Author Gabriel Peters-Lazaro

Gabriel Peters-Lazaro

Gabriel Peters-Lazaro is the director of photography and producer for the film One More Shot. He is the media design lead and an instructor in the Media Arts+Practice Division at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. He researches, designs and produces media for innovative learning and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on digital media theory and production, new media for social change, and digital tools and tactics. He holds an M.F.A. in film directing and production from UCLA, a B.A. in film studies from UC Berkeley, is a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Youth and Participatory Politics research network, serves on the advisory committee of LA Makerspace and has presented his film and academic work at conferences and festivals from San Francisco to Doha.

How Do We Navigate Medical Images and ‘Self?’

Gabriel Peters-Lazaro

Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture

Within a culture dominated by visual media, the images we make and share of ourselves are inevitably influenced and complicated by the wider cultural vernacular.