Insider/Outsider: Voyeur or Agent of Change?

Insider/Outsider is a panel discussion that explores a photographer's right and role in producing in-depth reportage within specific communities. Moderated by David González of the New York Times, this discussion features photographers who have immersed themselves into issues, cultures, and communities, and documented with sympathy and dignity the stories that brought them there. 

Nona Faustine’s series “White Shoes” are nude self-portraits taken in and around the places associated with the 250-year history of slavery in New York City. Recently her work has received worldwide press coverage online and print in publications. 

Quito Ziegler has organized a wide range of collaborative interdisciplinary projects in New York City’s queer+trans communities and co-founded the Department of Transformation artist collective and the Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network, an immigrant rights organization which they co-directed from 2003-2006 while producing large-scale public photography projects on immigration issues.

In “Father Figure,” Zun Lee sought to capture manifestations of Black fatherhood largely ignored by mainstream media, while simultaneously finding redemption for his personal history. His current project, “Fade Resistance,” seeks to restore the narrative impact of thousands of found African American polaroids, and to fill a representational gap in the history of American snapshot photography.