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Camille Seaman | TED Speaker

TED Senior Fellow Camille Seaman photographs big ice and big clouds.
Photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/camille_seaman

Miru Kim | TED Speaker

Miru Kim is a fearless explorer of abandoned and underground places. Her photography underscores the vulnerable nature of the human explorer in these no-woman's-lands.
Photographer and explorer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/miru_kim

Nick Veasey: Exposing the invisible

Nick Veasey shows outsized X-ray images that reveal the otherworldly inner workings of familiar objects -- from the geometry of a wildflower to the anatomy of a Boeing 747. Producing these photos is dangerous and painstaking, but the reward is a superpower: looking at what the human eye can't see.
https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_veasey_exposing_the_invisible

Barat Ali Batoor: My desperate journey with a human smuggler

Photojournalist Barat Ali Batoor was living in Afghanistan -- until his risky work forced him to leave the country. But for Batoor, a member of a displaced ethnic group called the Hazara, moving home to Pakistan proved dangerous too. And finding a safer place wasn't as simple as buying a plane ticket. Instead, he was forced to pay a human smuggl...
https://www.ted.com/talks/barat_ali_batoor_my_desperate_journey_with_a_human_smuggler

Rick Smolan | TED Speaker

Rick Smolan is the co-founder of the America 24/7 and Day in the Life photography series -- and a natural storyteller in many media. His latest books are America at Home and Blue Planet Run.
Photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rick_smolan

Alec Soth | TED Speaker

Alec Soth makes large-scale projects that are as much about dreams and heartache as they are about charting the landscape of Middle America.
Photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/alec_soth

Edward Burtynsky | TED Speaker

2005 TED Prize winner Edward Burtynsky has made it his life's work to document humanity's impact on the planet. His riveting photographs, as beautiful as they are horrifying, capture views of the Earth altered by mankind.
Photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/edward_burtynsky

Frans Lanting: Photos that give voice to the animal kingdom

Nature photographer Frans Lanting uses vibrant images to take us deep into the animal world. In this short, visual talk he calls for us to reconnect with other earthly creatures, and to shed the metaphorical skins that separate us from each other.
https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_lanting_photos_that_give_voice_to_the_animal_kingdom

Lisa Kristine: Photos that bear witness to modern slavery

Photographer Lisa Kristine travels the world documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery. She shares hauntingly beautiful images -- miners in the Congo, bricklayers in Nepal -- that illuminate the plight of the 27 million souls enslaved worldwide.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_kristine_photos_that_bear_witness_to_modern_slavery

Alexa Meade: Your body is my canvas

Alexa Meade takes an innovative approach to art. Not for her a life of sketching and stretching canvases. Instead, she selects a topic and then paints it--literally. She covers everything in a scene--people, chairs, food, you name it--in a mask of paint that mimics what's below it. In this eye-opening talk Meade shows off photographs of some of ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/alexa_meade_your_body_is_my_canvas

Playlist: The artist is in. (14 talks)

Why create? Artists and designers share their work, their process and their vision in these deeply personal -- and often hilarious -- talks.
Curated by TED · 14 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/the_artist_is_in

Aaron Huey | TED Speaker

Photographer, adventurer and storyteller Aaron Huey captures all of his subjects -- from war victims to rock climbers to Sufi dervishes -- with elegance and fearless sensitivity.
Photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/aaron_huey

Nick Veasey | TED Speaker

Logging countless hours behind an X-ray machine, Nick Veasey illuminates the labyrinthine secrets hidden beneath the exteriors of everyday objects.
X-ray visionary
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nick_veasey

Paul Nicklen | TED Speaker

Paul Nicklen photographs the creatures of the Arctic and Antarctic, generating global awareness about wildlife in these isolated and endangered environments.
Polar photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/paul_nicklen

Louie Schwartzberg: The restorative potential of nature's beauty

The natural world is one of immense, awe-inspiring and even therapeutic beauty that many of us rarely connect with. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg uses bleeding edge nature photography to make a case for the restorative qualities of nature immersion and for technology's potential as our bridge to such experiences.
https://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_the_restorative_potential_of_nature_s_beauty

Barat Ali Batoor | TED Speaker

Barat Ali Batoor, an award-winning photojournalist, is a member of the Hazara people. He is based in Australia.
Photojournalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/barat_ali_batoor

