Haiti Aftermath: A Look Back at the First Week
Sunday, February 7, 2010
3:00-4:30 pm EST; Noon-1:30 pm PST
http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/

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

Come watch the next Salon on Sunday. We will examine a small group of images from the first week after 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.

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

Tim, Chris and Willie just returned from photographing in Haiti.