Global Photographies: Transnationality/Regionality

Speakers: Lucy Soutter, Reader Photography, University of Westminster; Duncan Wooldridge, Reader Photography, Manchester Metropolitan University; and Tanvi Mishra, Curator/writer

Moderator: Suryanandini Narain, Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Introduction: Rahaab Allana, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts

Does contemporary photography offer strategies to rethink and reorganize our sense of the global and local? What are the shared tools, dynamic strategies and new fields of possibility for images? The talks address how ecological and decolonial discourses around photography reveal the medium’s global entanglements: images produced on one side of the world are intricately connected to the other, including by way of imperial histories, labour and migration. A multiplicity of approaches, intentions if not inferences may reveal that despite its alleged understanding as a universal language, the photograph can be deployed to serve radically different ends

(Collaboration: The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts; University of Westminster; CREAM; Manchester Metropolitan University; SODA – School of Digital Arts; and ahead – Arts and Humanities Engagement and Dialogue)