Harvard Club of Washington, DC

Exclusive Tour of the 2018 World Press Photo Exhibition (October Tour Option)

Limited to Harvard Club members and their guests

The tours of the 2018 World Press Photo exhibition will be an exclusive event, with the entire Dupont Underground at our disposal.  The tours will be given by Robert Meins, who is the founder and executive director of the Lightscape Foundation, which spearheaded the effort to bring the exhibition to Washington in 2017.  To keep the event as interactive as possible  no more than fifteen people at a time will be allowed. Similar tours given last year have lasted anywhere between one and three hours, depending on the issues participants are interested in and questions asked.  The exhibition is a lot to take in all at once, so anyone joining a tour is more than welcome to come back as often as he/she likes. 
 

The World Press Photo Exhibition represents the year's best visual journalism.  It is seen by 4 million people in 100 cities across the globe, every year. Lightscape brings the exhibition to Washington DC to bring perspective the complex issues confronting us in the daily news cycle.  We collaborate with leading think-tanks, universities, embassies, international-, media- and civil society organizations to tell the stories behind the photos to encourage deeper undestanding and debate.
 

The exhibitions covers a broad range of issues from the Rohingya crisis and conflicts in the Middle-East to elephant conservation, from marathons in the Moroccan desert to the impact of climate change, and from the interplay between race and policing to gender identity.  This is photojournalism at its best and most thought-provoking.

Registration for the 10/29 Tour
$30/person.  Limited to Harvard Club members and their guests

Robert W. Meins is the Executive Director of the Lightscape Foundation. A development economist by profession and an ardent believer in the power of images to foster greater understanding, Robert is a global expert in migration and remittances.
 

He worked for the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington and the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development in Rome. He has been widely quoted in the media, including in the Washington Post, Financial Times and National Public Radio.
 

Robert has a long history with World Press Photo. While studying in the Netherlands he chaired discussions between American, Dutch and Middle-Eastern students in the aftermath of 9-11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A friend working for World Press Photo suggested using the exhibition to get people more engaged with topics of international importance. The foundation he created as a result of that discussion is celebrating its 15th year this October and was the inspiration behind bringing World Press Photo to Washington DC.