- THE COST OF THE FRONTLINE, JULY 2008
KAEL ALFORD Orignally from Middletown, NYC, Kael was one of the few independent photographers in Baghdad during the US bombing and documented the impact of the war and its aftermath. In the fall of 2003 she rented a room in Ramadi, Iraq, to photograph the resistance as it it was first taking place in the months after the US-led invasion. She also crossed the front lines in Najef and Sadr City to photogrpah the Mehdi Militia battles with US forces.
RONNIE FARLEY is the author/photographer of Women of the Native Struggle: Portraits and Testimony of Native American Women (Crown 1993), Cowgirls: Contemporary Portraits of the American West (Crown 1995, reprinted by Thunder’s Mouth Press in 1998), and Diary of a Pedestrian: A New York Memoir, which was published on her own imprint Third Eye Press in 2004. Farley is an award-winning photographer and a former photo-editor at the Associated Press. Her work has been shown nationally and has been critically acclaimed by the New York Times and the Washington Post among other publications. Her work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, USA Today, Sierra Magazine, and the Sunday Times of London. Farley’s “Cowgirls” work is currently on a four-year exhibition tour throughout the United States sponsored by Exhibits USA, The Mid America Arts Alliance, and The National Endowment for the Humanities. She is currently working on three book projects and divides her time between Beacon, New York City, and the road.
DENISE DEVORE After receiving a B.A. in psychology and art history from Ohio State University, Denise moved to New York City. She worked in the financial field for a number of years, but it was clear her passion was not stock prices, but f-stops. She studied for one year at the School of Visual Arts in NYC before deciding the best way to learn about taking pictures was to get out and take them. Now living in Beacon, New York, Denise received a summer internship with The Poughkeepsie Journal. She focuses on local stories that impact the community in which she lives. Whether it is home healthcare workers, farmers in the Hudson Valley or former prison inmates, all of these people and places have left an indelible mark on her, and the result is an image or two that have attempted to relate that story.
JESSICA DIMMOCK is a graduate of The International Center of Photography’s Program in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism. Her work has appeared in Aperture, The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Time, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Wired, and Fader. For her work on heroin addicts in New York she was awarded several awards including the F Award for Concerned Photography from Forma and Fabrica, the Inge Morath Award from Magnum, the Marty Forsher Fellowship for Documentary Photography from PDN and the Juror’s Choice Award for the Project Competition from the Santa Fe Center for Photography. In the fall of 2007 Jessica’s first book, The Ninth Floor, was published by Contrasto and was listed by Photo District News as one of best books of 2007. Jessica had her first international solo exhibition at Forma, The International Center
- Vanishing Giants at the Asia Society
- FROM NEWS TO ART’ FEBRUARY 16th 2008
The transcript of the discussion will soon be available here - ROBERT STEVENS, MODERATOR is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts where he teaches History of Photography as well as at the International Center of Photography both in New York City. He is a board member and the secretary of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund for Humanistic Photography, a prestigious grant of $35,000 made to support documentary photographers. He is the former international photo editor of Time Magazine for 20 years. Mr. Stevens studied photography and art history at the Rochester Visual Studies Workshop.
DANIELLE JACKSON is the Exhibitions and Cultural Projects Coordinator at Magnum Photos, New York, where she develops a diverse range shows for the agency's photographers in museums, galleries, and photo festivals throughout North and South America. Recent projects include Rene Burri’s, retrospective, Un Mundo, Elliott Erwitt’s retrospective, Personal Best, and Jonas Bendiksen’s Satellites. Prior to joining Magnum, Ms. Jackson has worked as a consultant and photographer. Magnum Photos is a photographic co-operative of great distinction and are acclaimed for their powerful individual vision. Through its four editorial offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, Magnum Photos provides photographs to the press, publishers, advertising, television, galleries and museums across the world
ARIEL SHANBERG is the Executive Director at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, a not-for-profit, artist-centered organization. Since joining CPW in 1999, Shanberg has curated numerous exhibitions and currently serves as editor of CPW’s quarterly-publication, PQ. In addition to his work at CPW, Shanberg curated the exhibition “Food for Thought” at the Light Factory (March 2008) in Charlotte, NC, and has contributed essays to several publications. He has served on various panels and nominating committees and has been an invited juror and portfolio reviewer to Fotofest, SPE Conferences, Photo Lucida, Rhubarb Rhubarb, and Critical Mass, as well as an invited speaker at Bucknell College, Syracuse and Rutgers Universities. He was the 2007 SPE Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Regional Conference Chair, which was held in November in Woodstock, NY. Additionally he serves on the Advisory Board of En Foco.
