'Contested Lands' Photo Exhibit in California at World Affairs

Photography from "A Journey Through Contested Lands," a collaboration between Magnum Photos, Pacific Standard and the Pulitzer Center, is on display at the World Affairs Auditorium in San Francisco. This exhibit, co-organized by World Affairs and the Pulitzer Center, features work by Jonas Bendisken, Chien-Chi Chang, Thomas Dworzak, Stuart Franklin, Susan Meiselas, and Emin Özmen, six Magnum photographers supported by the Pulitzer Center. 

Born in Norway, Bendiksen began his career at the age of 19 when he moved to Russia to become a photographer. Bendiksen is the author of Satellites (2006), The Places We Live (2008), and The Last Testament (2017). He joined Magnum in 2004. Chang makes manifest the abstract concepts of alienation and connection through his work. For 26 years, Chang has documented the bifurcated lives of Chinese immigrants in New York's Chinatown, along with those of their wives and families back home in Fujian. 

Dworzak has produced a number of books, including Taliban (2003) and M*A*S*H* Iraq (2007). He has been a member of Magnum Photos since 2004, and was elected president of Magnum in 2017.  Franklin became a full member of Magnum in 1989. He worked on 20 stories for National Geographic between 1991 and 2009, and is the author of Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux  (2008) and The Documentary Impulse (2016). 

Meiselas is a documentary photographer and the author of Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), Pandora's Box (2001), and Encounters with the Dani (2003). She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015. Özmen, a photographer who lives in Istanbul, covers international news and develops documentary photography projects focusing on human rights violations. His work has been published by TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Paris Match, and others.

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The exhibit is open for complimentary viewing Monday - Friday from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM and during World Affairs programs. There is a related evening dialogue and reception on Thursday, February 21, 2019, that requires registration.