Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice. A program dedicated to teaching students to shape global issues into multimedia stories that are narrative and compelling...
Economic inequality – the gap between the rich and everyone else – is growing worldwide. Many argue that this gap also gives rise to inequity – a powerful disparity in fairness, equal opportunity and social justice. In the fall of 2013, the Program for Narrative and Docu- mentary Practice introductory class was given a six-week assignment to tell a story about this issue locally. This exhibition is the result of their work. The mass media inundates us with economic information on unemployment rates, fiscal policies, and political impasse.
On March 5, the Institute will host a panel discussion on “Ten Years after the Toppling: The Fall of Iraq, the Media, and US Intervention.” The discussion will feature:
• Peter Maass, award-winning author and journalist, who wrote about the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square and the US military’s entrance into Baghdad in 2003 for The New Yorker
• Gary Knight, award-winning photojournalist and co-founder of VII, who covered the war in Iraq as a non-embedded journalist and who photographed the toppling of the statue on April 9, 2003
In May 2012, the students from the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice traveled to Burma to explore daily life in the country’s biggest city, Yangon, as the culminating workshop of the yearlong course.