Announcing #VIIPhotoDC: Reinventing Photojournalism, a day-long seminar with VII Photo Agency that will explore the opportunities and challenges facing contemporary photojournalists. Register now for the event, to be held in collaboration with NPR and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in Washington, DC on Saturday, May 17.
The schedule of events will include:
Keynote Address: DEFINING DIGNITY | WORLD PRESS PHOTO John Stanmeyer EVOLVING AUDIENCES, CHANGING APPROACHES John Stanmeyer along with Whitney Johnson, Director of Photography for The New Yorker, and Keith Jenkins Director of Photography for National Geographic Digital will discuss how and where photojournalists of the future will reach audiences for whom social media is their funnel and their megaphone. REVISITING POST-CONFLICT | BEDROOMS OF THE FALLEN Ashley Gilbertson will discuss his long-term project and upcoming book Bedrooms of the Fallen, in which he visits the bedrooms of men and women who died serving the U.S. in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and how his work has gotten the attention of Veterans' Affairs and elevated awareness of PTSD and other issues faced by America's armed forces. APPROACHING ADVOCACY & IMPACT Ron Haviv & Ed Kashi discuss the role of photojournalism and motion in raising awareness on a wide range of social issues and present examples of executed projects that have had measurable impact. DRONES | A NEW SOCIAL NARRATIVE Special presentation by Tomas van Houtryve of his work Blue Sky Days—the longest photography feature ever published by Harper's Magazine—for which he attached a camera to a drone purchased on Amazon. Van Houtryve will discuss his approach to using photography to prompt audiences to consider and understand how constant surveillance affects us as a society.
Following this seminar, we invite you to join VII and The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for Beyond Witness, a special evening panel and reception. All events to be hosted at NPR's Studio One space.