In this era where our screens and our psyches are saturated by images, what is the value of in-depth photography and documentary work?

How has the immediacy of digital communications changed the act of bearing witness?

Has the internet and other emerging digital forms augmented strategic dissemination and audience engagement?

We will be joined by Susan Meiselas, president of the Magnum Foundation, Yukiko Yamagata of the Open Society Foundation’s Documentary Photography Project and Edu Bayer, photographer featured in the 2014 Moving Walls exhibition, which features in-depth social documentary photography.

The discussion will focus largely around the 2014 Moving Walls exhibition --- "Watching You, Watching Me"--- which explores how photography can be both an instrument of surveillance and a tool to expose and challenge its negative impact. We will also discuss the range of new ways people are working with visualization.

The project has been widely acclaimed for its innovative approach to sustaining and disseminating photographic work.

Co-presented by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the Magnum Foundation.