Fred Ritchin was picture editor of The New York Times Magazine (1978-82), executive editor of Camera Arts magazine (1982-83), and founding director of the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Program at the International Center of Photography (1983-86). He is now associate professor of photography and communications at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a new media consultant to news and photo organizations. Ritchin has written the book, In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography (Aperture, 1990 (reissued 1999)), and co-authored In Our Time: The World As Seen By Magnum Photographers (W. W. Norton, 1989), An Uncertain Grace: The Photographs of Sebastiao Salgado (Aperture, 1990), and Mexico Through Foreign Eyes: Photographs, 1850-1990 (W. W. Norton, 1993). He is currently writing a book, Reinventing Photography.