"Tribe Against Empire"


An Evening with Teru Kuwayama
Thursday, October 22, 6:30-8:00pm

Teru Kuwayama's photography has appeared in a variety of publications including TIME, Newsweek, National Geographic, Vibe, and Double Take. In 2004, Esquire magazine profiled him as among the "Best and Brightest" of his generation for his reportage on the occupation of Iraq. In 2005, Photo District News cited his work in Kashmir in a selection of the most iconic images in contemporary photography.

Kuwayama has received great honors from a number of very prestigious organizations, including Alicia Patterson Foundation and the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund for his reporting in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His work on the Tibetan refugee diaspora received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace, and has been exhibited at the Open Society Institute and the United Nations headquarters in New York.

In addition to his work as a photographer, he is the Founder and Director of November Eleven, a registered nonprofit organization which supports independent media, education, and humanitarian assistance projects around the world. He is also the Co-Founder of Lightstalkers, a web-based network of media workers including photographers and filmmakers, as well as members of the military and NGO communities.

Teru Kuwayama's IRIS Nights presentation will focus on his work in the ill-defined region known as "the central front" in the War on Terror. This region includes the failing states of Afghanistan and Pakistan and the conflicted border regions that Pakistan shares with Afghanistan and India. Kuwayama will showcase his photographs he took between 2002 and 2009 in Afghanistan, Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and Pakistan- and Indian-administered Kashmir.

To register for Teru Kuwayama's lecture, please click here. We recommend that you make your reservations soon, as our lectures tend to fill up quickly. In response to requests from our guests, we are releasing tickets at two separate times; today (Monday, October 12) at noon and tomorrow morning (Tuesday, October 13), at 9:30am.

If you are still unable to reserve seats through our ticketing system, don't be discouraged... 10 minutes prior to the lecture we release any seats that have not been claimed by ticketholders to standby guests.

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