How to Use Your Visual Voice for Social Impact: Leica Women Summit

281 Park Avenue South,New York NY 10010

12 March, 2022

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How to Use Your Visual Voice for Social Impact Join us for a panel discussion on how to use photography as a means for social impact and representation. Speakers: Sheila Pree Bright, Ana María Arévalo, Debi Cornwall. Additional participants to be confirmed. Photo credit: Debi Cornwall Vaccination Required: Please bring your proof of full vaccination card and valid identification for entry to the event. About Debi Cornwall Leica Women Foto Project 2019 Awardee Debi Cornwall (Brown 1995, Harvard Law School 2000) is a conceptual documentary artist and filmmaker who returned to visual expression in 2014 after a 12-year career as a civil-rights lawyer. Marrying dark humor and empathy with structural critique, she employs photographs, testimony, and other materials to examine American state-created realities. In series, book, or exhibition form, each project is designed to prompt critical engagement. Interdisciplinary collaboration and fostering public discussion are integral to her practice. Her photography books, Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay (Radius Books, 2017)and Necessary Fictions (Radius Books, 2020), have been internationally acclaimed. Debi was an inaugural recipient of the Leica Women Foto Award. Other recent honors include a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Photography and two Speranza Foundation Lincoln City Fellowships; shortlists for the W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant and the Tim Hetherington Trust Visionary Award; and a Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize nomination. Her photographs are held in collections including the Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi (Belgium), the Bibliotèque National (France), the Museum of Fine Art Houston, the Duke University Archive of Documentary Arts, and the Harvard Art Museums. Debi’s practice has been profiled in the photography, art, academic, and popular press, including publications such as National Geographic, the British Journal of Photography, European Photography Magazine, Art in America, Hyperallergic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the New York Times. She has been an adjunct faculty member at the ICP since 2020 About Sheila Pree Bright Sheila Pree Bright is an International Photographic Artist and author of #1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests. She portrays large-scale works that combine a broad range of knowledge of contemporary culture and is known for her series, #1960Now, Suburbia, Plastic Bodies, and Young Americans. Bright work is included in the book and exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture. And she appeared in the 2014 feature-length documentary Through the Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People. She also appeared in the 2016 feature-length documentary film Election Day: Lens Across America. Her series has been exhibited at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Smithsonian National Museum of African American Museum, Washington, DC; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; The Leica Gallery, NY; Turner Contemporary, London, Saatchi Gallery, London and International Center of Photography, New York. Her work is featured in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Emergence Magazine and The Guardian. She is the recipient of several nominations and awards; Recently, she received the Picturing South commission from the High Museum of Art for her new series, Invisible Empire. Her work is included in numerous private and public collections, to name a few; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC; The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA; Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL and Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA. About Ana María Arévalo Gosen 2021 Leica Oskar Barnack Award Winner Ana María Arévalo Gosen (1988) was born in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2009, she moved to Toulouse, France, where she studied Political Sciences (at Institut d’Etudes Politiques) and found her passion for photography (ETPA, Ecole de photographie). In 2014, she moved to Hamburg, Germany, and started to work as a freelance visual storyteller. She uses visual storytelling to advocate for women's rights and social and environmental issues. She is a National Geographic explorer and a member of Ayün Fotógrafas. Mixing rigorous research with intimate stories, she aims to create a positive impact through emotional, straightforward & honest storytelling. Her mission is to trigger lasting social change. Her series on the conditions of women in prisons and pre-trial detention in Latin America, "Días Eternos” (Eternal Days), won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and Camille Lepage award in 2021. In 2020 won the LHSA grant, the LUMIX Photo Award, and the Lucas Dolega Award. In 2019 she won the POY Latam won first place in the category “The strength of women.” In 2021 and 2018, Ana received a grant from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and in 2018 from Women Photograph to continue this work. Ana works for international media such as the New York Times, National Geographic, and El País Semanal. Her work has been exhibited at Photoville, the Helsinki Photo Festival, the Manifesto Festival in Toulouse, the LUMIX Festival in Berlin, and the Leica Gallery in Madrid. Arévalo Gosen lives in Bilbao and frequently develops projects in Latin America.