Please join us on Sunday for the next BAGnewsSALON

(to be held several hours before, and, yes, counter-programming the Superbowl)

Haiti Aftermath: A Look Back at the First Week

Sunday, February 7, 2010

   3:00-4:30 pm EST

This BAGnewsSalon will examine a small group of images from the week following the devastating Haitian earthquake. From these pictures, we hope to consider various issues, including:

- the role, boundaries and "weighting" of the graphic and sensational

- how much the pictures presented a representative, as opposed to a generic or stereotyped view of the Haitian people

- whether the pictures might have overly skewed toward human suffering and physical devastation at the expense of, say, the general scale of the disaster, the response of Haitian authorities, the impact on different Haitian social classes, the unfolding of the relief effort, etc.

Those scheduled to participate include: professors Loret Steinberg (R.I.T.), Nathan Stormer (U. of Maine) and Fred Ritchen (NYU); photographer and BAGnewsNotes contributor Alan Chin; photographers Erin Siegel, Aric Mayer, Tim Fadek (Polaris), Chris Hondros (Getty) and Willie Davis (Veras); host Michael Shaw (publisher - BAGnewsNotes); BAGnewsSALON producer Neil Harris; and moderator Cara Finnegan (U. of Illinois).

Tim, Chris and Willie were all shooting in Haiti that week.

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The BAGnewsSalon is an on-line, real-time discussion of selected images between invited guests in a live chat room on the BAGnewsNotes blog.

(We will also try to work in some of your thoughts or questions via moderated comments.)