Photojournalist Scout Tufankjian to speak at New York University

PanARMENIAN.Net - Photojournalist Scout Tufankjian will speak about her experience documenting Armenian communities for the Armenian Diaspora Project at the 2015 Armenian Relief Society (ARS) Youth Connect Program (YCP), to be held at New York University (NYU) on Feb 28 and March 1, the Armenian Weekly reports.

Tufankjian is a photojournalist based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her work has been featured in Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Le Monde, Newsday, and the New York Times. Her book featuring a selection of the photographs from Obama’s presidential campaign, Yes We Can: Barack Obama’s History-Making Presidential Campaign in December 2008, sold out its initial 55,000 copy run a month before it was released. Tufankjian’s photo of Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama hugging each other, released in Nov 2012, became the most-liked photo on Facebook and most retweeted Tweet in history.

The event will also feature a talk by scholar Khatchig Mouradian, the director of the ARS Youth Connect Program. Other speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.

The theme of the two-day program will be “Looking Beyond the Centennial.”