Getting Your Work Seen: Leica Women Summit

281 Park Avenue South,New York NY 10010

12 March, 2022

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The Art of Getting Your Work Seen Join us for a panel discussion on how to craft attractive pitches and proposals that stand out and deliver impact. Speakers include: Maggie Steber, Natalia Jimenez, Debi Cornwall, with Moderator, Elizabeth Krist. Photo credit: Maggie Steber. Vaccination Required: Please bring your proof of full vaccination card and valid identification for entry to the event. About Maggie Steber Leica Women Foto Project 2022 Juror Maggie Steber is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 2017-2018, and has worked in 71 countries photographing stories on the human condition. She was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by National Geographic Magazine. Other honors include Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2019, the President’s Award from the Overseas Press Club 2019, the Lucie Award for Photojournalism 2019, Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Foundation Awards, Pictures of the Year Awards, Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, the Alicia Patterson Grant, the Ernst Haas Grant and a Knight Foundation Grant. Steber’s photographs are included in the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Foundation Collection and the Richter Library Collections at the University of Miami. Earlier in her career, Steber worked as a photo editor for Associated Press and Director of Photography at The Miami Herald, as well as a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine. She is affiliated with VII Photo Agency and lives in Miami, FL. About Debi Cornwall Leica Women Foto Project 2019 Awardee Debi Cornwall (Brown 1995, Harvard Law School 2000) is a conceptual documentary artist 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 Natalia Jiménez Leica Women Foto Project 2022 Juror Natalia is a picture editor on the National desk at The Washington Post, where she covered the Trump presidency and 2020 election. Before joining the Post, she managed the photography team at NBC News where she also art directed and commissioned illustrations. She has served as a juror for photography awards for the Overseas Press Club, American Photography 37, and NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism. Natalia was faculty on the first Women Photograph workshop held in Latin America in 2019 and was a mentor in their 2021 program. She was first drawn to visual editing while an assistant to photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb as they developed longform visual narratives through book publishing. Though she has focused on digital storytelling for most of her career, she retains an appreciation for the tactile experience of photography books and aims to apply that thoughtfulness to her everyday work.