Image Truth/Story Truth, October 16, 2015

Below, a few frames from the recent Columbia Journalism School conference on the state of photojournalism in the digital age, as a genre, a vocation, and as an industry, organized by Nina Berman and Gary Knight.

In the interest of "image truth," one of our central concerns, I disclose herewith that I processed these digitally captured Canon images in Camera Raw and Photoshop. Some or all of the following adjustments were made to the images in Camera Raw: increased or decreased exposure; sharpened; corrected color temperature; raised midtones (using curves); set black and white points; added vibrance and clarity; burned or dodged.

Written reflections on the event to follow.

"The Press and Photography" panel, with Aidan Sullivan (Getty Images), Kenny Irby (Poynter Institute), Michele McNally (NY Times), Santiago Lyon (Associated Press), and moderator Claire Wardle, Columbia Journalism School, NY, NY, October 16, 2015

Audience members, Lacy Austin (ICP) among them, listen to panel during Image Truth/Story Truth conference, Columbia Journalism School, NY, NY, October 16, 2015

"The Press and Photography" panel, with Aidan Sullivan (Getty Images), Kenny Irby (Poynter Institute), Michele McNally (NY Times), Santiago Lyon (Associated Press), Columbia Journalism School, NY, NY, October 16, 2015

Stephen Mayes (Tim Hetherington Trust) asks question during panel Q&A, Columbia Journalism School, NY, NY, October 16, 2015

Audience at Image Truth/Story Truth Conference, Columbia Journalism School, NY, NY, October 16, 2015

Kenny Irby (Poynter Institute) listens during panel at Image Truth/Story Truth conference, Columbia Journalism School, NY, NY, October 16, 2015

"Politics of the Image and the Constructed Event" panel at Image Truth/Story Truth conference, with moderator Marvin Heiferman (curator; editor), Michael Shaw (Reading the Pictures.org), Susie Linfield (author; NYU), Kiku Adatto (author; Mahindra Humanities Center), Columbia Journalism School, NY, NY, October 16, 2015

Anne Wilkes Tucker (founding photographic curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), moderator of "What is a Photographer? The Future of Photography and the Professional Image-Maker" panel, Columbia Journalism School, NY, NY, October 16, 2015