Photography Category
Two members of Documentography, Guilhem Alandry and Anna Kåri, will be at the Frontline Club to discuss their collective and their techniques, including an innovative joint project about a shanty town built on a rubbish tip in Sierra Leone commissioned by Save the Children. ...more
Photograph: Patrick Chauvel
A special event about reporting from Vietnam with some of the giants of war reporting including Jon Swain, Michael Nicholson and Patrick Chauvel. ...more
Daniel Schwartz has travelled and documented the Central Asian republics since the early years of their independence from the Soviet Union. His artistic book about the region Travelling Through the Eye of History captures the ancient allure of the old Silk Roads and the modern-day realities from Xinjiang province to the Caspian Sea, via Afghanistan. This event will be moderated by Steppe magazine associate editor Mitchell Albert. ...more
Moldova is one of the main source countries for trafficking women and children, up to 10% of the female population are sold into prostitution abroad. Dana Popa will be speaking at the Frontline Club about the issues surrounding sex trafficking and her experiences as a photographer. Mark Sealy, director of Autograph-ABP will be moderating this event. Read more about this event on the Frontline Blog here: http://frontlineclub.com/blogs/theforum/2010/05/photographing-the-sex-trade.html ...more
The photographers behind the pictures taken in the aftermath of January's earthquake in Haiti flocked to scenes of razed buildings and distraught victims. David Levene and Inigo Gilmore were among them. These accomplished Guardian journalists will be in conversation with the Guardian's head of photography, Roger Tooth, about what the real images of the damage wrought by the Haiti earthquake are like, what is being censored out in the media and the role that photographers play in such tragedies. ...more
Ed Kashi is a US-based photojournalist and filmmaker whose work spans over 60 countries including Nigeria, Iraq and Afghanistan. In March's In the Picture,Ed Kashi will explore his experiences as a photojournalist, focusing on his work in the Niger Delta. ...more
Followed by a Q&A moderated by photographer Chris Steele-Perkins
British photographer David Hoffman, who specialises in coverage of protest and has dedicated his career to documenting racial and social conflict, policing and social exclusion, will focus on the war being waged on photography through oppressive policing and privacy laws that limit press freedom. ...more
Award-winning photographer Rena Effendi will be at the Frontline Club to discuss her new book Pipe Dreams - A chronicle of lives along the pipeline, that examines the reality behind the corporate image in a country transformed by the discovery of oil.
The photographer will discuss her journey along the the 1,700 km oil pipeline through her native Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey and the stories she collected along the way of people and their struggle against poverty. ...more
As part of our Associate Membership programme The Frontline Club are proud to announce our second Networking Event, with the theme of Photography.We will start the evening with a panel discussion on the impact of citizen journalism on photography. The panel includes Turi Munthe (CEO, Demotix), Olivier Laurent (News Editor, British Journal of Photography), Marc Vallée (Photographer) and Matthew Eltringham (BBC News, User Generated Content) and will be chaired by Ben Hammersley (Associate Editor, WIRED)Frontline are delighted to announce that this event will be sponsored by Chivas Regal and Beefeater Gin and a selection of their products will be served... ...more
All events are open to the public Followed by Q&A moderated by Catherine Philp the Diplomatic Correspondant of The Times.
British photojournalist Jason P. Howe spent 5 years visiting some of the most war ravaged areas of Colombia. He lived with FARC rebels, right wing death squads, cocaine producers, Government forces and the internally displaced to produce the images for his book COLOMBIA: Between the Lines.As part of the event the Frontline Club will screen the images from his book and Jason will discuss his experiences documenting Colombia behind the headlines.... ...more