Magnum Symposium: The Medium is the Message

On Trust and Authenticity
Magnum photographers Jonas Bendiksen, Carolyn Drake and Alessandra Sanguinetti will be in conversation with writer and educator, Max Houghton.

Keynote speaker
Job Rabkin, Commissioning Editor, Investigations, Channel 4 News joins us. Rabkin’s team were recently awarded one of the world's most prestigious journalism awards, a Peabody Award for News, for their undercover investigation into Cambridge Analytica, of which he will speak about.

Humanism
Alona Pardo, Photography Curator here at the Barbican sits in conversation with Magnum photographers Olivia Arthur and Peter van Agtmael.

The Camera as Tool
Consider technology and the camera. Magnum photographers Antoine d’Agata and Sohrab Hura discuss the growing use of imaging technology within society and the photographic culture that is defined by a changing media environment and networked culture. d'Agata and Hura will discuss their artistic approaches to making work in and about this environment.

Keynote speaker
Dr. Mark Sealy, MBE, curator, cultural historian and director of Autograph, will focus on photography's relationship to human rights, identity politics and social change.

On Authorship & Creativity
Cristina de Middel, Alex Majoli and Mikhael Subotzky will discuss the role of authorship and documentary in contemporary documentary practice with Dr Yasufumi Nakamori, Senior Curator of International Art (Photography) at Tate Modern.