Featuring:

• Ira Lupu, photographer, visual artist, and curator
• Alex Majoli, photographer & member of Magnum Photos
• Susan Meiselas, documentary photographer & member of Magnum Photos
• Rafał Milach, visual artist, activist, photographer, and educator
• Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus of the International Center of Photography

In what ways do images made by Ukrainian and foreign photographers help others to gain a better understanding of the country and its people? Can photographs today still serve as credible witnesses to war and its horrors as they did in the twentieth century?

Susan Meiselas delivers opening remarks. Two photographers who have been working in Ukraine, Alex Majoli and Rafał Milach, will discuss their experiences on the ground and compare it to other conflicts that they have covered. They will be joined by ICP’s Fred Ritchin and artist/photographer Ira Lupu, originally from Odesa, who together curated the recent exhibition, “In Ukraine,” consisting of photographs, videos, paintings, books, and news clippings made primarily by Ukrainian artists and documentarians. They will discuss the crucial need for a larger understanding of Ukraine and its people through art and culture, not only through the lens of war.

Presented in partnership with Magnum Photos, whose photographers are renowned for their coverage of world events since the Spanish Civil War, and which is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

This event is presented as the annual conversation on photography generously underwritten by Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos.