Events 2009
Czech and American Lecturers Discuss the Importance and Ethics in Photojournalism with Future Journalist
More than 120 students from several universities packed the auditorium to overflowing. Photo John Vance
October 5, 2009
The ethics of photojournalism, the impact of photographs on the news and the trends currently affecting photojournalism and documentary photography are the topics of a seminar jointly offered by the Alexia Foundation, Charles University’s Social Sciences Faculty and the U.S. Embassy in Prague on October 5-6.
Speakers include freelance and documentary photographer Ami Vitale a past Alexia grant winner; Michele Stephenson, a former director of photography at TIME Magazine; Karel Tuma, an award-winning Czech photographer; Filip Lab, a photographer, author and professor at Charles University’s Photography Department; and James Dooley, the former director of photography at Newsday. Mr. Dooley is now the Alexia Foundation’s executive administrator.
In addition to offering their impressions of photojournalism in the Czech Republic, participants can share their photo portfolios with the lecturers, who for years determined what photos ran in some of the world’s most prestigious photojournalism publications.
The two-day seminar was opened by Charles University Vice Dean Jan Jirak and U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Mary Thomson-Jones, herself a former journalist.
At the faculty, an Alexia Foundation’s exhibition presenting work of cooperating photographers has been opened.
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