Photography Symposium Dramatic Reality:
Photojournalism
and Documentary
Photography Today
On April 25th 2008 the National Media Museum presented a day of talks from photographers and photography scholars exploring how global events and concerns are accurately documented in an age of increasing globalisation, centralisation and commercialism
Geoff Dyer - download mp3 (21mb)
Listen to his keynote address
Paul Lowe - download mp3 (15.1mb)
Fugitive shadows, Tracing the legacy of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans in contemporary documentary photography.
Simon Roberts - download mp3 (19.3mb)
In 'rePresenting Russia' Simon discusses his approach to documenting modern day Russia for his book Motherland.
Anna Fox - download mp3 (16mb)
Photographing People, a comment on the human condition? Work from the new monograph:
Anna Fox: Photographs 1983-2007, (Photoworks/Val Williams 2007).
Donovan Wylie - download mp3 (16.9mb)
Donavan discusses his British Watchtowers project and the changing role of Magnum photographers.
Gerry Badger - download mp3 (21mb)
Gerry discusses whether photojournalism is still relevant, with particular reference to Magnum.
Jon Levy - download mp3 (12.9mb)
Jon discusses his role as Editor-in-Chief of award winning photojournalism magazine Foto8.
