Photography after Postmodernism by David Bate has recently been published by Routledge. In life after postmodernism our conception of photography is not the same as before. Photography After Postmodernism starts with this conception and explores what changes have affected photography, its relation to social life and our image-centred culture. Engaging with the visual environment and issues that […]
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Exhibition curated by David Campany Of all the celebrated photographers of the last century, the one who remains the most relevant today is Walker Evans (1903–1975). Some of his images are among the best known in the history of the medium. Direct and generous, analytical yet lyrical, carefully composed but unforced, the ways in which […]
On August 26th, Eugenie Shinkle and Callum Beaney launched their collaborative artist’s book The Prototype. Published by London-based imprint Folium Publishing, The Prototype explores photographic abstraction alongside the affinities between sound and vision. From the colophon: This work began with a book dummy, created by Callum from photographs of wooden blocks and their shadows. He sent it […]
David Moore’s film Monitor (2005) continues within the international touring exhibition, Civilization. The Way we Live Now, at Musei San Domenico, Forlì, Italy, from 17th September 2022 until 8th January 2023. Based on a series of Moore’s documentary photographs, also currently being toured in Europe within the survey of British photography, Facing Britain; the short film, presented within a walk in and immersive environment explores the corporate workspace as […]
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We are pleased to announce the Third Photographies International Conference on Photography. This time it takes place in San Antonio, Texas. UTSA Southwest300 Augusta San Antonio, TX 78205 Conference ConvenorsDavid Bate, Professor, University of Westminster, UK, Liz Wells, Emeritus Professor, University of Plymouth, UKErina Duganne, Professor, Texas State University, USALibby Rowe, Professor, UTSA, USA The third photographies journal conference will be […]
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David Bate has curated an exhibition of BA and MA Photography students from The University of Westminster for the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, held in September 2022. The show will be part of the Photography in Education showcase that is being held this year and exhibition along with other leading photography courses in Europe, America […]
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Introduction Given the shifting shape of photography in computerized societies, we are initiating events to discuss the new emergent roles of the photographic image in them. In this symposium, titled Virtual Photography, we have invited computer industry and educational specialists to present, exchange and discuss the different advances of computational and virtual images. The symposium aims to explore the implications of these changes for industry, education and individual creative producers, artists and photographers. Hosted at the University of Westminster, the first […]
We are so delighted to invite you to the next instalment of our 2021-2022 Global Photographies Network Talks Programme! This time, we’ll be hearing from Rahaab Allana, Tanvi Mishra and Philippe Calia with their talk on PIX and the South Asian Imaginary. As PIX— conceived and launched in 2009/10 as a quarterly— now completes its 20th publication and 18th issue-based […]
Following our successful journal conferences held in London (2017) and Singapore (2020) photographies journal announces its third international conference for 2022. The event will be in-person. It will be co-hosted with University of Texas, San Antonio, September 22-24 2022. As previously, we aim to bring together thinkers and photographers in discussion about photography today. We invite papers […]
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Once called “La perle de l’empire,” Indochina was understood as one of France’s benevolent and civilising enterprises. Within the context of colonial expansion, photography played a substantial yet overlooked role in defining vernacular forms of modernity for the indigènes. In this lecture, Jacqueline Hong Nguyén will focus on the international mobility of Vietnamese photographers during […]