Panel: Welcome to Camp America, Inside Guantánamo Bay

Please join Steven Kasher Gallery and the Center for Constitutional Justice for an panel discussion on Guantánamo Bay, art, and social justice in conjunction with our exhibition

Debi Cornwall is a conceptual documentary artist who returned to the medium in 2014 after a 12-year career as a wrongful conviction lawyer. Informed by her experience representing innocent DNA exonerees, her visual work marries empathy and dark humor with systemic critique. Her first monograph, Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay (Radius Books), was shortlisted for the 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture First PhotoBook Award and les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles Photo-Text Award. Debi Cornwall: Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay is her first solo exhibition at Steven Kasher Gallery.

J. Wells Dixon is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he specializes in challenging unlawful detentions at the Guantánamo prison. Wells represents clients in federal court, before the military commissions at Guantánamo, and in various international proceedings. Among his clients are former Baltimore-area resident Majid Khan, who was imprisoned and tortured in secret CIA “black sites” for more than three years before he was transferred to Guantánamo, and David Hicks, an Australian citizen and one of the first men taken to Guantánamo after 9/11. Wells is frequently cited as a Guantánamo expert in major news outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, and MSNBC, among others.

An international security consultant, Mark Fallon spent more than 30 years as a special agent with the NCIS, counterintelligence officer, counterterrorism operative, undercover agent, asset handler and law enforcement specialist. A senior ranking member of the Department of Homeland Security under the Bush administration, he has been involved in some of the most significant counterterrorism operations in US history, and has earned numerous honors and medals for his service. He is the author of Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture (Regan Arts, 2017).

Fred Ritchin is an author, curator, editor and critic. He has served as the director of the NYU/Magnum Foundation Photography and Human Rights program; cofounder and director of Pixel Press; and the founding director of the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program of the International Center of Photography (ICP) School, where he is Dean Emeritus.