Advertiser photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Jeff Widener will give two free talks at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, as part of the university's Distinguished Lecture Series.

During "Unseen Hawaii," a public lecture set for 7 p.m. Friday at the East-West Center's Keoni Auditorium, Widener will share recent photographs and discuss highlights of his 30-year career.

Widener will also participate in a discussion for faculty and students at noon Nov. 2 at the East-West Center's Ohana Room.

Widener is best known in photography circles for "The Unknown Rebel," which shows a lone man confronting tanks in Tiananmen Square during the 1989 protests in Beijing. The photograph was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for "Spot News Photography."

Widener has covered assignments in more than 100 countries, including East Timor, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Burma, Syria, Jordan, India, Laos, Vietnam and Pakistan. He was the first photojournalist to file digital images from the South Pole.

Widener has been a staff photographer at The Honolulu Advertiser since 2004, winning several awards for his photography at the newspaper.

For more information about the talks and the lecture series, contact Glendon B. Hunsinger or Hope Jahren at 956-2363.