Drawing upon a decades long career and showing work-in-progress, NYU faculty member and award-winning filmmaker Kirsten Johnson will address the changing dimensions and urgent ethical challenges of the practice of documentary cinematography at play today.

Johnson's camerawork appeared in the Cannes - premiering Risk, Academy Award-winning Citizenfour, Academy Award-nominated The Invisible War, Tribeca Documentary-winner Pray The Devil Back To Hell, Cannes-winner Fahrenheit 9/11, and Emmy Award-winning Ladies First. She shared the Sundance 2010 Cinematography Award with Laura Poitras for their work on The Oath. She and Katy Chevigny co-directed Deadline, which premiered at the Berlinale and won the Thurgood Marshall Award.