When was the conference for which Robert Leslie was chief photographer founded?
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Robert Leslie (photographer) Robert Leslie is a photographer from London. He was the chief photographer for TED and the World Science Festival. One of his major works involved two road trips, one in 2009 and the other in 2011, across the Sun belt, documenting what he saw and the changes that occurred between the two journeys.
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TED (conference) TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a media organization which posts talks online for free distribution, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". TED was founded in February 1984 as a conference, which has been held annually since 1990. TED's early emphasis was technology and design, consistent with its Silicon Valley origins, but it has since broadened its focus to include talks on many scientific, cultural, and academic topics.
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Event photography Event photography is the practice of photographing guests and occurrences at any Event or occasion where one may hire a photographer for. This is a coverage that is used around the world at occasions such as weddings, christenings, naming ceremonies, parties, birthdays, formals, dances, ceremonies, award ceremonies, funerals, meals and engagements.
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World Photography Organisation The World Photography Organisation (WPO) is an international organisation which manages various initiatives for amateur and professional photographers. Incorporated as World Photography Awards Limited, the organisation hosts the annual Sony World Photography Awards and the subsequent World Photography Festival, exhibiting the work of winning photographers in each category. Sponsored by Sony, the awards took place in Cannes since 2008 and moved to London in 2011.
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World Press Photo World Press Photo Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955, the organization is known for holding an annual press photography contest. Since 2011, World Press Photo has organized a separate annual contest for journalistic multimedia productions, and, in association with Human Rights Watch, the annual Tim Hetherington Grant.
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The Wannsee Conference (film) The Wannsee Conference (German: "Die Wannseekonferenz" ) is a 1984 German TV film portraying the events of the Wannsee Conference, held in Berlin in January 1942. The script is derived from the minutes of the meeting. Since no verbatim transcription of the meeting exists, the dialogue is necessarily fictionalised. The main theme of the film is the bureaucratic nature of the genocide.
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International Meridian Conference The International Meridian Conference was a conference held in October 1884 in Washington, D.C., in the United States, to determine a prime meridian for international use. The conference was held at the request of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur. The subject to discuss was the choice of "a meridian to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the world". It resulted in selection of the Greenwich Meridian as the international standard for zero degrees longitude.
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All India Women's Conference The All India Women's Conference (AIWC) is a non-governmetal organisation (NGO) based in Delhi. It was founded in 1927 by Margaret Cousins, "as an organisation dedicated to upliftment and betterment of women and children". As well as continuing its original mission, the AIWC has since diversified into various social and economic activities involving women. Today there are more than 100,000 members in over 500 branches. AIWC is recognised worldwide as a premier organisation working for women's development and empowerment. AIWC created a journal, "Roshni", in 1941.
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Triennial of Photography The Triennial of Photography ("Triennale der Photographie") is a festival of photography in and around Hamburg, Germany. Originated as an initiative of photographer and collector F. C. Gundlach, currently director of Deichtorhallen Art Center, the Triennale takes place every third year since 1999.
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Leslie Kee Leslie Kee (born 5 April 1971) is a Singaporean photographer. He is based in Japan, having once worked in the United States.
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Brighton Centre Brighton Centre is a conference and exhibition centre located in Brighton, England. It is the largest of its kind in southern England, and is regularly used for conferences of the British political parties and other bodies of national importance. The venue has the capacity to accommodate up to 5,000 delegates, although rooms in the building can be used for weddings and banquets. It has also been used as a live music venue since it was opened by James Callaghan on 19 September 1977. It was designed in a Brutalist style by architects Russell Diplock & Associates, who made extensive use of textured concrete.
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Southern Writers Conference The Southern Writers Conference was held at the University of Virginia in 1931 to discuss “The Relation of the Southern Author to His Public.” It was organized by Virginia Quarterly Review editor James Southall Wilson and presided over by Ellen Glasgow and DuBose Heyward. Notable attending writers included Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Dubose Heyward, Paul Green, Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, Donald Davidson, Mary Johnston, James Boyd, Struthers Burt, Josephine Pinckney, and William Faulkner.
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First Black Lesbian Conference "Becoming Visible: The First Black Lesbian Conference" was held at The Women's Building in San Francisco, California, from October 17 to 19, 1980. It has been credited as the first conference for African-American lesbian women.
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Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology The Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology (ACUA) is an independent, non-profit organization closely affiliated with the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA). The ACUA actively works with the SHA to help organize the annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology by working with the SHA Conference Committee to select an underwater program chair for the annual conference and to organize events at the meetings focused on underwater issues. The organization also collaborates with the SHA Board and various SHA committees on underwater issues. The ACUA publishes the annual "Underwater Archaeology Proceedings", consisting of papers presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology's annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology. The ACUA also produces an annual calendar composed of award-winning photographs from the annual ACUA Photo Competition held each year at the SHA conference. In these roles, the ACUA serves and represents the maritime and underwater archaeology constituency of the SHA. At the same time, the ACUA seeks to broaden the SHA’s membership by encouraging not only historical archaeologists working underwater to attend the annual conferences, but also prehistoric, classical, and other researchers working in the underwater realm.
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French Colonial Conference The French Colonial Conference was an event held in Paris, France, in 1935.
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Travel Photographer of the Year Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) is an international travel photography award for amateur, professional and young photographers. It was founded by photographer Chris Coe in 2003.It is judged by an international panel of experts that includes renowned photographers, editors and picture buyers. The winning entries are published in the "Journey" portfolio books and, since 2011, displayed in a major exhibition held at the Royal Geographical Society.
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The Nantucket Project The Nantucket Project is an annual conference that takes place on Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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Photography Centre of Athens The Photography Centre of Athens was an independent disinterested association which aimed to promote artistic photography in Greece. It was founded in 1979 by five Greek photographers Yiorgos Depollas, Costis Antoniadis, Nikos Panayotopoulos, Stefanos Paschos, and John Demos. Because there was almost no place devoted to photography, the founders decided to create a gallery the primary goal of informing the friends of photography and the general public.
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VRTO Started in 2015, as a Virtual Reality Meetup Group in Toronto, VRTO launched the VRTO Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo in June 2016 - an international exhibition and professional conference exploring arts, culture and science through immersive technologies. Its inaugural year - held at the Mattamy Centre (better known as Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada - featured keynotes from University of Toronto Professor Steve Mann, Hollywood film director Brett Leonard - director of The Lawnmower Man, Chief Digital Officer Ana Serrano of the Canadian Film Centre and Phil Lelyveld of USC.
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Doc NYC Doc NYC (stylized as DOC NYC) is an annual documentary film festival in New York City. Co-founded by Thom Powers and his wife Raphaela Neihausen, the festival is the country's largest documentary film festival with over 300 films and events and 200 special guests. The festival takes place over eight days in November at the West Village's IFC Center and Chelsea's Cinépolis and SVA Theater.
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United Nations Correspondents Association The United Nations Correspondents Association (U.N. Correspondents Association), or UNCA, was founded in New York City in 1948. It has over 250 members today. It presents the annual UNCA Excellence in Journalism Awards. The purpose of the awards "is to recognize and encourage excellence in reporting on the United Nations, its affiliated agencies, organizations and missions."
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Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau The Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau (Robert Doisneau house of photography) is a photography gallery in Gentilly, Paris, created to commemorate the Parisian photographer Robert Doisneau and dedicated to exhibiting humanist photography.