Media literacy and active audience participation, Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2011

Ron Haviv – Biography

PhotoWings Interview with photojournalist Ron Haviv - Foundry Workshop 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ron Haviv explains the process of becoming media literate and bearing the responsibility to be part of an active and critical media audience.

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Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced some of the most important images of conflict and other humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War. Haviv is a co-founder of the photo agency VII which is dedicated to documenting conflict, both violent and non-violent, to produce and unflinching record of the injustices created and experienced by people caught up in the events they describe.