Panel Discussion: The Ethics of Photography During & After Conflicts
Benjamin Chesterton, Nelly Ating, Tudor Etchells, Andy Barnham
Join us on Thursday 16th February for a conversation on the ethics of photography during and after conflicts, coinciding with our current exhibition, We Are Here, Because You Were There: Afghan Interpreters in the UK.
We are thrilled to be joined by the following panellists;
Nelly Ating, a photojournalist whose work focuses on questions of identity, activism, education, extremism, and migration;
Tudor Etchells, a photographer, researcher and human rights lawyer for clients in the migration system;
Benjamin Chesterton, co-founder of the award-winning film production company duckrabbit;
Andy Barnham, a photographer and veteran who served as an officer in the Royal Artillery, deploying on operational tours multiple times to Iraq, Cyprus and Afghanistan where he documented his experiences.
Chaired by our director Siân Addicott, our panel of contemporary photographers and filmmakers will discuss their personal approaches to documenting people and places impacted by acts of war.
We look forward to an evening of engaging and perceptive discourse from our panellists and audience.
The exhibition We Are Here, Because You Were There: Afghan Interpreters in the UK continues until 25 March, open Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 5pm.
About Artists
Benjamin Chesterton
Benjamin directs and produces duckrabbit’s film work and leads our training. Before co-founding the company in 2008, Benjamin worked for the BBC producing documentaries.
Nelly Ating
Nelly Ating is a photojournalist who focuses on questions of identity, activism, education, extremism, and migration. Her photographic work documenting the rise of Boko Haram terrorism between 2014 and 2020 in Northeast Nigeria highlighted the link between radicalisation and the mediatisation of the aftermath of conflict. Ating has presented her photographic work in academic and non-academic settings in Africa, Europe, and America. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD at Cardiff University on the intersection of visual culture and human rights advocacy.
Tudor Etchells
Tudor Rhys Etchells (Wales, 1994) is a photographer, researcher and human rights lawyer for clients in the migration system. His work attempts to reveal systems that remain out of sight but that are imagined in the social conscience. For Etchells, the photographic medium, with its own cumbersome structures of viewing and representing, can be used to deconstruct processes and norms of wider social structures. His work as a human rights lawyer is a point of departure for his photographic research into systems of social control and the role of visual evidence within them.
Andy Barnham
Andy Barnham is a photographer, veteran and son of a refugee. Mixed race English/ Chinese and multilingual (English, Chinese, French and Farsi) Andy was born in Hong Kong and attended school and university in the UK before serving as an officer in the Royal Artillery, deploying on operational tours multiple times to Iraq, Cyprus and Afghanistan where he documented his experiences as a hobbyist photographer. After leaving the British Army Andy turned this passion into a career and landed on Savile Row becoming immersed in London’s sartorial scene. For over a decade he photographed the best of British heritage and craft for luxury editorial titles before focusing his observational and interpersonal skills on portraiture. We Are Here was a winner at the 2022 Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) photography awards in the portraiture category.
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