Photojournalists Steve Liss and Jon Lowenstein will discuss “American Poverty: The Hidden Story” Oct. 15 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The free public talk is at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Liss and Lowenstein come to campus for the Frank Porter Graham Lecture, sponsored by the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence and Honors Carolina in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. Additional support is provided by the Office of the Executive Director of the Arts.
The two are among the founders of AmericanPoverty.org, an organization of photojournalists committed to poverty alleviation in the United States.
Liss has produced dozens of photographic essays and more than 40 cover photographs during his 25-year career at Time magazine. He is the author of the book, “No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention,” which received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism prize and the Pictures of the Year World Understanding Award. He has been a recipient of the Soros Justice Media Fellowship for his work on juvenile justice and the Alicia Patterson Fellowship for his work on domestic poverty.
For more than 10 years, Lowenstein has specialized in long-term, in-depth photography projects that confront power, poverty and violence. He is a 2012 artist-in-residence at the Joan S. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego. In 2011, he was named a John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellow and a TED Global Fellow. He won a World Press Award and a Getty Images grant for editorial photography in 2007.
