- Date: Thursday, Sept. 16
- Time: 9: 30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Place: St. John’s College, 2111 Lower Mall, UBC
- Parking: Available in the West Parkade on Lower Mall.
Enter at Gate 6 off Northwest Marine Drive.
In recent years, contentious issues surrounding photojournalism
have attracted almost as much attention as the visuals themselves.
A free symposium to be held Sept. 16 at UBC’s St. John’s College
will provide an opportunity for members of the public to discuss
such topics as threats to privacy, rapid developments in technology,
and the emotional power of war photography.
Speakers at the symposium, The Ethics and Aesthetics of Photojournalism,
will include Donna Logan, director of UBC’s Sing Tao School of Journalism,
Debra Pentecost from SFU’s School of Communication and Rolf Nobel,
a professor at the University of Hamburg.
Participants also include well-known photographer and UBC Fine
Arts Assoc. Prof. Ken Lum and Henri Beunders, chair of History of
Media and Culture at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Some speakers
will be using slides to illustrate their talks and there will be
a roundtable discussion at the end of the program.
The symposium is being presented by UBC’s Institute for European
Studies and the Consulate General of the Netherlands. It is being
held in conjunction with the World Press Photo Exhibition which
continues to Sept. 25 in the Hongkong Bank of Canada Atrium at 885
W. Georgia St.
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