Executive Director Laura Wzorek Pressley in conversation with CENTER Alum, and photographer Eric Cousineau on his commissioned series “Essential Worker” in response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. In this podcast, we hear more about the ongoing project created to honor the essential workers risking their health to keep our country’s infrastructure intact.
Executive Director Laura Wzorek Pressley in conversation with Nicole Werbeck, Senior Supervising Editor for Visuals and Engagement, NPR, discussing service journalism, the empathetic response and Nicole’s experience of “this past year with the pandemic, photographers are the only people that often have been out; and they are the ones finding the stories”.
Executive Director Laura Wzorek Pressley in conversation with Ann Thomas, Senior Curator of Photographs at the National Gallery of Canada discussing themes from the essay “From Conversations in Time to New Narratives: Building Photograph Collections for the Future.”
Executive Director Laura Wzorek Pressley in conversation with Rubén Esparza, Independent Curator, Artists, Founder + Director, Queer Biennial discussing the genesis of the Queer Biennial, experimentation and his impressions of the submissions and winners of the 2020 CENTER Director’s Choice Awards