Reception to follow at the USC Fisher Museum of Art.

ADMISSION:
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP beginning Monday, October 7, at 9 a.m. 

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DESCRIPTION:
Join us for a presentation by documentarians and journalists who will describe the challenges they face as women in places of conflict, and share how visual media can be maximized to create change. Moderated by the director of the USC Annenberg Media Center Christina Bellantoni, the panel will feature journalist Souad Mekhennet, filmmaker Kirsten Johnson, photographer Carol Guzy, and journalist and filmmaker Andi Gitow. 

Following the conversation, the audience is invited to attend a reception and viewing of Facing Survival by David Kassan at the USC Fisher Museum of Art. The exclusive exhibition, presented in partnership with USC Shoah Foundation, features Kassan’s paintings and drawings of more than a dozen Holocaust survivors, and will be supplemented by Dimensions in Testimony, an interactive interview presentation.

Souad Mekhennet is a journalist and author who covers conflicts and terrorist attacks for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other news outlets. Her memoir, I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad, was published in 2017.



Kirsten Johnson is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and faculty member at NYU. Her subjects range from violence in South Sudan and Liberia to Osama bin Laden’s driver and Edward Snowden. She also directed the award-winning autobiographical documentary Cameraperson (2016).



Carol Guzy is a staff photographer for The Washington Post who previously shot for The Miami Herald. She is the first journalist and one of only four people to have won the Pulitzer Prize four times.



Andi Gitow is a two-time Emmy Award–winning journalist, filmmaker, and strategic communication specialist who has traveled to and reported from more than 50 countries, covering human rights abuses, humanitarian crises, conflict, and genocide. She has held a variety of roles at the United Nations and NBC Network News.



Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation and the USC Fisher Museum of Art.