Public lecture by award-winning photojournalist Janet Jarman

On Wednesday, Feb. 6, Jarman will give a talk in Carroll Hall room 111 at 6:30 p.m. The talk, titled "Long Range Documentary Coverage of Issues Relating to Social and Economic Justice," is free and open to the public.

Janet Jarman is a Mexico based photojournalist. She has worked extensively in Latin America and Asia and has previously lived in Japan, England and Chile.

Represented by Corbis, Jarman has worked on assignment for Geo, Smithsonian, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, TimeAsia, Newsweek, Discovery Online, amongst others. Her photographs have received awards in Pictures of the Year International , PDN Photography Annual, Communication Arts Photography Annual, and Best of Photojournalism. She has also received recognition for her work combining still photography and audio, creating multimedia projects for NYTimes.com, MSNBC.com.

In addition to assignment work, Jarman has focused in recent years on long-term projects that explore immigration issues, globalization, and the possibilities for sustainable development. In this context, she produced Crossings, an eight-year documentary that chronicles the plight of one Mexican immigrant family in their search for a better life in the United States and Coffee Crisis, an in-depth multi-media project that explores the� impacts of globalization on small scale farmers.

Jarman started her career in South Florida after graduating with a journalism degree from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. She worked as a staff photographer at The Miami Herald, received a Rotary International Scholarship in 1995 for studies in Santiago, Chile, and obtained a master’s degree in environmental issues at the University of London in 1997.

To learn more about Jarman’s work, please visit http://corbis.com/janetjarman

Recognition:

- Pictures of the Year International, 2005 – World Understanding Award – Special recognition – Crossings; Dream of the Rich North

- Photo District News Photography Annual 2005 – for “Marisol”

- Photograph of the Year 2004 – Geo Magazine – for “Marisol”

- Pictures of the Year International, 2003 – 2nd Place - Multimedia Essay, “Coffee Crisis” (featured on msnbc.com)

- Photo District News, December 2002 – “Janet Jarman’s Coffee Crisis”

- Best of Photojournalism, 2002 – Magazine Feature Story, “Coffee Crisis”; Magazine Feature Picture

- Communication Arts, 2001, “Roma Gypsy”.

- Pictures of the Year, 2000 – Portrait Awards for “Domestic Violence Survivors” and “Roma Gypsy”

- NPPA Women in Photojournalism Conference, 1998 – Best in Show for “Marisol”.

- Rotary International Ambassadorial Graduate Study Abroad Scholarship, 1995 recipient for studies in Santiago, Chile.

Exhibitions:

- Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Japan, 2003

- Tokyo Photo Nights, guest photographer – December, 2003

- Americanos: Latino Life in the United States, 1999-present – Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit

- Sharing Perspectives, 1998 – NPPA juried exhibit

- United Nations exhibit on Human Rights, 1998

- What we’ve discovered, 1993 – Traveling exhibit exploring the effects of the conquest throughout Latin America

- Haiti: Dangerous Crossroads, 1992 (North American Congress on Latin America)

- Alternative Visions – Women in Photojournalism, 1992