With the support of Jennifer Stengaard Gross and Peter Stengaard, and the William, Jeff, and Jennifer Gross Foundation, VII Academy has opened a new facility for advanced media education, exhibition, and discourse in Arles, France.

Named The Alexandra Boulat Campus in honor of the late Alexandra Boulat, one of the founding photographers of VII Photo Agency, the facility is housed in a former salt warehouse on the banks of the Rhone River at the mouth of the Camargue delta. This building will join the VII Academy space in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, to offer advanced level tuition-free training in visual journalism to men and women from the majority world and other under-represented communities from G20 countries. With this presence in Arles — a UNESCO World Heritage site and the former provincial capital of Rome — VII Academy will be close to the world’s leading festival of photography, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, as well as the French National School of Photography and the Luma Foundation.