Photojournalist Yunghi Kim will give a lecture at The Williston Northampton School’s Photographers’ Lecture Series in the Dodge Room in the Reed Campus Center on January 19, 2010, at 6:30 p.m.

Currently a staff photographer for the Boston Globe, Yunghi Kim captures international conflicts through her images. In 1992 while covering the famine in Somalia, Kim was taken hostage by rebels. Eventually she was freed by the United Nations and CARE and she returned to Somalia days later to complete her assignment. She documented the lives of former South Korean Comfort Women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during WWII. She also photographed Rwandan refugees in 1994, political upheaval in Indonesia in 1998, Kosovar refugees in 2000, the turmoil in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2002, and the Iraq War in 2003.The recipient of several World Press Photo awards, Kim was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association. She is a regular contributor to US News & World Report, Time, and Fortune.

All presentations, which are free and open to the public, take place in the Dodge Room of the Reed Campus Center at The Williston Northampton School. For more information, please call 413-529-3237. Dates are subject to change. See www.williston.com for updates.