[Sci-tech-public] Special Seminar - Knight Science Journalism at MIT

[Eric Strattman]

Ethics and Forensics in the age of Photoshop Photojournalism

Tuesday, April 5, 2011
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Light reception to follow.

MIT Bartos Theater -- lower level of E15



There is new technology that can detect altered photographs, and even  
identify the camera that took them---like a ballistics test.
Come hear about the history of faked photos and what news  
organizations can do about them.


Speakers:

  Hany Farid, mathematician and digital forensics specialist at  
Dartmouth University.
Hany Farid received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and  
Applied Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1989. He  
received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of  
Pennsylvania in 1997. Following a two-year post-doctoral position in  
Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, he joined the Computer Science  
Department at Dartmouth in 1999. Hany is the William H. Neukom 1964  
Distinguished Professor of Computational Science, and the Director of  
the Neukom Institute for Computational Science. He is the recipient of  
an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.   
 From digital forensics to the digital reconstruction of Ancient  
Egyptian tombs, Hany works and plays with digital media at the  
crossroads of computer science, engineering, mathematics, optics, and  
psychology.

Santiago Lyon, director of photography for Associated Press.
Santiago Lyon is director of photography of The Associated Press,  
responsible for the AP's global photo report and the hundreds of  
photographers and photo editors worldwide who produce it. He has 26  
years’ experience in news service photography and has won multiple  
photojournalism awards for his coverage of conflicts around the globe.  
Under Lyon's direction, the war in Iraq earned the AP its 28th  
Pulitzer Prize for photography in 2005, for work by a team of  
photographers.  The AP's winning entry consisted of 20 photos from  
Iraq by 11 different photographers, five of them Iraqis. In 2007 the  
AP won its 30th Pulitzer Prize for photography for an image made by  
Oded Balilty showing an Israeli woman attempting to block a line of  
Israeli riot police. Lyon joined AP in 1991 in Cairo, Egypt after  
working for United Press International and Reuters. He has covered  
stories in over 50 countries including Mexico, Central and South  
America, the 1991 Gulf War, Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Israel,  
Palestine, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Yemen, Sri Lanka and  
Afghanistan. Lyon served as AP photo editor for Spain and Portugal  
from 1995 until 2003, when he accepted a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard  
University.  He was named Director of Photography in December 2003.

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