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Jesse Hirsh is an internet strategist, researcher and broadcaster based in Toronto. He has a weekly column on CBC radio and regularly appears on CBC Newsworld explaining and analyzing the latest trends and developments in technology using language and examples that are meaningful and relevant to everyday life.

Hirsh owns and operates the consulting firm Openflows Networks Ltd., which specializes in using open source intelligence to develop Internet strategies. He was educated at the McLuhan Program at the University of Toronto. His passion is educating people on the potential benefits and perils of technology.

In his keynote address, Little Brothers and Little Sisters: Youth as the Vanguard of the Surveillance Society, Hirsh will discuss how photography is changing due to both the ubiquity of cameras and the visual nature of youth culture.

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Tom Persinger is photographer, writer, curator, and the founder of F295. F295 is an international organization that believes in the value of a heterogeneous photographic approach, in which digital, historic, and self-made methods are employed and combined in the creation of a new 21st century photography. Persinger has lectured at numerous colleges and universities,led many workshops, been published widely, and is currentlyPHOTO EDUCATORS’ FORUM INCLUDES: teaching at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. He organizes the F295 seminars and the annual F295 symposium to promote the exploration of 21st century photography.

In his illustrated talk, The Timeless Art of 21st Century Photography, Persinger will discuss the concepts and ideas behind 21st century photography, the exciting work being created by contemporary photographers who are engaged in its creation, the organization F295, and his own photographic work exploring the themes of light, time, and the apparatus, using the most primitive devices of the pinhole camera. By exploring various techniques or freely combining photographic processes in their work, today’s innovative artists are moving beyond the traditional photographic paradigm characterized by the adoption of newer equipment and the obsolescence of older equipment. It is through this unique heterogeneous application of methods that the photographer is able to create exciting and timeless images, and raise the question of what it means to be a photographer today.

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