STEPHANIE HEIMANN is a founding member of FOVEA, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to education through photojournalism. She is also the Photography Director for Luxury SpaFinder Magazine, an international travel magazine. Previously, she was a freelance photo editor for various publications in New York, including Newsweek, New York Magazine, Scientific American Magazine, and in Hong Kong for Time Asia, Discovery Magazine, and Next magazines. She spent 8 years living as an expatriate in Moscow, Paris and Hong Kong where she worked both as a photojournalist and as a photo editor covering post-Soviet culture, the first war in Chechnya, and the Bosnian war.
- DARFUR: THE REALITY OF WORKING :OCTOBER 20TH 2007
Alison Morley is the Chair of the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She is the original curator of “The Children of Darfur” which premiered at the United Nations in autumn of 2005. As a photo editor, she has been the photography director of The New York Times Sophisticated Traveler, Audubon, Life, Civilization, Esquire, Mirabella, Elle, and The Los Angeles Times Magazine. She has edited several major monographs and has curated touring exhibitions for Blood and Honey: A Yugoslavian War Journal and The Road to Kabul, both by Ron Haviv. She is on the nominating committee for Visa Pour L’Image photojournalism festival in France, and the World Press Photo organization in the Netherlands. She writes on photography for magazines and books, lectures and leads workshops in the United States as well as in Bosnia, China, France, Hungary, the Philippines and Uganda. FOVEA is honored to include Ms. Morley on our professional Advisory Committee.
RON HAVIV has produced some of the most important images of conflict and other humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War. Haviv is a co-founder of VII, the elite photography agency, and his work is published by top magazines worldwide. He has also published two critically acclaimed collections of his photography and has contributed his wide-ranging body of work to several other books. Haviv has been the central character in three films. His photographs have earned Haviv some of the highest accolades in photography, including awards from World Press Photo, Picture of the Year and the Overseas Press Club, as well as the Leica Medal of Excellence. Mr. Haviv has just returned from six weeks in Sri Lanka following the plight of the children affected by the civil war for UNICEF
MEDIA, MILITARY AND CENSORSHIP, JULY 14th 2007
with Todd Heisler (2006 Pulitzer Prize winner), photojournalist Chris Hondros (just returned from 10th trip to Baghdad), photographer Suzanne Opton, Captain Thomas Sowers of West Point Military Academy, and International Photo Editor Jamie Wellford of Newsweek Magazine
Jamie Wellford. Jamie has been the International Photo Editor at Newsweek Magazine since 2000. Previously he worked at Time, New York Daily News and with Sygma Press, in between jaunts around the globe pursuing twin passions of photography and travel. He studied Urdu in Pakistan in 1985 /86 through the University of California at Berkley. He is a Rhodes Scholar, and a founding member of Fovea Editions
Todd Heisler is a staff photographer for the New York Times. He won the 2006 Pulitzer for Feature Photography for his “Final Salute” series displayed in this exhibit. As a staff photographer for the Rocky Mountain News, Heisler and journalist Jim Sheeler were granted permission to document the return of five fallen Marines to their families. (A Freedom of Information lawsuit in 2005 changed the Pentagon policy banning press coverage of military caskets being returned from the war.) Says Heisler: “People are bombarded with so many images. But if I can make somebody stop for just a short time and to notice things that are happening in the world, then I've done my job.”
Chris Hondros has photographed in most of the world's major conflict zones since the late 1990s and his work has appeared in many international magazines. He won the highest honor in war photography, the Robert Capa Award, for his work from Iraq, including the “Orphans of Tal Afar,” also shown in this exhibit.
Hondros lives in New York City, where he is a staff photographer for Getty Images.
Susanne Opton’s work has earned her international acclaim. Her photographs are in the collections of museums such as the Bibliothque Nationale de France in Paris and the Muse de Elyse in Lausanne, Switzerland. For several years she worked out of her photographic studio in Beacon.“SOLDIERS” is a series of photographic portraits Opton made of young men and women who had recently returned from serving in the military in Iraq.Her photographs have been published in the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Fortune and other publications. She teaches at the International Center of Photography and the Cooper Union, both in New York City.
- VETERANS FROM A WORLD OF CONFLICT JUNE 9th 2007
Panel discussion with photographer Lori Grinker, Iraq War veteran Chris J McGurk, Vietnam War veteran Eugene O’ Brian, Hudson Valley V.A psychologist Dr. Barbara Smith, and moderated by Dr. James Galvin Smith.
Panelists discussed the many ways in which the world’s most intractable conflicts have continued to haunt the lives of former soldiers years and even decades after they have formally ended, and how it is affecting returning soldiers from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan today. The transcript of the discussion will soon be available here.