Peter DiCampo
I edit and art direct photography, illustration and other forms of visual storytelling.
Want to Work Together?
Are you a photographer or illustrator who wants to work with ProPublica? Email me your portfolio or pitches. If you’re working on a visual investigative story, reach out and we’ll see if we can work together in our Local Reporting Network.
What I Work On
I primarily edit visuals on stories from ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, working with our local partner newsrooms across the country. My visual editing and art direction have been awarded by the National Press Photographers Association, the Society for News Design, The Society of Publication Designers and the Online Journalism Awards.
My Background
Prior to joining ProPublica, I was NPR’s international visual editor. Before turning to editing, I worked for more than a decade as a freelance photojournalist, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. I co-founded Everyday Africa, a collective of photographers using social media to broaden coverage of Africa beyond the headlines, and The Everyday Projects, a global community of photographers and visual literacy nonprofit. I was a 2019 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, and I am the recipient of grants and awards from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Code for Africa, the Magnum Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, PhotoWings, Pictures of the Year International and the Pulitzer Center, among others.
The Genesis of Christian Nationalism
The Christian right has become an increasingly powerful force in American politics at every level, from school boards to the presidency. Its roots trace back decades.
Local Reporting Network
We Enlisted a Community to Help Us Report on One State’s Crumbling Schools. Here’s How You Can Do the Same.
Do you want to document problems with school facilities around your state? Reporters from ProPublica and The Idaho Statesman offer some tips.
Local Reporting Network
The Government Spends Millions to Open Grocery Stores in Food Deserts. The Real Test Is Their Survival.
The community of Cairo, Illinois, once a food desert, welcomed its new market last year with balloons and cheers. But the store is struggling — exposing problems with the programs set up to help.
Local Reporting Network
Record-Setting Blazes Are Growing More Common. Here’s What Survivors of One Want You to Know.
When the federal government accidentally triggered New Mexico’s largest wildfire, hundreds of people lost their homes and livelihoods. They have become reluctant students of forest management, disaster aid and resiliency.
Local Reporting Network
A Memorial for the Children Lost to Stillbirth
Each day in the U.S., about 60 babies are stillborn. Here, families share their child’s name and their lasting legacy.
ProPublica’s Year in Visual Journalism 2023
See the photography, illustration, graphics and filmmaking that brought ProPublica’s journalism to life and helped hold power to account in 2023.
How the World Bank Group Is Enabling the Deaths of Endangered Chimps
The World Bank Group enabled the devastation of villages and helped a mining company justify the deaths of endangered chimps with a dubious offset.
How Studying Bats Can Help Predict and Prevent the Next Pandemic
Funders thought watching bats wasn’t important. Then she helped solve the mystery of a deadly virus.
Au bord de la catastrophe
Une simple clairière de forêt nous sépare de la prochaine pandémie mortelle. Mais nous n’essayons même pas de la prévenir.
They Set Out to Save Rainforests — and Could Help Prevent the Next Outbreak
In Madagascar, an innovative nonprofit is showing the world a new way to prevent outbreaks caused by deforestation. Many funders can’t wrap their heads around it.
The Next Deadly Pandemic Is Just a Forest Clearing Away
Returning to the starting point of the world’s worst Ebola outbreak reveals how the global community failed the people of Meliandou, Guinea — and the many ways we’re not doing enough to prevent the next virus from jumping species and taking off.