"War is Only Half the Story"

An Evening with Photojournalists
Sara Terry and Louie Palu

Thursday, October 29
6:30-8:00pm

For this final IRIS Nights program during the POYi exhibit, the Annenberg Space Photography will be offering a unique a conversation between two brilliant photojournalists, Sara Terry and Louie Palu, who will come together to discuss their experiences covering global conflict and share their work on the Aftermath Project.

Sara Terry is the founder of the Aftermath Project, a nonprofit organization whose grant program helps photographers cover the aftermath of conflict. She has been greatly recognized for her photography, including a long-term project about the aftermath of war in Bosnia entitled "Aftermath: Bosnia's Long Road to Peace," which was published in September 2005 by Channel Photographics.

Terry's work has been widely exhibited at such venues as the United Nations, the Photography Museum in Antwerp, and the Moving Walls Exhibition at the Open Society Institute in New York. Her photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and in many private collections. In 2005, Terry received a prestigious Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship for her work in Bosnia. She is currently working on her next long-term project, "Forgiveness and Conflict: Lessons from Africa."

Louie Palu has worked as a photojournalist for more than 20 years, focusing on the human condition and subjects frequently ignored by the popular media. Palu has been covering the war in Afghanistan since 2006 and has made several trips to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for a long-term project on the prison. His work has been published in publications such as The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic..

His photography has also appeared in numerous books, catalogues, festivals and international exhibitions, including the George Eastman House, Ping Yao International PhotographyFestival in China, the Fotografia International Festival of Rome, the New York Photo Festival. Palu's photos have been selected for the photojournalism festival Visa Pour l'Image in Perpignan, France five times. He has received several awards from the White House News Photographers Association and was selected as the 2008 Canadian Photojournalist of the Year by the News Photographers Association of Canada. Palu is a 2008 Aftermath Project grant winner.

To register for the Sara Terry's and Louie Palu's conversation, please click here. We recommend that you make your reservations soon, as our lectures tend to fill up quickly. In response to requests from our guests, we are releasing tickets at two separate times; today (Monday, October 19) at noon and tomorrow morning (Tuesday, October 20), at 9:30am.

If you are still unable to reserve seats through our ticketing system, don't be discouraged... 10 minutes prior to the lecture we release any seats that have not been claimed by ticketholders to standby guests.

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