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Sebastian Meyer: On Documenting the Lives of Kurdish People in Iraq

Event Date:

February 27, 2020 | 7:00 PM EST TO 8:30 PM EST

ADDRESS:

Davidson College
325 Concord Road
Wall Academic Center Hamilton W. McKay Atrium

Davidson, NC 28035

Participants:
Image by Sebastian Meyer. Iraq, 2014.
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Today Iraq is consumed by sectarian fighting, but in the north the legacy of the US-led war is...

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Ezidiar, 9, plays with an oil slick running through the agricultural land below the refinery. Image by Sebastian Meyer. Iraq, 2015.
Ezidiar, 9, plays with an oil slick running through the agricultural land below the refinery. Image by Sebastian Meyer. Iraq, 2015.

Pulitzer Center grantee photojournalist Sebastian Meyer visits Davidson College with a focus on his reporting project, "From 'the Other Iraq' to Kurdistan," which focuses on the challenges Kurdish people face living in Iraq, and what stands in the way of the social and political movements that work to uplift them. 

His work has been published in TIME Magazine, The New York TimesThe Sunday Times MagazineThe Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, among other outlets.

Meyer's main talk is set for Thursday, February 27, 2020. He also expects to speak with Davidson classes and participate in more informal sessions with students and facullty during his time on campus. Ann Peters, Pulitzer Center university and community outreach director, joins Meyer at Davidson, a Campus Consortium partner.

In conjunction with the visit, Davidson plans to display Meyer's work in the Spencer Lobby of Chambers from February 6 through March 16, 2020.

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