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Virtual roundtable discussion with industry leading photo editors in conversation with curator Lauren Walsh.

Moderator: 

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.

Panelist 1: 

MaryAnne Golon is the Director of Photography at the Washington Post. Since she joined the Post, the newspaper has won a Pulitzer Prize for photography. Prior to this position, she was Director of Photography for Time magazine. During her tenure at Time she oversaw the photography teams that produced the magazine’s special Hurricane Katrina edition as well as its unique black-bordered 9/11 edition. 

Panelist 2: 

Danese Kenon is the Director of Video and Photography at the Philadelphia Inquirer. She was a visual fellow at the Poynter Institute, holds a master’s degree in photography from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and won a Pulliam Fellowship with the Indianapolis Star. She has worked as a visuals editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and was later the Deputy Director of video/multimedia at the Tampa Bay Times.

Panelist 3: 

Sharbil Nammour leads the Global Security and Risk Team at VICE Media in supporting journalists and teams worldwide, across all conditions and challenges. He specialises in transforming free-spirited mayhem into organised chaos.