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Award Winning Photojournalist Kristen Ashburn: A photographic tour
Start Date: 2/27/2012Start Time: 7:00 PM
End Date: 2/27/2012End Time: 9:00 PM

Event Description
Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design present Rankin Scholar and award-winning photojournalist Kristen Ashburn. Her photographs tell poignant stories of people in desperate hardship, most notably her documentation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in southern Africa. This work has won numerous awards including NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism award, a World Press Photo prize as well as several prestigious grants.
In addition to her work in southern Africa, she has produced stories on the spread of tuberculosis in the Russian penal system, suicide bombers in Israel’s occupied territories and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
 
Join us for her lecture "Through the Photographic Eye, a Guided Tour from Global Health to Conflict." Ashburn will be signing copies of her book after the lecture. Event is free and open to the public. Visit www.drexelphotography.com for more information.
Contact Information:
Name: Elizabeth Timmmons
Phone: 215.895.5869
Email: photog@drexel.edu
Kristen Ashburn
Location:
Bossone Research Center 3140 Market Street
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  • Current Students
  • Faculty
  • Parents & Families
  • Prospective Students
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