World Summit 2010 Presenters: Fred Ritchin

Fred Ritchin is professor of Photography & Imaging at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of After Photography (W. W. Norton, 2009), a book on the potentials of imaging in a digital environment that is also being published in Chinese, French, Korean and Spanish. Ritchin's next book, Bending the Frame, on issues of media and social justice, will be published by the Aperture Foundation.

The director of PixelPress, which he co-founded with Carole Naggar, he has worked extensively in media and human rights on a variety of campaigns, such as one to end polio globally, another to further the Millennium Development Goals, and one to aid the Gisenyi orphanage in Rwanda. He has long been interested in using new media to create new forms of journalism and documentary, having worked, for example, in 1994-95 on a research project for The New York Times to transform one day's newspaper into a multimedia format.

Most recently, in a collaboration with the Magnum Foundation and Susan Meiselas, Ritchin created the Photography & Human Rights summer program at NYU. Ritchin is also former picture editor of The New York Times Magazine, executive editor of Camera Arts magazine, and founding director of the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography educational program at the International Center of Photography.

Fred's recent work and related links:

• PixelPress