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Fred Ritchin is professor of photography and imaging at New York University. Previously the picture editor of the New York Times Magazine, executive editor of Camera Arts magazine, and founding director of the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Program at the International Center of Photography, Ritchin has written and lectured internationally on media for many years. The author of In Our Own Image : The Coming Revolution in Photography, his essays also have appeared in books such as In Our Time : The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers, Sahel : The End of the Road, and Under Fire : Great Photographers and Writers in Vietnam.

He is also director of PixelPress (pixelpress.org), an organization that works at the intersection of new media, documentary, and human rights, collaborating with humanitarian organizations on campaigns such as the one to end polio globally or to advance the Millenium Development Goals. He lives with his family in New York City.