We just finished this press release for an exciting panel on image ethics for the First Amendment Forum here at Southern Oregon University. We are holding the forum earlier this year so that we can combine it with the opening of an exbition of photojournalism at the Schneider Museum of Art.
Can you believe what you see?
Ashland, Ore. December 12, 2006 – “Can you believe what you see:
The Impact and Integrity of News Media Images in the Digital Age,” will
be the topic for 2007’s Thomas W. Pyle First Amendment Forum at
Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Ore.
Using a grant from The Ashland Daily Tidings, the annual Thomas W.
Pyle First Amendment Forum will feature three professional
photographers who will explore the veracity and impact of visual images
in the digital age on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007, at 7 p.m., in the Rogue
River Room of the Stevenson Union on the SOU campus.
The keynote speaker is Dr. Paul Martin Lester author of “Images
that Injure.” Dr. Lester will explore the ethics of visually-mediated
messages in an age of increasing digital manipulation.
Subsequently a panel, comprised of national award-winning news
photographer, David Burnett; Bob Pennell, the photo editor of The
Medford Mail Tribune; and SOU Assistant Professor Dennis Dunleavy will
explore the impact and integrity of news photography from the local,
national and international perspective.
David Burnett is a recipient of the Magazine Photographer of the
Year award; a World Press Photo of the Year winner, and a Robert Capa
Award winner from the Overseas Press Club. In 2006, he also won a First
Place in the Presidential category in the White House News
Photographers' Association.
Bob Pennell is a multiple winner of Oregon AP news photography awards and has been at the Mail Tribune since 1983.
Dr. Dennis Dunleavy joined the SOU Communication Department in
2005. Previously, Dunleavy spent more than 20 years as a
photojournalist and correspondent in the U.S., Mexico, and Central
America. Dunleavy's blog.
The SOU Department of Communication is also collaborating with the
Schneider Museum of Art at SOU to present the collected work of David
Burnett: “Measure of Time,” and Dennis Dunleavy: “The Light Becomes
Us,” at the Schneider Museum on the SOU campus from Jan. 9 – Feb 24,
2007.
The First Amendment Forum will be taped for broadcast on Rogue
Valley Community Television, and David Burnett will be a guest on “The
Jefferson Exchange,” on Jefferson Public Radio.
The contact for these events is Dennis Dunleavy, (541) 552-8433; [email protected].