Showing posts with label photography panel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography panel. Show all posts

Friday, May 23, 2025

War Reporting in a Time of Chaos | Phil Klay, Ashley Gilbertson, Victor Blue, & Danielle Paquette in Conversation

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Sunday, May 25, 2025

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Hawthorne Barn

29 Miller Hill Road, Provincetown, MA

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In a panel discussion moderated by National Book Award–winning author and Marine veteran Phil Klay, distinguished conflict journalists and photographers Victor J. Blue, Ashley Gilbertson, and Danielle Paquette will discuss their work in conflict zones on several continents over the past couple of decades. How has their work changed? How has it changed them? And as we move into a chaotic time both in the news industry and in foreign relations, where old assumptions about the international order are quickly being upended, what are unique challenges of covering wars now? And what insights can long-time war correspondents offer as we look out into an uncertain future? 

Phil Klay is an author, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, and a professor at Fairfield University. His short story collection Redeployment won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction, and his novel Missionaries was listed by former President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2020. He also regularly writes essays on politics, culture, and American military policy for publications such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and the Washington Post.

Ashley Gilbertson is an Australian photographer and writer living in New York City recognized for his critical eye and unique approach to social issues. He is a frequent contributor to major media outlets and a collaborator with the United Nations. For over twenty years, Gilbertson’s work focused on refugees and conflict, an interest that in 2002, led him to Iraq. His work from that country was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal, and in 2007, Gilbertson’s first book, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, was released, going on to become a best seller. Today, Gilbertson documents global migration in Africa and Europe, and works on climate, social and health issues in the United States and Asia. He writes regular opinion and news stories for outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, ProPublica, and UNICEF. In 2014, a multimedia story on the militarization of the South China Sea earned him an Emmy nomination.

Victor J. Blue is a New York based photojournalist whose work is most often concerned with the legacy of armed conflict, human rights and the protection of civilian populations, and unequal outcomes resulting from policy and politics. He has worked in Central America since 2002, concentrating on social conflict in Guatemala, and since 2009 has photographed the Counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan. He has completed assignments in Syria, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Iraq, and India, and has documented news stories and social issues across the United States. He worked as a staff photographer at The Record in Stockton CA, and holds a Masters Degree in Visual Communication from Ohio University. He practices a deeply reported, character driven documentary photography that tries to both inform viewers intellectually and move them emotionally, and communicate something universal from the particular circumstances of individual lives and struggles. 


Danielle Paquette is a national correspondent for The Washington Post. She previously served as West Africa bureau chief and has reported from more than 20 countries on four continents. Paquette joined The Post in 2014, starting as a roving economics reporter. A native of Indiana, she has also worked for the Tampa Bay Times and the Los Angeles Times. She resides in the nation’s capital with her husband and dog.

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Join the Rijksmuseum and the John Adams Institute for a special event featuring Nina Berman whose work is on view in the major exhibition on American photography.

 Via The John Adams Institute


American Photographers in conversation. In collaboration with the Rijksmuseum

Feb 09, 2025, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm,   Rijksmuseum (Auditorium), Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

Tickets for the public event are sold out. You can still purchase tickets for the livestream via the buy tickets link here.

Join the Rijksmuseum and the John Adams Institute in welcoming photographers from the United States whose work is on view in the major exhibition on American photography. Their collective works invite us to investigate what America is, not only in the present, but also what it has been in pivotal moments since the invention of photography itself. Captured through their lenses, events, individuals and movements of national importance are brought into focus.

Following an introduction to the exhibition by curator Hans Rooseboom, photographers Bryan Schutmaat, Sarah Sense and Nina Berman will tell us more about their work. They will explore diverse aspects of the United States in conversation with the audience and moderator Clarice Gargard (Lilith Agency).

Program information

About Bryan Schutmaat: Based in Austin, Texas, Schutmaat’s work has been widely published and exhibited. His meditations on people and place picture a wide variety of contemporary issues, from poverty to climate change. He has won numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and the Aperture Portfolio Prize, and his work has appeared in the Atlantic, New Yorker, and National Geographic, among other publications.

About Sarah Sense: Born in Sacramento, California, Sense practices what she calls photo-weaving, combining traditional Chitimacha ad Choctaw art and craft techniques with photography. Her works investigate landscapes from a Native American perspective, focusing on the colonial impacts on the climate. She is a graduate of Parsons the New School for Design, and her work has been exhibited in major galleries and museums around the world.

About Nina Berman: Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, journalist and educator. Her work explores American politics, militarism, environmental issues and post violence trauma.

Read, Watch, Listen: Looking for background information in advance of the event? Read Zachary Karabashliev – 18% Gray. Using trauma as an impetus to change his life, Zack sets off for New York with a vintage Nikon. Through the lens of the old camera, he starts rediscovering himself by photographing an America we rarely see. Watch Don’t Blink by photographer Robert Frank. A documentary about the groundbreaking photographer of The Americans. Listen to Simon & Garfunkel’s America. Their 1968 anthem is steeped in national mythology and has been interpreted as both exaltation and elegy.

More about the exhibition

In more than 200 works, the Rijksmuseum has gathered a major retrospective of American photography. The medium has left an indelible mark on human history, revolutionizing the way we look at the world, be it through art, news, advertising, our everyday lives, and the digital versions thereof we fashion on social media platforms like Instagram.


Rijksmuseum moves you to The American Dream. To the real American. To unexpected recognition. The Rijksmuseum is staging the Netherlands’ first major survey exhibition of American photography.

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

David Butow Joins Projections Panel On Photographing The LA Fires

Via Projections

January 20, 2025

 

cover graphic for "Projections" program with airplane dropping orange fire retardant over fires with text "Projections" "January 22-23" and "Mark Edward Harris, David Butow, Sean Scheidt, Ethan Swope,"



LA Fires

Mark your calendar for Wednesday and Thursday this week, January 22nd and 23rd.

With the incredible devastation going on in LA we dedicate these two evenings to our friends, family, firemen and all the folks who are volunteering to help in saving lives and starting the rebuild.

We will have highly acclaimed, award winning photographers: Mark Edward Harris, David Butow, Sean Scheidt, Ethan Swope, presenting. We have other photographers who are committed in spirit to present – to be announced.

The lineup of presenters will fluctuate as scheduling demands will dictate.

Their courage to capture these images is absolutely unbelievable.

This will to be an unforgettable night.

 

We present at 7:00 EST via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6692503751

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Using this link here you can help or donate in a variety ways: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/us/help-los-angeles-residents-during-unprecedented-wildfires/index.html



More of David Butow's coverage of the LA fires here and here.


Friday, September 7, 2012

Panel Discussion | Shifting Sands: Conflict Photojournalism and Ethics



featuring Marcus Bleasdale and Stephen Mayes
Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 6:30pm
Aperture
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001

What are the ethical responsibilities of a photojournalist who chooses to cover conflict? Can he or she be truly neutral, or do they have a responsibility to reflect the moral and political imbalances of the situations they report on?


Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2003
© Marcus Bleasdale/VII

The panel will explore the ethical pressures on photojournalists in conflict and will consider their accountability for the positions they take and the pictures they make, how they make them, where they place the work and the voice they attach to it. The discussion will consider the responsibilities and consequences, intended and otherwise, of reporting on conflict.


Marcus Bleasdale – Photographer, VII
Jason Cone – Communications Director, Doctors Without Borders USA
Philip Gourevitch – Journalist, The New Yorker
Thomas Keenan – Director of the Human Rights Project, Bard College
Kira Pollack – Director of Photography, Time Magazine
Stephen Mayes, Moderator – Managing Director, VII


More here.