Festival Speaker Series
There is no charge for these programs
Black Birth
Thursday, February 27, 7:00 pm ET via Zoom
Artists talk with photographers: Brian Branch-Price and Benita Mayo
Special Guest: Jennie Joseph, one of the world’s most respected midwives and authorities on maternal health: healthy pregnancies, healthy deliveries
Moderator: Lisa DuBois
This panel will explore the love and respect for Black women during childbirth but also bear witness to the stark racial disparities in maternal health care in the United States.
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More information will be available soon on the following panels.
Ukraine: Living with War
Tuesday, March 18, 1:30 pm ET
Oksana Parafeniuk
Laetitia Vancon
Svetlana Bachenanova, Publisher, FotoEvidence
Moderator: Sarah Leen
Photographers from Ukraine: Love + War, published by FotoEvidence
Visual Storytelling and AI
Tuesday, March 25, 1:30 pm ET
Santiago Lyon: Advocacy and Education with the Content Authenticity Initiative.
Rickey Rogers: Global Editor, Reuters
Kate Bubacz: Formerly WSJ, now head of visuals, Rest of World
Chariss May: Photographer
Moderator: Mary-Irene Marek: Vice President of Marketing, Leica Camera Inc.
How the media industry is protecting the veracity of photographs in the age of synthetic imagery
I Grant You Refuge - Gaza Photo Exhibition
Date to be confirmed
Paolo Patruno, Curator
Shadi Al-Tabatib, Photographer
Shadi Al-Tabatib in one of six Gazan photographers from a collective working in Gaza since the war began in October 2024. The exhibition is curated by Italian photographer Paolo Patruno.
Photographers Under 30 Making a Difference
Tuesday, April 8, 1:30 pm ET
Iva Sidash, Ukraine
Fatima-Tuj-Johora, Bangladesh
Others to be announced.
A new generation of photographers born at the dawn of the digital and social media age are creating a new vision for photography untethered from 150 years of analog photography.
What We Bring Forward:
Women Photographers Influencing the Archive
Date to be confirmed
Aldedie Delgado
Susan Mieselas
Keisha Scarville
J. Sybylla Smith, Moderator
This panel brings three activist artists together to discuss the archive of history and culture and how a global array of female-identifying photographers utilize lens-based work to document their lived experiences.
Crossroads of Climate Action
Visual Narratives of Communities on the Frontlines
Tuesday, April 22, 1:30 pm ET
Jakob Dall
Kiliii Yuyan
Pamela EA
Justin Dalaba, Moderator
Three world-renowned explorers and documentary photographers will share their unique perspectives on stories at the intersection of climate justice and environmental challenges across continents and culture.
2025 ZEKE Award Winners
Tuesday, April 29, 1:30 pm ET
Jan Banning, Healing Wounds: Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Carlos Folgoso Sueiro, Behond the Lake
Maggie Soladay: Moderator
Join us with the winners of the 2025 ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography and the ZEKE Award for Systemic Change
Rania Matar
From Personal to Universal
Wednesday, May 7, 6;00 pm ET (exact time to be determined)
In-person artist talk at the Leica Gallery, Boston
As a Lebanese-born American woman and mother, Rania Matar has dedicated her artistic practice to exploring both sides of her cultural background, cross-cultural experience, and personal narrative.
This America
Tuesday, May 13, 1:30 pm ET
Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur: American Sketches: People of a Place at This Time
Richard Sharum, Spina America
Rebecca Kiger, Appalachia
Dudley Brooks, Moderator
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