[EXPOSURE]

In 2003, photojournalist James Nachtwey, Director of the Tufts University Institute for Global Leadership Sherman Teichman, and Tufts student Matthew Edmundson brainstormed in Somerville’s Diesel Café to think up a way to promote responsible journalism and documentary studies at Tufts University. From that session, [EXPOSURE] was born (it became formalized as a program Fall of 2003).

In April 2005, [EXPOSURE] and the Institute for Global Leadership hosted the VII photo agency’s first annual conference. The following summer, photographer Gary Knight and writer Mort Rosenblum held the first [EXPOSURE] workshop in Kosovo, where students documented the aftermath of that conflict six years on.

Since then, the group has grown tremendously. [EXPOSURE] has mounted exhibitions at Tufts featuring student and professional work, organized conferences, sponsored roundtables with journalists, published books, calendars, and more. Later, workshops were held in Bali, Buenos Aires, Philadelphia, Kashmir, Cambodia, Boston, Northern Uganda, and Rajasthan.

Some prominent supporters of the program are Gary Knight, founding member of the VII photo agency; James Nachtwey, VII photographer; Mort Rosenblum, former AP correspondent and editor of the International Herald Tribune; Jim MacMillan, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and others.

Members of [EXPOSURE] have also teamed up with other IGL programs, such as The New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP) in Israel and the West Bank, Lebanon and Iran, and the Alliance Linking Leaders in the Education and the Services (ALLIES) in Jordan.

This winter, the Institute for Global Leadership and [EXPOSURE] will host an exhibition at the Tufts University Art Gallery featuring a retrospective of the work of VII photographers on the theme of “Questions without Answers.”