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A Poem is Worth a Thousand Pictures (Youth) Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive)

A Poem is worth a Thousand Pictures

The archival image, pandemic, endless questions, photography and poetry.
Join photojournalist Brendan Bannon for a timed workshop on seeing and words.
During the workshop you’ll use your photo archive to mark
and interrogate the one year anniversary of the pandemic.

Where: Online Workshop
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Time: 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
TO REGISTER:
Email the Writing Center at jbwc@justbuffalo.org.
This workshop is FREE, aimed at young students aged 12–18, and limited to 10 participants.

ACCESSIBILITY NOTE:
Writers are welcome to participate with or without video and audio during any of our virtual sessions. If you have any questions/issues accessing any of these opportunities, please let us know and we will work with you to make sure you can participate.

Brendan Bannon

About the Teaching Artist

BRENDAN BANNON is a photographer and educator who has worked for the New York Times, HBO, Doctors Without Borders and The United Nations High Commission for Refugees. His work on refugee life was exhibited at the MoMA and at the Triennial di Milano. As the founder of mostimportantpicture.org, Bannon has collaborated with marginalized communities worldwide, teaching photography to HIV positive children in Romania and Uganda, refugees in Africa and the Middle East, and combat veterans in the United States.