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What can we learn of the shift in how journalists accessed the battlefront in previous wars compared to the embed process in Iraq and Afghanistan, and fairly open access during the Arab Spring? And from the enduring power of the still image in the video age? How has technology dramatically changed the way news organizations get photos from the field and distribute them globally? What does the rise of local journalists reporting mean, vs high cost of foreigners and low media budgets? How should we react to ISIS and its use of images? And how does this impact the role, public perception and ethos of War Photographers, agencies and media?

Presented by Studio55 | @st55nyc.

Moderated by Fred Ritchin, ICP Dean of School

Panelists

Sebastian Meyer, co-founder, Metrography Agency
Carolyn Cole, photographer, Los Angeles Times
Michael Christopher Brown, photographer
Stefano Carini, Editor-in-Chief, Metrography Agency
Cynthia Young, Curator of the Robert Capa Archive at ICP

Bios

Sebastian Meyer started working as a photographer in 2004. Since then he has published photographs in TIME, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Sunday Times Magazine amongst many other international newspapers and magazines. Meyer also shoots video and has made documentaries for National Geographic, The Guardian, TIME, Channel 4 News, and PBS. Since 2009 he has been based in Iraq where apart from doing his own reporting, he has been setting up the first Iraqi photography agency, Metrography.
instagram:@metrography_iraq
twitter: @metrography

After studying photography and photojournalism Stefano Carini worked as photo editor for NOOR Images in Amsterdam. In 2012, together with an international community of authors, he founded the PanAut Collective, a platform for dialogue, exploration and production around the visual narrative. He trained as a photojournalist, covering events and social issues in Italy, UK and Egypt, but he currently works solely on long-term, multidisciplinary projects where he tries to stretch the borders of documentary photography. Carini’s main objective is to be part of, inspire and push forward a cultural revolution in the ways and forms we produce, consume and process images and visual documents. He lives and works in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, where he is the Editor in Chief of Metrography, the first Iraqi photo agency.
instagram: @metrography_iraq
twitter: @metrography

Carolyn Cole has covered national and international news for the Los Angeles Times since 1994. Her work on the civil crisis in Liberia won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Cole is a two-time winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal for war photography from the Overseas Press Club of America–for her work in Iraq and Liberia (2003) and her photographs of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (2002). She has also earned four World Press Photo awards. In 2010, Cole covered the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Cole was a finalist in the 2011 Pulitzer Prizes' news photography category for her memorable images from last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. She spent 85 days in the gulf photographing one of the worst environmental disasters in history–day-to-day dogged visual reporting at its finest. This year marks the sixth time Cole has been a Pulitzer finalist, a record for a Times staffer.
instagram: @latimes @latimesphotos
twitter: @carolyn_cole

Michael Christopher Brown Michael Christopher Brown was raised in the Skagit Valley, a farming community in Washington State. Often using a camera phone as a primary recording device, his current work explores the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Sakhalin (2008), he captured the remote Russian island, while Broadway (2009) focused on New Yorkers amidst the financial crisis. He also put together a series of works from road and train trips throughout China (2009/2010); and, in 2011, documented the Libyan Revolution using a camera phone, exploring ethical distance and the iconography of warfare. A contributing photographer at publications such as National Geographic, TIME, and The New York Times Magazine, he was subject of the 2012 HBO documentary Witness: Libya. His photographs were exhibited at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Instituto Cervantes (New York), The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), the Annenberg Space for Photography and the Brooklyn Museum. His forthcoming book, Libyan Sugar, will be published in 2015 by Twin Palms Publishers.
website: http://www.mcbphotos.com/
instagram: @michaelchristopherbrown
twitter: @mcbphotos

Cynthia Young is the Curator of the Robert Capa Archive at ICP. She recently curated the ICP exhibitions Capa in Color, which looked at Capa's color photography for the first time; We Went Back: Photographs from Europe, 1933-1956 by Chim, a retrospective of Chim, Capa's great friend and colleague at Magnum; and The Mexican Suitcase: The Rediscovered Negatives of the Spanish Civil War by Capa, Chim, and Taro in 2010. All three exhibitions have traveled and continue to travel throughout Europe, Mexico, and Brazil.