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Fred Ritchin, photographer and dean emeritus of the International Center of Photography, and ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck discuss the role graphic images have in photojournalism to raise political awareness. Looking at iconic historic examples, Ritchin unpacks widely-held ideas about documentary truth, examining how photography can shine light on violence and repression, while also questioning the ways in which this transmission might be limited.
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Fred Ritchin is Dean Emeritus of the International Center of Photography and previously was professor of Photography and Imaging at New York University. Ritchin served as picture editor of the New York Times Magazine, created the first multimedia version of the New York Times, and then conceived and edited the Times’s first non-linear online non-linear documentary project, Recently he helped found the online visual journal Fotodemic.org, conceptualized the Four Corners Project to provide greater context to photographs, and also launched TheFifthCorner.org, a resource for those interested in exploring and implementing the current paradigm shift in visual media. He writes, lectures, and teaches courses on image-based strategies for social justice and human rights in multiple venues.
Wolfgang Kaleck founded the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights with other internationally renowned lawyers in Berlin in 2007. As a lawyer, he represents whistleblower Edward Snowden, among others. Kaleck has also published numerous books.
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