The Power of the Image: Telling the Story of Conflict Through Photography

James Brabazon is an author, frontline-journalist and documentary filmmaker. Based in the UK, he has travelled to over 70 countries – investigating, filming and directing in the world's most hostile environments. He is the author of the international bestseller My Friend the Mercenary, a memoir recounting his experiences of the Liberian civil war and the Equatorial Guinea coup plot; and the Max McLean series of spy thrillers The Break Line and Arkhangel (UK) / All Fall Down (USA).

Sebastian Junger is a bestselling author, award-winning journalist, contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News. He has covered major international news stories around the world, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film "Restrepo", a feature-length documentary (co-directed with Tim Hetherington), was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.   

Christina Lamb is Chief Foreign Correspondent at The Sunday Times and one of Britain’s leading foreign journalists as well as a bestselling author. She has reported from most of the world’s hot-spots from Angola to Ukraine and starting with Afghanistan after an unexpected wedding invitation led her to Karachi in 1987 when she was just 21. She is the recipient of numerous awards including Young Journalist of the Year; Foreign Correspondent of the Year; the Prix Bayeux and the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Editors.

Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News' International Editor and the author of In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, which won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize for biography. Her new book I Brought The War with Me; Stories and Poems from the Front Line will be published in September. Recently she has reported on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan. She has covered the major conflicts and refugee movements of the past three decades, including Syria, Iraq, Kosovo and Rwanda, winning several awards. She is a regular contributor to newspapers and literary journals.