Documentary filmmaker Tess Gallun, while pursuing her MA in The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at UWM, is doing some amazing work that draws on her own experiences, as well as the timely subject of Representation of War.
What I like about Tess' work is that it is very active, having an activist quality to it, but the call to action does not seem partisan. This call is to examine closely the experiences, feelings and actions of female photographers shooting (their cameras) in the midst of killing. How do these photojournalists justify their subject/object relationships in very raw situations where death, brutality, compassion, and ambition spill out and pool together in dramatic scenes?
Tune in to find out, Gallun is presenting a paper called Death's Conflicted Responsibility: Female Photojournalists and Front-line Ethics, to the International Communication Association Conference in New York, at the end of the month.
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