Corridor Culture presents: Civil Awakening; Ariella Azoulay in conversation with Dorit Naaman

Using recent documentary photography as a sounding board Israeli scholar, curator and filmmaker, Ariella Azoulay discusses new civil languages emerging from the Social Justice Movement in Israel, uprisings in Egypt and Occupy Wall Street.

Ariella Azoulay is Director of the Photo-Lexic International Research Group at the Minerva Center at Tel Aviv University and Leverhulme Research Professor, Durham University. She is the author of eight books and curator of numerous exhibitions concerning the power of the image in the definition of citizenship. Best known for The Civil Contract of Photography (MIT/Zone Books), Dr. Azoulay’s work has focussed on the power relations that sustain and make possible photographic meanings.

Dorit Naaman is a filmmaker and film theorist and Alliance Atlantis Professor of Film and Media at Queen’s University.