Look Up!- the power of pictures on our world view

Vivien Morgan


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Media
Updated:
15th August 2023

We all have a powerful camera in our pockets now- on our mobile phones. The internet is awash with billions of images we upload. Where do they go? What use are they for our visual literacy and understanding of events and our lives? Do we need words to accompany pictures so we know what we are seeing? Includes a short history of images from still to moving pictures and their use in bringing us news of the world around us. Also how artists use new digital techniques to capture the moment in their paintings. David Hockney is one of the most famous to use video and cameras to great effect- merging the two creative disciplines. Finally a look at the future with AI and the storing of all our pictures. Where is it all heading?

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About Vivien Morgan

Vivien Morgan is a former BBC and Channel 4News TV News Journalist and Documentary Producer/Director, who picked up a camera to become a TV Videojournalist pioneer in 1989 as the Berlin Wall fell. Travelling undercover she reported from the closed Communist countries and other countries like Tibet and Myanmar. As a Senior University Lecturer, she wrote 2 academic books on videojournalism and mobile journalism. Her media career led to a range of roles globally working for the UN, African Union, Thomson Foundation and the EU. UK government roles as Director of Communications followed and 2 years for the Arab Reform Initiative (in Paris) as Head of Media. At present she is giving talks UK-wide and also in the US via Zoom on her latest book about historic cross-dressing women soldiers. She combines this with acting as a PR Consultant for small charities; a strategic media role for a medicinal CBD company and raising profile for a West Sussex community art gallery. She lives between London and West Sussex


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