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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my industry,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.00,0:00:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we believe that images can change the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.00,0:00:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, we're naive, we're bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.00,0:00:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is that we know that the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.00,0:00:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,images themselves don't change the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.00,0:00:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we're also aware that, since the beginning of photography,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.00,0:00:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,images have provoked reactions in people,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.00,0:00:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those reactions have caused change to happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.00,0:00:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's begin with a group of images.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.00,0:00:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd be extremely surprised
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.00,0:00:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you didn't recognize many or most of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.00,0:00:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're best described as iconic:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.00,0:00:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so iconic, perhaps, they're cliches.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.00,0:00:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, they're so well-known
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.00,0:00:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you might even recognize them
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.00,0:00:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a slightly or somewhat different form.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.00,0:00:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.00,0:00:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think we're looking for something more.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.00,0:00:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're looking for something more.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're looking for images that shine
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.00,0:00:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an uncompromising light on crucial issues,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.00,0:00:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,images that transcend borders, that transcend religions,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.00,0:00:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,images that provoke us
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.00,0:01:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to step up and do something --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.00,0:01:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in other words, to act.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.00,0:01:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, this image you've all seen.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.00,0:01:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It changed our view of the physical world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.00,0:01:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had never seen our planet from this perspective before.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.00,0:01:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people credit
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.00,0:01:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of the birth of the environmental movement
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.00,0:01:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our seeing the planet like this
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.00,0:01:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the first time --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.00,0:01:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its smallness, its fragility.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.00,0:01:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forty years later, this group, more than most,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.00,0:01:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are well aware of the destructive power
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.00,0:01:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our species can wield over our environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.00,0:01:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at last, we appear to be doing something about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.00,0:01:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This destructive power takes many different forms.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.00,0:01:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, these images taken by Brent Stirton
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.00,0:01:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Congo.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.00,0:01:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These gorillas were murdered, some would even say crucified,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.00,0:01:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and unsurprisingly,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.00,0:01:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they sparked international outrage.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.00,0:01:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most recently,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.00,0:01:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've been tragically reminded of the destructive power of nature itself
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.00,0:01:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the recent earthquake in Haiti.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.00,0:02:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I think what is far worse
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.00,0:02:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is man's destructive power over man.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.00,0:02:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Samuel Pisar, an Auschwitz survivor, said,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.00,0:02:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'll quote him,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.00,0:02:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Holocaust teaches us that nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.00,0:02:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even in its cruelest moments,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.00,0:02:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is benign in comparison with man,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.00,0:02:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when he loses his moral compass and his reason."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.00,0:02:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's another kind of crucifixion.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.00,0:02:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The horrifying images from Abu Ghraib
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.00,0:02:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as the images from Guantanamo
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.00,0:02:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a profound impact.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.00,0:02:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The publication of those images,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.00,0:02:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as opposed to the images themselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.00,0:02:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caused a government to change its policies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.00,0:02:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some would argue that it is those images
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.00,0:02:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that did more to fuel the insurgency in Iraq
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.00,0:02:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than virtually any other single act.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.00,0:02:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Furthermore, those images forever removed
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.00,0:02:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the so-called moral high ground of the occupying forces.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.00,0:02:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's go back a little.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.00,0:02:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 1960s and 1970s,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.00,0:02:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Vietnam War was basically shown
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.00,0:02:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in America's living rooms day in, day out.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.00,0:02:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,News photos brought people face to face
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.00,0:03:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the victims of the war: a little girl burned by napalm,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.00,0:03:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a student killed by the National Guard
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.00,0:03:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at Kent State University in Ohio during a protest.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.00,0:03:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, these images became
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.00,0:03:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the voices of protest themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.00,0:03:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, images have power
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.00,0:03:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to shed light of understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.00,0:03:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on suspicion, ignorance,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.00,0:03:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in particular -- I've given a lot of talks on this
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.00,0:03:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'll just show one image --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.00,0:03:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the issue of HIV/AIDS.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.00,0:03:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 1980s, the stigmatization of people with the disease
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.00,0:03:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was an enormous barrier
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.00,0:03:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to even discussing or addressing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.00,0:03:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A simple act, in 1987, of the most famous woman in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.00,0:03:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Princess of Wales, touching
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.00,0:03:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an HIV/AIDS infected baby
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.00,0:03:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did a great deal, especially in Europe, to stop that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.00,0:03:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She, better than most, knew the power of an image.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.00,0:03:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when we are confronted by a powerful image,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.00,0:03:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we all have a choice:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.00,0:03:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can look away, or we can address the image.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.00,0:03:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thankfully, when these photos appeared in
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.00,0:03:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Guardian in 1998,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.00,0:04:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they put a lot of focus and attention and, in the end, a lot of money
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.00,0:04:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards the Sudan famine relief efforts.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.00,0:04:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did the images change the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.00,0:04:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, but they had a major impact.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.00,0:04:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Images often push us to question our core beliefs
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.00,0:04:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our responsibilities to each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.00,0:04:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all saw those images after Katrina,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.00,0:04:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think for millions of people
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.00,0:04:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they had a very strong impact.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.00,0:04:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think it's very unlikely
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.00,0:04:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they were far from the minds of Americans
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.00,0:04:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they went to vote in November 2008.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.00,0:04:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately, some very important images
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.00,0:04:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are deemed too graphic or disturbing for us to see them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.00,0:04:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll show you one photo here,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.00,0:04:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's a photo by Eugene Richards of an Iraq War veteran
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.00,0:04:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from an extraordinary piece of work,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.00,0:04:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has never been published, called War Is Personal.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.00,0:04:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But images don't need to be graphic
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.00,0:04:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to remind us of the tragedy of war.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.00,0:04:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Moore set up this photo at Arlington Cemetery.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.00,0:04:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After all the tense moments of conflict
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.00,0:04:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all the conflict zones of the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.00,0:04:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's one photograph from a much quieter place
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.00,0:05:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that haunts me still, much more than the others.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.00,0:05:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ansel Adams said, and I'm going to disagree with him,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.00,0:05:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.00,0:05:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my view, it's not the photographer who makes the photo,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.00,0:05:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.00,0:05:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We bring to each image
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.00,0:05:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our own values, our own belief systems,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.00,0:05:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as a result of that, the image resonates with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.00,0:05:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My company has 70 million images.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.00,0:05:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have one image in my office.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.00,0:05:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.00,0:05:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope that the next time you see
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.00,0:05:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an image that sparks something in you,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.00,0:05:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'll better understand why,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.00,0:05:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I know that speaking to this audience,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.00,0:05:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'll definitely do something about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.00,0:05:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And thank you to all the photographers.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.00,0:05:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)