Don’t call Sudharak Olwe a teacher. When the photojournalist from India met with a class from Venice High School at the Getty Center to discuss technique and creativity in photography, he turned the gathering from a workshop into a conversation. “I do an exchange,” said Olwe. “I start the dialogue and then the communication happens. [...]
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Tags: Community Photoworks, Engaged Observers, high school students, K-12 programs, Photography, Sudharak Olwe, Venice High School
“Witnesses in Action,” the documentary film series I curated earlier this month, followed the lenses of brave and talented photographers who took their cameras to far-flung locales. We started in mile-long factories in China, travelled to bizarre beached shipwrecks in Pakistan, hid under the jackets of citizen journalists in Burma, peeked into kids’ closets in [...]
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Tags: documentaries, documentary photography, DVDs, Edward Burtynsky, Engaged Observers, James Nachtwey, Jennifer Baichwal, Lauren Greenfield, Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark, movies, photographs, Sebastião Salgado, Tim Hetherington, W. Eugene and Aileen M. Smith
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Photographer Susan Meiselas appears at the Getty Center this Friday evening to talk about her work and screen her 1991 film Pictures from a Revolution. Joining her to discuss the depiction of Latin America is Miguel Tinker Salas, professor of Latin American studies at Pomona College. In 1978, Meiselas went to Nicaragua. She left with [...]
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Tags: documentaries, documentary photography, Engaged Observers, free events, lectures, Nicaragua, photographs, Susan Meiselas
One night when I was 10, I sat down to do some homework, reading a speech in my history book. It was just another day, just another assignment. But as I read this speech, I became confused and angry. Every day at school, I recited the Pledge of Allegiance, which promised that we in the [...]
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Tags: documentary photography, Engaged Observers, history, Leonard Freed, Martin Luther King Jr., photographs
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