We are happy to announce Canon will be on campus to demonstrate their new gear including both video as well as still photography and they are sponsoring speaker Krisanne Johnson who will be visiting this week for a lecture sponsored by Canon on Thursday, March 23 at 7:00 p.m. in Schoonover 145. Krisanne is a former VisCom graduate student who is currently a freelance photographer based in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Since 2006, Krisanne has been working on long-term personal projects about young women and HIV/AIDS in Swaziland and South Africa's post-apartheid youth culture. Krisanne’s work has been exhibited internationally and has appeared in various magazines and newspapers, including The New Yorker, TIME, The New York Times, Fader, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, US News & World Report, L’Espresso (Italy), Vanity Fair (Italy), D la Repubblica (Italy). She is represented by Prospekt Photo Agency in Milan, Italy.

In addition, Canon will be holding an open gear demo at the back side of the Schoonover lobby on Thursday, March 23 from 12:30 - 3 p.m. Please stop by to say hi to the Canon folks, test out some of the latest Canon gear, and get some pizza.