Writer-editor Maura Stephens and photographer George Sapio, authors of the book Collateral Damage: Photographs of the Iraqi People, will share stories and photographs about the humanitarian situation in Iraq today, Oct. 23, at 5 p.m. in B45 Warren Hall.
The Spencer, N.Y., residents have made two humanitarian trips to Iraq this year, and today's talk, titled "Obscured by Spin: The People of Iraq," will focus on their second trip in June and July of this year, after the U.S.-led invasion. Collateral Damage was published after their first trip in February -- before the war -- by Sapio's multimedia company, Bad Dog! Studios. Their mission had been two-fold, the authors said: To deliver food, medicine and other necessities that were in short supply and to put a face on Iraqi families -- chronicled in their book of photographs and text. Since then, the couple has made numerous media appearances and presentations about the situation in Iraq.
Stephens has written on Iraq for Salon.com, Bookpress, and the Ithaca College Quarterly, among other publications. She spent 19 years at Newsweek and Newsweek International in various capacities, and now is the editor of Ithaca College Quarterly magazine. Sapio is a freelance photographer and a playwright.
Copies of Collateral Damage will be available at the Warren Hall presentation. A $5 donation will help cover the cost of printing the book -- which was not published for profit and can also be downloaded from the Web for free at http://www.gsapio.com.
The talk is sponsored by Lambda Pi Eta, the Cornell Department of Communication student honor society.
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