Events
Selected Past Events
12 to 22 June (Łódź, Poland)
Fotofestiwal Łódź
Model Citizens exhibition
Art_Inkubator, Festival Center, Tymienieckiego 3, Łódź
27 November 2024 to 16 March 2025 (Vevey, Switzerland)
Pineland/Hollywood screens at le Cinéma de l'Appartement
Images Vevey
4 to 20 December 2024 (Poitiers, France)
Pineland/Hollywood screens at le Confort Moderne as part of the series: "Ciné Moderne: Working Days"
4 December 2024 (New York, NY)
Panel Discussion: Model Citizens.
In conversation with Joan Kee, Judy & Michael Steinhardt Director of NYU's Institute of Fine Arts and Cresa Pugh, Sociology Professor at The New School.
Cosponsored by NYU Institute for Public Knowledge & Grey Art Museum
NYU IPK
7 November 2024 (Paris, France)
The Eyes Artist Talk: In conversation with Marc Feustel about Model Citizens
Paris Photo Fair
Grand Palais
10 September 2024 (San Francisco, CA)
CatchLight Focal Point Talk & Model Citizens U.S. Book Launch
With an introduction by Oakland Museum Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Makeda Best
Minnesota Street Project Foundation Exhibition Space
2 July 2024 (Arles, France)
Utopias & Dystopias, a panel discussion with artists Stephen Dock and Bruce Eesly, moderated by Le Point Deputy Editorial Director Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot
22 June 2024 (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Model Citizens/Citoyens Modèles Prix Elysée Book Launch Presentation
Nuit des Images main stage
Photo Elysée
10 September 2023 (New York City)
In conversation with critic-curator-writer Lyle Rexer
PhotoFairsNY, Javits Center
12 July 2023 (London, England)
Artist Lecture alongside Lisa Barnard
The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre
Cosponsored by the V&A Parasol Foundation for Women in Photography and Photo Elysée.
V&A Museum South Kensington
21 April 2023 (Teaneck, NJ)
Leica Society International Spring Shoot Symposium Lecture.
8 April 2023 (San Diego, California)
Pineland/Hollywood screening and talkback with multimedia artist and UCSD Prof. Michael Trigilio.
Medium Photo Festival
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD)
12 March 2022 (New York, NY)
Leica Women's Summit speaker
20 January 2022 (Ulm, Germany)
Panel Discussion: Inside Guantánamo
With releasee author Mohamedou Ould Salahi, Andreas Schueller of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and Urs Feichtner of the Ulm Treatment Center for Torture Victims (BFU) and Amnesty International.
3 December 2021 (Mainz, Germany)
Symposium speaker, “20 Years of Guantánamo: Temporalities of Witnessing” („20 Jahre Guantánamo: Zeitlichkeit der Zeugenschaft“).
With Mansoor Adayfi and Mark Denbeaux.
13 September 2021
"Visualizing the War from Within: Post-9/11 Imagemaking,"
Artist talk & conversation with Nina Berman and Jennifer Karady. Moderated by David Campany and hosted by the ICP Museum.
29 June 2021
Panelist & presenter, “The Real, the Unreal, and the Authentic”
With Marvin Heiferman, Josué Rivas, and Alexey Yurenev.
Moderated by Fred Ritchin.
Beyond Magnum, Chapter 3: "Toward a Future for Photography"
22 April 2021
Panelist, "The Art of Pitches and Proposals," with Magnum Foundation Director Emma Raynes, Photo Editor Sandra Stevenson, and photographers Maggie Steber and Yana Paskova. Moderated by Photoville cofounder Laura Roumanos.
Leica Women Summit
17, 18 & 19 February 2021
ICP Lessons: Debi Cornwall on Necessary Fictions
A three-day series of online lectures and discussions hosted by David Campany.
4 September 2020 (Watch online)
Necessary Fictions US book launch, with Yasufumi Nakamori, Tate Modern Senior Curator of International Art (Photography), and Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photographs, Harvard Art Museums.
Hosted by Radius Books.
31 July 2020 (Watch an excerpt here at #3: Realities and Fictions)
Panelist, "Visual Journalism in the Post-Truth Era," with Tanya Habjouqa, Stephen Mayes, and Zahra Rasool. Moderated by Fred Ritchin, hosted by Fotodemic.
16 January 2020 (Washington, D.C.)
Invited speaker, National Geographic Storytellers Summit.
11 October 2018 (New Haven, CT)
Artist Lecture, Yale Law School Visual Law Project
28 June 2018 (Philadelphia, PA)
Panelist, "Rendered: Art, Wrongful Imprisonment, and Guantánamo."
With releasee memoirist Mohamedou Ould Salahi; attorney Christi A. Charpentier; and artist Emily Abendroth, founder of the Lifelines Project. Moderated by Prof. Nicole Fleetwood.
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
5 April 2018 (New York, NY)
Aperture PhotoBook Spotlight talk with Lesley A. Martin and David Chickey
AIPAD.
16 March 2018 (Houston, TX)
Creative Conversation with James Estrin, New York Times Lens editor
Fotofest Biennial.
10 February 2018 (Paris, France)
Conversation between Debi Cornwall, Aglaia Konrad, Paola Yakoub, and curator Diane Dufour on work in the group show, En Suspens (In Between).
Le BAL.
13 November 2017 (Paris, France)
Artist Lecture & Discussion, Photography in the Age of Global Surveillance and Perpetual Wars, with Lewis Bush
Columbia University Global Centers.
16 October 2017 (New York, NY)
Symposium Panelist, What Does it Mean to Make Art at Guantánamo?
John Jay College, CUNY.
5 October 2017 (New York, NY)
Panelist, Bending the Frame: Where do we go from here? Moderated by Fred Ritchin.
NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
22 September 2017, MoMA PS1 (Queens, NY)
Panelist, "Photobooks: Protest & Resistance," Contemporary Artists' Book Conference
New York Art Book Fair.
14 March 2017 (Geneva, Switzerland)
Panelist, Saying War, Building Peace
Palais des Nations, UN Headquarters.