Photojournalism in an age of fake news

27 February 2023

4.30pm – 5.30pm AEDT

Io Myers Studio, Esme Timbery Creative Practice Lab

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Image of a fire unit dwarfed by a towering wall of orange flame in the Green Wattle Creek fire, in December 2019.

Award-winning Sydney Morning Herald photographers Kate Geraghty and Nick Moir, with managing photographic editor Mags King, will discuss their extraordinary body of work and the importance of bearing witness through photojournalism in an era of deep fakes and disinformation.

Geraghty and Moir have built their reputations by putting their lives on the line to visually capture the biggest stories in nature and geopolitics through an ecological and human lens. This discussion will be moderated by Newsworthy UNSW's Connie Levett with a Q&A to follow.

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Nick Moir

Chief Photographer, The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick Moir has, for more than two decades, specialised in capturing environmental and meteorological events such as storms, floods and bushfires. He was named Australian Press Photographer of the Year in 2002 for a series on Sydney's severe weather. His work in Australia and overseas includes coverage of the 2004 Asian Tsunami and the 2019 Black Summer fires. He has also photographed US tornado seasons. Between climate and weather crises, he also covers daily news for the SMH, where he has worked since 1993.

Kate Geraghty

Photographer, The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Geraghty has won multiple awards including the 2017 Gold Walkley for her coverage of Islamic State survivors in Mosul, northern Iraq. Since joining Fairfax Media in 2002, she has covered the Bali bombings; wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon; the 2004 tsunami; sexual warfare in Congo; and has returned multiple times to Ukraine (including covering the downing of the MH17) to document the conflict. She is a three-time Press Photographer of the Year winner.

Mags King

Managing Photographic Editor, The Sydney Morning Herald

Mags King has been a photographic manager and editor for more than 25 years, 17 of them with The Sydney Morning Herald. She contributed to the 2022 Walkley award-winning production “6000km journey” as part of the Herald's ‘Ukraine team.' She is a jury member for the World Press Photo competition and the curator of the SMH's acclaimed annual photographic exhibition ‘Photos1440’ (currently on show at UNSW School of the Arts and Media's Robert Webster building, Level 1).

Photojournalism in an age of fake news

Nick Moir

Kate Geraghty

Mags King

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