© Sinna NasseriFor two decades, Emily Keegin has been a Photo Editor deeply invested in photography and the importance of visual storytelling in our chaotic media landscape. Working for publications including TIME, Bloomberg Businessweek and The Fader, she has blurred the boundaries between genres and created space for photography to be interpretive and elaborate, a powerful voice unto itself. While Emily still dabbles in commissioning, she has spent the last few years working as a writer and cultural critic, examining the ways in which photography informs who we are and how we live.
In this conversation Emily and Gem Fletcher discuss the future of visual storytelling and the role of the photographer in preserving history, challenging misinformation, and safeguarding the integrity of our shared narratives.
Bios
Emily Keegin is a Photo Editor, Writer and Cultural Critic based in Northern California. She began her career as a Photo Editor at TIME magazine in 2005 and has spent the last 20 years working for both editorial and commercial clients, including IBM, Apple, Netflix, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, and the Fader where she was the director of photography. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's Bazaar Italia, and Good Sport Magazine..She holds a BA in liberal arts from Bennington College and an MA in Fine Art Photography from the Royal College of Art. She is most often found floating around the Internet, discussing the power of images and the future of photography
Gem Fletcher is a writer, consultant and podcaster whose work explores photography, art and contemporary culture and how they shape and inform who we are and how we live. Her work has been published in Foam, Aperture, Dazed, It’s Nice That. Creative Review, 1000 Words and The British Journal of Photography. She has written monograph texts for Rhiannon Adam, Juan Brenner, Maggie Shannon and Flora Hanitijo, amongst others. She also hosts The Messy Truth podcast, a series of candid conversations that unpack the future of visual culture and what it means to be a photographer today. Now in its tenth season, Gem explores reflections on criticism, starting out, mental health, politics and success with guests like Antwuan Sargent, Catherine Opie, Farah Al Qasimi, Carmen Winant, Charlotte Cotton, Quil Lemons, Brea Souders and Laia Abril.
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