Photo by Chris Meyer

Photojournalist Peter Turnley (left) shared a conversation with IU Bloomington associate professor Claude Cookman.

Join Claude Cookman, an IUB professor of journalism, in conversation with documentary photojournalist Peter Turnley, a Branigin Lecturer at IU's Institute for Advanced Study. Turnley is a contributing editor/photographer for Harpers, and his work also has appeared in Newsweek, Geo, LIFE, National Geographic, The London Sunday Times, Le Figaro, Le Monde, DoubleTake and other publications. A small selection of his work, Moments of the Human Condition, was exhibited at the IU Art Museum in April 2005. Turnley has covered most major news events in the past 20 years, including the 1991 Gulf War and conflicts in the Balkans, Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, Israel and Palestine, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Iraq. Cookman is a noted historian of photography, particularly the early work of the late French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Conversations online is produced by Byron K. Smith.

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Meaning of humanism

Humanism in France

Notion of humanistic photography in France

Sources of inspiration
Peter Turnley's approach to photography

Photographing the human condition
French vs. American films

Visual storytelling

Peter Turnley's ethical approach to the profession of photography