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

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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).