Revealing War: A Conversation about Art and Journalism in the 21st Century

Negative Publicity, photograph by Edmund Clark.

Responding to photographer Edmund Clark’s documentation of the American naval base at Guantánamo Bay and Tim Hetherington’s photojournalistic coverage of civil wars in Afghanistan and West Africa, this panel examines the moral responsibilities and contemporary challenges of representing suffering in conflict and features:

Nicholas Schmidle, investigative journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Ferris Professor of Journalism
Daniel Heyman, artist, Lecturer in Visual Arts, Lewis Center for the Arts
Katherine Bussard, Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography

T. Barton Thurber, Associate Director for Collections and Exhibitions, will moderate.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Revealing Pictures: Photographs from the Christopher E. Olofson Collection.

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