Professor Peter Lucas will moderate this conversation on human rights and visual imaging with photographer Stephen Ferry author of Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict.

Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict (Umbrage/ Icono, 2012) is the result of over ten years of documentation and investigation into Colombia’s complex armed conflict. Violentology received the first Tim Hetherington Grant, awarded by World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch for the long-term documentation of human rights issues.

Stephen Ferry was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. His father, David Ferry, is a poet and translator, and his mother, Anne Ferry, was a professor of English literature. At the age of 12, he began to hang around a neighborhood camera store, where he learned to develop and print. Since the late 1980s, Stephen has traveled to dozens of countries, covering social and political change, human rights, and the environment. He has contributed to the New York Times, GEO, TIME, National Geographic and many other publications. Stephen also works as a visual investigator with Human Rights Watch.

His first book, I Am Rich Potosí: The Mountain that Eats Men (Monacelli, 1999) documents the historical legacy of the Spanish Conquest on the Quechua miners of Potosí, Bolivia.
His work has received numerous prizes in international photographic contests, such as World Press Photo, Picture of the Year and Best of Photojournalism. He has received grants and fellowships from the National Geographic Expeditions Council, the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the Howard Chapnick Fund, the Knight International Press Fellowship, the Getty Images Grant for Good grant, the Open Society Foundations and the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund.

Peter Lucas teaches at New York University and the New School. His teaching and scholarly writing focuses on human rights with an emphasis on participatory media, documentary practice, photography, the poetics of witnessing, human rights education, and youth media. 

As a photographer, Peter Lucas focuses on personal photography, found images, and documentary aesthetics. He exhibits regularly in New York and Rio de Janeiro. 

This event is free and open to the public. ID required for entry.

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