Calling all would-be photojournalists: This is your chance to tap the skills and experience of the Wired.com photo department to become better photographers, reporters and storytellers.

Raw File is starting a new series of posts called Assignment Wired, wherein we dole out assignments to you, the readers, and then choose several of your submissions to publish and critique in a future post on the site. You’ll learn firsthand what it’s like to be on assignment for Wired.

Our interest and expertise is in reportage and photojournalism so those will be the focus of our lessons. If you’re looking to l...