Pulitzer Prize winner Ulrike Welsch will join a panel of celebrated Marblehead photojournalists for a discussion on “Capturing the Moment: The Art of Photojournalism.”
This special fundraising event will be held Thursday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m. at the Marblehead Arts Association, 8 Hooper St. Proceeds will benefit the Marblehead Current.
Ulrike Welsch will join professional photojournalists Tanya Braganti, Jared Charney and high school senior Grey Collins, who writes and shoots photos for the Current. Panelists will share stories from decades of shooting photographs for newspapers, magazines and more. They will also talk about the changing media landscape.
Learn more about the panel members here:
Tanya Braganti has more than 20 years of experience in Boston and New York, and her photos have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News. She also has nonprofit and commercial clients, including universities, architecture firms and the New York City mayor’s office.
Jared Charney’s photographs have appeared in The Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Barron’s Magazine, Dutch Financial Times, MIT News, North Shore Magazine and New Hampshire Magazine. His clients include Harvard and Tufts universities.
Ulrike Welsch won a Pulitzer Prize for the Boston Globe’s team coverage of Boston’s busing crisis. She was also named Press Photographer of the Year by the New England Press Photographers Association. After her work in Boston news, she worked as a freelancer around the world and has published many photography books.
Grey Collins is a senior at Marblehead High School who has interned and worked for the Current for the last two years. He has won several awards for his photography and been featured on WBZ-TV.
After the discussion, Gene Arnould, of Arnould Gallery, will lead a brief auction of items, including framed, signed photographs contributed by each panelist, rare copies of Welsch’s now-out-of-print “Marblehead” and “Boston Rediscovered” books, a premium Marblehead Arts Association membership, two tickets to Marblehead Little Theatre’s January production of “A Little Night Music” and more.
Tickets are $50 per person and include refreshments. For more information and to buy tickets, visit MarbleheadCurrent.org.
