TOPICS AND QUESTIONS

These are some of the topics and questions that we will address in the talks:

• We will discuss how photos of the American civil rights movement from the 1960s are reflected in photo reportages of contemporary protests for civil rights and democracy.

• And what about photography and fake news? News photos promise to give a transparent picture of reality, but how truthful are they?

• We will look at the history of the Dutch organisation World Press Photo, which has been a pivot in international photojournalism for 65 years.

• The image of the Indonesian revolution in the Dutch media was rather one-sided. How did Indonesian photojournalists capture that historic event?

• Almost fifty years after General Pinochet’s coup in 1973, the photo archive of Chas Gerretsen, one of the very few photojournalists present at the time, still appears to be a living source of information and processing of the past for Chileans.