BAGnewsSalon: Looking Since the Storm

I’ve been pro­duc­ing online salons for the blog BAG­news­Notes.  Aca­d­e­mics and pho­tog­ra­phers come together to dis­cuss visual pol­i­tics.  At the next Salon this com­ing Sun­day, we’ll be look­ing at Mario Tama’s New Orleans work.

Look­ing Since the Storm
A BAG­news­Notes Salon fea­tur­ing
Getty Pho­tog­ra­pher Mario Tama

Sun­day, April 5, 2009
5:00 — 6:30 pm PST, 8:00–9:30 pm EST

Since Hur­ri­cane Kat­rina, Getty pho­tog­ra­pher Mario Tama has pro­duced com­pelling doc­u­men­tary images of life in New Orleans.  Three-and-a-half years after the storm, we invite you to this BAG­news­Sa­lon where we will dis­cuss how Mario’s images look to us, one pres­i­dent and a major finan­cial cri­sis later.

In addi­tion to Mario Tama, dis­cus­sants include pro­fes­sors Loret Stein­berg, RIT and Nathan Stormer, U. of Maine ; lawyer and his­to­rian Michael Stein­berg; pho­to­jour­nal­ists Alan Chin, Tim Fadek, Aric Mayer, Nina Berman and Yana Paskova; photographer/publisher Michael Itkoff (Day­light Mag­a­zine); BNN pub­lisher Michael Shaw; and BAG­news­Sa­lon pro­ducer Ida Benedetto. The dis­cus­sion will be mod­er­ated by Cara Finnegan (Uni­ver­sity of Illinois).