“MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao (MFA 2005 Photography and Related Media), a Taiwanese photographer who immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 22 in 1999. He received a BFA from Pratt Institute of Art and Design in 2003 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts.”

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“MPS Digital Photography presents an in-person talk with Sarah Anne Ward, a New York City-based photographer/director specializing in drinks, food, product and packaging photography with a studio in midtown Manhattan. A Rochester Institute of Technology graduate, Sarah is known for her ability to tackle almost any technical challenge with an often quirky and conceptual perspective.”

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“SVA’s i3 Photo Lecture series presents Isadora Kosofsky, a Los Angeles-based documentary photographer focused on highlighting underrepresented communities through long-form and embedded storytelling. Kosofsky is a contributor to National Geographic Magazine, the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, TIME, GEO Germany, Stern, Le Monde and others.”

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“Joe Quint is a documentary filmmaker and photographer from Brooklyn, NY. Widely exhibited, Quint’s work consists largely of telling well-intentioned and respectful stories about the human condition and people on journeys—those who are either experiencing great challenges or who have overcome such challenges. Quint has an ongoing project about the impact of gun violence on a diverse group of Americans and he’s recently completed an award-winning film about a gun violence and a domestic violence survivor who has channeled her traumas into service.”

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“Aundre Larrow is a Jamaican-born photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. From his work as an Adobe Creative Resident exploring stories across the country to working on the set of W. Kamau Bell’s TV series United Shades of America, Larrow seeks to see the fundamental truth in each human being, regardless of background, culture or upbringing. For him, portraiture is the archeologist’s chisel, the biologist’s microscope, the physicist’s Large Hadron Collider.”

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“SVA i3 Lecture series presents British-born photographer Janette Beckman. Beckman began her career in the punk rock era, photographing bands from The Clash to Boy George, as well as three Police album covers. In 1983 she moved to New York to document the underground hip hop scene, photographing pioneers Run DMC, Slick Rick, Salt-N-Pepa, LL Cool J, and many more. She has published five books, the latest Rebels from Punk to Dior in November 2021.”

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“SVA’s i3 Lecture series presents David Burnett, a photojournalist with more than 6 decades of work covering the news, the people, and the visual tempo of our age. “

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Crista Dix is the Griffin Museum of Photography’s new executive director. Dix arrived at the Griffin Museum as the associate director in March 2020 after fifteen years creating and operating her own photography gallery, wall space creative, closing it in 2020. She assumed the role of executive director in January 2022 following the retirement of the legendary Paula Tognarelli, who helmed the Museum for two decades. More Information / Join [here]

“Rania Matar will be giving an online presentation about her work as part of SVA’s i3 Lecture Series. Matar was born and raised in Lebanon and moved to the U.S. in 1984. As a Lebanese-born American woman and mother, her cross-cultural experience and personal narrative inform her photography.”