Julie Burstein | TED Speaker

As a producer, Julie Burstein builds places to talk (brilliantly) about creative work. Her book "Spark: How Creativity Works" shares what she has learned.
Writer and radio producer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/julie_burstein

Monika Bulaj | TED Speaker

Monika Bulaj’s stunning, painting-like photographs blur religious and cultural divisions, exploding stereotypes. She is a TED Fellow.
Photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/monika_bulaj

Stephen Wilkes | TED Speaker

By blending up to 100 still photographs into a seamless composite that captures the transition from day to night, Stephen Wilkes reveals the stories hidden in familiar locations.
Photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/stephen_wilkes

Aaron Duffy, Lake Buckley and Jack Foster: "Illusions for a better society"

Could visual illusions be a cure for polarization? (Credits: Director of Photography: William Atherton; Production Design: Adam Pruitt; Creative Partner: SpecialGuest; Production company: 1stAveMachine; Producers: Dave Kornfield, Andrew Geller, Matt Snetzko; Music: Bryn Bliska; Executive Producer, TED2018 Film Program: Sinéad McDevitt; Director ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_duffy_lake_buckley_and_jack_foster_illusions_for_a_better_society

Alejandro Durán | TED Speaker

Alejandro Durán collects the international trash washing up on the Caribbean coast of Mexico, transforming it into aesthetic yet disquieting artworks that wake us up to the threat of plastic pollution.
Multimedia artist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/alejandro_duran

Mother London: "AI therapy"

After 100 years of progress, AI bots have finally become too human for their own good. (Credits: Directors: Emerald Fennell & Chris Vernon; Director of Photography: Ben Kracun; Production Design: Jessica Sutton; VFX: Coffee & TV; Executive Producer, TED2018 Film Program: Sinéad McDevitt; Director of Production and Video Operations, TED: ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/mother_london_ai_therapy

Giles Duley | TED Speaker

Giles Duley began his career as a fashion photographer. When it was time for a change he found himself on a journey of war and hardship.
Photojournalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/giles_duley

Phil Borges | TED Speaker

Dentist-turned-photographer Phil Borges documents the world's disappearing cultures, capturing portraits of exiled Tibetan monks and many of the world’s embattled tribal and indigenous cultures.
Photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/phil_borges

Shirin Neshat | TED Speaker

Shirin Neshat has lived much of her life outside her native Iran. Her photographs and films offer a glimpse of the cultural, religious and political realities that shape the identities of Muslim women worldwide.
Iranian visual artist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/shirin_neshat

Alejandro Chaskielberg: Cómo usar el arte de la fotografía para restaurar la memoria

¿Qué le puede suceder a la memoria cuando la evidencia del pasado se pierde o se borra? ¿Cómo podemos reconstruir la historia a través de imágenes, ó de la fotografía? El fotógrafo Alejandro Chaskielberg da una poderosa charla en la que habla sobre su trabajo en la comunidad de Otsuchi, Japón, donde él y sus colaboradores auxiliarion al pueblo a...
https://www.ted.com/talks/alejandro_chaskielberg_como_usar_el_arte_de_la_fotografia_para_restaurar_la_memoria

Julie Chang: Why we need to design cameras for robots

In this eye-opening talk, computational imaging researcher Julie Chang discusses how we can customize AI-driven photo applications to improve their ability to perform tasks such as facial recognition.
https://www.ted.com/talks/julie_chang_why_we_need_to_design_cameras_for_robots

Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time

A long time ago in New York City, Steve Addis stood on a corner holding his 1-year-old daughter in his arms; his wife snapped a photo. The image has inspired an annual father-daughter ritual, where Addis and his daughter pose for the same picture, on the same corner, each year. Addis shares 15 treasured photographs from the series, and explores ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_addis_a_father_daughter_bond_one_photo_at_a_time

Kelli Jean Drinkwater | TED Speaker

Kelli Jean Drinkwater is a multi-disciplinary artist and activist recognized for her creative practice and voice in radical body politics.
Artist, activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kelli_jean_drinkwater

Frans Lanting: The story of life in photographs

In this stunning slideshow, celebrated nature photographer Frans Lanting presents The LIFE Project, a poetic collection of photographs that tell the story of our planet, from its eruptive beginnings to its present diversity. Soundtrack by Philip Glass.
https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_lanting_the_story_of_life_in_photographs
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