025. #art #photography
📷 RAWdz Ivan, CC-BY-4.0
📷 RAWdz Ivan, CC-BY-4.0
July 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Togolese painter, sculptor and installation artist Clement Gbegno at Africa Basel 2025 in Basel, Switzerland in June 2025. #art #photography
📷 RAWdz Ivan, CC-BY-4.0
📷 RAWdz Ivan, CC-BY-4.0
German artist Katharina Grosse speaking on an Art Conversations panel during Art Basel 2025, in Basel, Switzerland. at Art Basel 2025. Grosse’s vibrant CHOIR installation was on view in Messeplatz, Basel, for the duration of the festival. #art #photography
📷 Jennifer 8. Lee, CC-BY-4.0
📷 Jennifer 8. Lee, CC-BY-4.0
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
German artist Katharina Grosse speaking on an Art Conversations panel during Art Basel 2025, in Basel, Switzerland. at Art Basel 2025. Grosse’s vibrant CHOIR installation was on view in Messeplatz, Basel, for the duration of the festival. #art #photography
📷 Jennifer 8. Lee, CC-BY-4.0
📷 Jennifer 8. Lee, CC-BY-4.0
"The Squash" by Anthea Hamilton being performed at Basel Social Club 2025, as part of the Art Basel International Art Fair in Switzerland.
📷 Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0 #art #photography
📷 Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0 #art #photography
June 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"The Squash" by Anthea Hamilton being performed at Basel Social Club 2025, as part of the Art Basel International Art Fair in Switzerland.
📷 Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0 #art #photography
📷 Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0 #art #photography
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Flashback Friday! 🔥 Take a look back at our Wikicurious: Community Memory event last month with Rhizome and the Cybernetics Library. We had so much fun exploring the art installations, reading rare books, and editing Wikipedia articles about media art 😍
June 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Flashback Friday! 🔥 Take a look back at our Wikicurious: Community Memory event last month with Rhizome and the Cybernetics Library. We had so much fun exploring the art installations, reading rare books, and editing Wikipedia articles about media art 😍
Coline Milliard, executive editor of Art Basel, at the Art Basel international art fair in Basel, Switzerland in June 2025.
📷 Bea Phi, CC-BY-4.0 #art #photography
📷 Bea Phi, CC-BY-4.0 #art #photography
June 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Coline Milliard, executive editor of Art Basel, at the Art Basel international art fair in Basel, Switzerland in June 2025.
📷 Bea Phi, CC-BY-4.0 #art #photography
📷 Bea Phi, CC-BY-4.0 #art #photography
Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.
📷 Kevin Payravi, CC-BY-4.0
📷 Kevin Payravi, CC-BY-4.0
June 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.
📷 Kevin Payravi, CC-BY-4.0
📷 Kevin Payravi, CC-BY-4.0
A nice writeup about WikiPortraits by @eikekuehl.bsky.social for Zeit Online: "Blurry, underexposed, and unflattering: Many Wikipedia entries contain terrible photos. The project WikiPortraits wants to change that – and is picking up the camera itself." (translation)
www.zeit.de/digital/inte...
www.zeit.de/digital/inte...
Wikipedia: Der Text ist top, das Bild ein Blob
Unscharf, unterbelichtet und unvorteilhaft: Viele Wikipedia-Einträge enthalten furchtbare Fotos. Das Projekt WikiPortraits will das ändern und zückt selbst die Kamera.
www.zeit.de
June 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A nice writeup about WikiPortraits by @eikekuehl.bsky.social for Zeit Online: "Blurry, underexposed, and unflattering: Many Wikipedia entries contain terrible photos. The project WikiPortraits wants to change that – and is picking up the camera itself." (translation)
www.zeit.de/digital/inte...
www.zeit.de/digital/inte...
