To coincide with the end of the World Press Photo photojournalism exhibition, Edinburgh' Festival of Politics is organising three talks to examine the issues faced by photojournalists in today's world.

British photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind will discuss her work in the talk Raised by Women: A Photographic Essay on Female Dominated Communities. Her work has taken her to live with the PKK in the Kurdish mountains, document the Cossack resurgence over the Southern Russian steppes and along the trans-Siberian railway with model scouts in search of new talent. Olivier Laurent, news and online editor at British Journal of Photography, will chair the talk.

In From revolution to representation - the impact of social media on politics, a panel of professional photographers and new media commentators will discuss the impact of social media on the world of politics and social change in different parts of the world. The panel will include Ed Ou, photojournalist and World Press Photo 2011 winner who also documented the recent revolution in Egypt and considered social media's impact on the events, Simon Roberts, World Press Photo 2010 winner, and Chris Payne, who is active in debates surrounding new media and photography. Patrick Harvie MSP will chair the talk.

Taylor-Lind and artist Mark Neville will also be in conversation with Allan Little of the BBC to explore the photographer's role while covering conflict. Together they will look at the associated risks and dangers, impacts on those both involved and outside the situation and finally if photography presents the news, is actually a tool to call people to action or simply used to document that the conflict has happened.

For more information on talk times and locations, visit: festivalofpolitics.org.uk/wpp.htm.