Online soon: Guided tour and Talk: Doris Gassert in conversation with with Clément Saccomani

The conversation with Clément Saccomani scheduled for March 25 will be made available online as a multi-part talk. Shedding light on the roles of photographers, photo and press agencies, Saccomani will focus on issues of ethics, gender, image circulation as well as some of the most significant changes and challenges in the professional field of war photography. Stay tuned!
In a guided tour through the exhibition, NOOR’s managing director Clément Saccomani sheds light on the everyday reality of photographers in conflict and war zones. He shares insights into the specific roles of the female war photographers, on issues of gender as well as on the relationship between photographers, photo and press agencies. With almost 20 years of international experience in the photography industry, Saccomani touches upon some of the most significant changes and challenges in the professional field of war photography.
Clément Saccomani is managing director of the Dutch photo agency NOOR. Previously, he was a press photographer documenting international conflicts and violence against the civilian population before working as Editorial Director for Magnum Photos.
The guided tour will take place in English and in conversation with Doris Gassert, Research Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur.
Admission: CHF 5 (plus admission to the exhibition)
For members: free admission
The exhibition Women War Photographers – From Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus is devoted to photojournalistic coverage of international wars and conflicts. On display are some 140 images shot between 1936 and 2011 by a number of women photojournalists and documentary photographers: Carolyn Cole (*1961), Françoise Demulder (1947–2008), Catherine Leroy (1944–2006), Susan Meiselas (*1948), Lee Miller (1907–1977), Anja Niedringhaus (1965–2014), Christine Spengler (*1945) and Gerda Taro (1910–1937). Their pictures provide a fragmentary insight into the complex reality of war, taking in a range of military theatres from the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Vietnam War to more recent international conflicts in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
Image: Carolyn Cole, Iraqi police offers line up in combat gear to take part in one of several war-preparation exercises, Baghdad, Iraq, 2003. © Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times