To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland which took the life of Alexia Tsairis and 269 others, the Alexia Foundation will host the conversation: “Act of Terror Spawns 30 Years of Stories That Drive Change” at the Newseum in Washington DC. Join me and Aphrodite Tsairis on December 22, 2018 from 2:30-3:30.
The Festival della Fotografia Etica will exhibit Mary’s work: “The Battle Within: Sexual Assault in America’s Military,” in the In Depth-Analysis Area of the festival October 6-28 in Lodi, Italy.
Mary gives the keynote talk “Surviving Long-Term Projects” at Syracuse University’s Fall Workshop 2018.
My talk is being sponsored by Nikon.
Mary F. Calvert is committed to using photography to affect meaningful social change and is known for producing work on gender based, human rights issues. For her work on sexual assault in the US Military, she is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2016 Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography and 1st Prize, Long Term Projects in the 2016 World Press Photo Contest, as well as the 2014 Alexia Foundation Women’s Initiative Grant, and the 2013 Canon Female Photojournalist Award. She has won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award twice and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Photography.