Location: n-ost media hub, Erkelenzdamm 59-61, Portal 1b, 10999 Berlin

Join us for a talk and drink at the n-ost media hub for a peek into the media kitchen. Each month we invite journalists, experts and their audiences to take a seat at our table for conversations on journalism and its impact. This October, we examine the role of documentary photography in the time of AI-generated images.

In today’s post-truth landscape, the ultimate weapon isn’t the fake image, but the doubt it casts on everything real. This threatens trust, fuels disinformation, and weakens photography’s role as evidence. But it also gives us a chance to reassert the importance of context, verification, and documentary photography that stays rooted in truth. We will debate whether photography’s role is to simply deliver distorted realities or to build a new bridge of trust between the author and the audience.

Join our discussion with

Natalia Kepesz – Polish documentary photographer based in Berlin represented by Laif photoagency.

Gesine Born – science communicator based in Germany and the founder of Bilderinstitut, an organisation dedicated to making science visible.

Selene Magnolia Gatti – Italian documentary photographer and visual journalist based in Berlin.

Moderated by Ramin Mazur (n-ost)