Photography As Advocacy? Day Labor, Family, and the New Global Economy

Threats to immigrants' rights give urgency to documenting and understanding the tensions in the personal lives of day laborers and their complex place in the temporary employment sector of the new global economy.

OSI's Documentary Photography Project sponsored the discussion "Day Labor, Family, and the New Global Economy," as part of the ongoing Photography As Advocacy? series that explores how photography can be used to shape public policy and perception and to effect social change.

Moderated by the curator of OSI's Moving Walls exhibit, photographer Susan Meiselas, the panel included:

• Jon Lowenstein, photographer;
• Chris Newman, National Day Laborer Organizing Network coordinator.

Lowenstein s work, which is part of Moving Walls 7, is on display at the Columbia University School of Social Work.

Location

Columbia University School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Avenue (between 121st and 122nd Streets)
Concourse Level
New York, NY