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Virtual Roundtable discussion with curators Lauren Walsh and Keith Miller in conversation with featured photographers.
Moderators:
Keith Miller is a curator, filmmaker, and artist. Since 2008 he has been the curator of the Gallatin Galleries and has curated over forty gallery and museum exhibitions. From 2001 to 2008 he was the curator of the SAC Gallery at Stony Brook University. In 2015 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and he has been a part-time professor at Gallatin School for Individualized Study at NYU since 2006 and was awarded the Gallatin School Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014.
Lauren Walsh teaches at The New School and New York University, where she is the Director of the Gallatin Photojournalism Lab. Her recent book, Conversations on Conflict Photography, is a powerful exploration of the visual documentation of war and humanitarian crisis and is the subject of the current SMP exhibition. She is the Director of Lost Rolls America, a national public archive of photography and memory. Her forthcoming book is Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter.
Panelists:
Nina Berman is an American photographer who covered the conflict in Bosnia and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan in the late 1990s. She now focuses attention on the aftermath of war and contemporary political and social landscapes in the US. Her photographs and videos have been exhibited at over one hundred venues worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Poland, and Dublin Contemporary. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Open Society Foundations, World Press Photo, and Hasselblad, among others. She is a professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a 2021 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Eman Helal is an Egyptian photographer based in Cairo. She covered the 2011 Egyptian revolution and its aftermath, including a project on injured protesters as well as work on sectarian violence against Christians, especially after the 2013 military coup. She also focuses on social issues, such as the physical and sexual harassment of women in Egypt, and efforts to empower women there. She has freelanced for the Associated Press, where her photos were distributed internationally, and her images have appeared in the New York Times, Stern, and Newsweek, among other publications.
Helal was named one of Magnum Foundation’s five Human Rights Fellows in 2013, and returned to work with the Foundation again as a Fellow in 2016. She judged the Shawkan Photo Award in 2015, and both the Egypt Press Photo Award and the Portenier Human Rights Bursary competition in 2016. Helal’s work has been exhibited in the Museum of Photography in Braunschweig, Germany, the Pil’ours International Photo Festival in Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France, the DOCField 15 photography festival in Barcelona, Spain, and the Addis Photo Festival in Ethiopia, among other venues.
Rodrigo Abd is a staff photographer with the Associated Press (AP). Born in Argentina, he is currently based in Peru. He has covered upheaval in Bolivia, gang violence in Guatemala, natural disaster in Haiti, conflict in Libya and Syria, and he has embedded two times with US troops in Afghanistan.
In 2013, he was part of the AP team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for coverage of the civil war in Syria. He has won the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University for excellence in coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Overseas Press Club of America, and the China International Press Photo Contest, among others.