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The American Political and Social Landscape through Visual Communication

Admission is free. Reservations requested. To RSVP, go to annenberg.usc.edu/rsvp.

Visual communication plays a critical role in social change and has contributed to numerous social and political movements. Nina Berman and Jon Lowenstein, two photographers from Noor, the award-winning Amsterdam-based photojournalism collective, will present their work and discuss the power of communication through images. The program and discussion will be moderated by Larry Gross, director of the School of Communication at USC Annenberg.

Nina Berman will share work from her books Purple Hearts, an acclaimed series on wounded veterans from the Iraq War, and Homeland, which documents the militarization of American life and the fantasies we construct in pursuit of empire and security. Berman is the recipient of grants and awards in art and journalism from numerous organizations, including World Press Photo, the Open Society Institute and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She was an artist in residence at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and her work was included in the museum’s 2010 biennial.

Jon Lowenstein will show his award-winning work Shadow Lives USA, a ten-year journey documenting the world of undocumented Latino immigrants. His images present the daily reality of unauthorized existence—deportations, border crossings, fragmented families—in the context of increasing political concern over the integrity of America’s borders. Lowenstein was recently named the Joseph Patterson Albright Fellow by the Alicia Patterson Foundation and garnered a Getty Award for Editorial Images.

Organized by the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: Annenberg School For Communication (ASC) -

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski