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Kael Alford

Kael Alford discusses the unique immediacy of photography and its power to isolate a moment in time.

Kael Alford is a documentary photographer, writer, and journalist. She has worked extensively covering culture, politics and conflict in the balkans and the Middle East for many US and European magazines and newspapers. She covered the US invasion of Iraq and her work was included in the book and exhibition "Unembedded: Four Independent Journalists on the War in Iraq." She is represented by Panos Pictures in London.

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On Photography

Kael Alford tells us how the general public would benefit from approaching the world as a photographer— that photographers have to constantly break their own stereotypes and photography encourages the critical thinking required to participate in the world.

Perspective

Kael talks about the different perspectives women photographers have. The importance of alternative voices and stories.

Community 

Kael Alford talks about the Foundry Photojournalism Photojournalism Workshop and the general importance for photographers to take part in a community.