Time magazine photographer Steve Liss will speak and show his work Tuesday (Sept. 25) at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The free public lecture, at 7:30 p.m. in 111 Carroll Hall, will be this month’s “PhotoNight” program, presented by the UNC student chapter of the National Press Photographers Association, based in the school.
Since 1976, 43 of Liss’ photographs have appeared on the cover of Time. He has won several awards from the National Press Photographer’s Association, Pictures of the Year International and the World Press. He began his career at age 17 for his hometown weekly newspaper, The Quincy (Mass.) Sun.
Liss won the 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for covering issues affecting the disadvantaged. In 2004, he received the Soros Justice Media Fellowship for his book “No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention.” In 2005, he received a fellowship from the Alicia Patterson Foundation of Washington, D.C., to continue his documentation of poverty in America.
Liss teaches photojournalism in the graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
School of Journalism and Mass Communication contact: Kyle York, (919) 966-3323 or sky@unc.edu