Topic: A Conversation with Greg Marinovich

Speaker: Greg Marinovich

Greg Marinovich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and filmmaker. Marinovich is co-author of The Bang Bang Club, a nonfiction book on South Africa’s transition to democracy that has been translated into six languages and made into a feature film. He spent 25 years covering conflict around the globe, with his writing and photographs appearing in magazines and newspapers worldwide.

His 2012 award-winning investigations into the Marikana massacre of miners by police was called the most important South African journalism post-Apartheid. Marinovich was Editor-In-Chief of the Twenty Ten project, tutoring and managing over 100 African journalists’ work in all forms of media. He gives lectures and workshops on human rights, justice photography and storytelling. He currently teaches at Boston University’s Journalism school and the Harvard Extension School.

https://gregmarinovich.photoshelter.com

Location: Common Room, First Parish Church Bedford, Elm Street Entrance