WikiPortraits was accredited to the Art Basel international art fair in Switzerland this past weekend. Here are some BTS shots with Jenny, Bea, Kevin, Vera and Ivan. A heatwave, so a lot of swimming in the Rhine River! #art #artists
📷 @jenny8lee.bsky.social, Ivan Rodriguez, @payravi.dev, CC-BY-4.0
📷 @jenny8lee.bsky.social, Ivan Rodriguez, @payravi.dev, CC-BY-4.0
June 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
WikiPortraits was accredited to the Art Basel international art fair in Switzerland this past weekend. Here are some BTS shots with Jenny, Bea, Kevin, Vera and Ivan. A heatwave, so a lot of swimming in the Rhine River! #art #artists
📷 @jenny8lee.bsky.social, Ivan Rodriguez, @payravi.dev, CC-BY-4.0
📷 @jenny8lee.bsky.social, Ivan Rodriguez, @payravi.dev, CC-BY-4.0
Paige Bethmann, a Haudenosaunee director and producer based in Reno, Nevada, at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). Bethmann's new film, 'Remaining Native,' was being shown at SIFF. #filmsky
📷 Imaginary Alley Cat, CC-BY-4.0
📷 Imaginary Alley Cat, CC-BY-4.0
June 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Paige Bethmann, a Haudenosaunee director and producer based in Reno, Nevada, at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). Bethmann's new film, 'Remaining Native,' was being shown at SIFF. #filmsky
📷 Imaginary Alley Cat, CC-BY-4.0
📷 Imaginary Alley Cat, CC-BY-4.0
Actor Jerimiah Daniels at the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). Daniels stars alongside William Catlett in the film 'Color Book.' #filmsky
📷 Photo.joe.peacock, CC-BY-4.0
📷 Photo.joe.peacock, CC-BY-4.0
June 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Actor Jerimiah Daniels at the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). Daniels stars alongside William Catlett in the film 'Color Book.' #filmsky
📷 Photo.joe.peacock, CC-BY-4.0
📷 Photo.joe.peacock, CC-BY-4.0
Another update from the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), this time Tracy Rector at the opening reception for "Tatau/Tattoo: Embodying Resistance", exhibit at Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, Washington. #filmsky
📷 Dan Depew, CC-BY-4.0
📷 Dan Depew, CC-BY-4.0
June 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Another update from the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), this time Tracy Rector at the opening reception for "Tatau/Tattoo: Embodying Resistance", exhibit at Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, Washington. #filmsky
📷 Dan Depew, CC-BY-4.0
📷 Dan Depew, CC-BY-4.0
In May, WikiPortraits attended the 2025 Seattle Film Festival (SIFF). Here are Alex Moruo (director) and Tantiana Ushnitskaya (screenwriter), celebrating the release of their new animated short 'Munkha.' #filmsky
📷 Imaginary Alley Cat, CC-BY-4.0
📷 Imaginary Alley Cat, CC-BY-4.0
June 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
In May, WikiPortraits attended the 2025 Seattle Film Festival (SIFF). Here are Alex Moruo (director) and Tantiana Ushnitskaya (screenwriter), celebrating the release of their new animated short 'Munkha.' #filmsky
📷 Imaginary Alley Cat, CC-BY-4.0
📷 Imaginary Alley Cat, CC-BY-4.0
WikiPortraits was front row to catch Pulp's first-ever performance at London's 02 on June 13, 2025. Photographer Ethnephoto (Emily Lily) captured great shots of the band and the crowd, with more spectacular shots uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
📷Ethnephoto, CC-BY-4.0
📷Ethnephoto, CC-BY-4.0
June 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
WikiPortraits was front row to catch Pulp's first-ever performance at London's 02 on June 13, 2025. Photographer Ethnephoto (Emily Lily) captured great shots of the band and the crowd, with more spectacular shots uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
📷Ethnephoto, CC-BY-4.0
📷Ethnephoto, CC-BY-4.0
More Cannes 2025 Red Carpet photos from our WikiPortraits photographers! Isabél Zuaa (for O Agente Secreto), Akinola Davies (My Father's Shadow), Janhvi Kapoor (Homebound), and Fares Fares and Tarik Saleh celebrating at 2025 Cannes Eagles of the Republic photocall. #filmsky
📷 Kacy Bao, CC BY-SA 4.0
📷 Kacy Bao, CC BY-SA 4.0
June 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
More Cannes 2025 Red Carpet photos from our WikiPortraits photographers! Isabél Zuaa (for O Agente Secreto), Akinola Davies (My Father's Shadow), Janhvi Kapoor (Homebound), and Fares Fares and Tarik Saleh celebrating at 2025 Cannes Eagles of the Republic photocall. #filmsky
📷 Kacy Bao, CC BY-SA 4.0
📷 Kacy Bao, CC BY-SA 4.0
Continuing our May recap, more wonderful WikiPortraits shots from the Cannes 2025 Red Carpet: Actor, screenwriter, playwright and writer Alice Carvalho, director and actor Scarlett Johansson, and Arab and Tarzan Nasser, directors of Once Upon a Time in Gaza. #filmsky
📷 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0
📷 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0
June 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Continuing our May recap, more wonderful WikiPortraits shots from the Cannes 2025 Red Carpet: Actor, screenwriter, playwright and writer Alice Carvalho, director and actor Scarlett Johansson, and Arab and Tarzan Nasser, directors of Once Upon a Time in Gaza. #filmsky
📷 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0
📷 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Finishing up our look back at an amazing May for WikiPortraits, more photos from the Cannes Red Carpet. First up, three portraits by Gabriel Hutchinson: Filmmakers Momoko Seko and Spike Lee, and singer, songwriter and former first lady of France Carla Bruni.
📷 Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0
📷 Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0
June 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Finishing up our look back at an amazing May for WikiPortraits, more photos from the Cannes Red Carpet. First up, three portraits by Gabriel Hutchinson: Filmmakers Momoko Seko and Spike Lee, and singer, songwriter and former first lady of France Carla Bruni.
📷 Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0
📷 Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0