Beyond Violence: The Impact of Evolving Technologies in Wartime Photography
A panel at the International Center of Photography explores how new technologies are transforming wartime documentation and the ethics of conflict imagery.
Why we picked this
ICP has been the home of war photography since Robert Capa. This panel asks what happens to the genre when drones, AI, and smartphones replace the photographer in the field.
The International Center of Photography — founded by Cornell Capa in honor of his brother Robert, the pioneering war photographer — hosts a panel examining how emerging technologies are reshaping the documentation of conflict. From drone footage to smartphone citizen journalism to AI-generated imagery, the tools available for capturing war have multiplied faster than our ethical frameworks for evaluating them.
The panel addresses questions that go beyond technique: What is lost when the photographer is removed from the field? How do we verify images in an era of synthetic media? And what responsibilities do platforms bear when wartime imagery goes viral?
Free hybrid event at ICP. The kind of conversation that benefits from being in a room with people who have spent their careers thinking about images.