Collaboration: A Potential History
14 November 2023
Edmund Clark, Reader in the Political Image at LCC, is in discussion with Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Laura Wexler about their new book exploring and recontextualising collaborative photographic practice.
Collaboration presents a groundbreaking and multifaceted history of photography which explores photography through the lens of collaboration, challenging the dominant narratives around photographic history and authorship. In a vast, collaborative effort led by five of the great thinkers and practitioners in photography that includes more than 550 photographs and over 80 text contributors, this book breaks apart photography’s ‘single creator’ tradition by bringing to light tangible traces of collaboration – the various relationships, exchanges and interactions which occur between all participants in the event of photography.
Orange Screen in the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries
10 November 2023
The film ‘Orange Screen’, made by Edmund Clark in collaboration with Max Houghton, has been included in the new Blavatnik Galleries at the IWM.
IWM’s new Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries provide a vivid account of modern war.
Showcasing the experiences and innovations of artists, filmmakers and photographers, these galleries explore the complex tension between creativity and destruction.
Discover how visual practitioners are also powerful narrators who shape how we think and feel about conflict, and the role of art, film and photography in influencing public opinion.
Over 500 works chosen for display reflect the seismic social, cultural and political changes across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the individual perspectives of their makers.
Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography
November 2023
‘Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition’, by Edmund Clark and Crofton Black, is included in a groundbreaking new book by Ariella Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford, Laura Wexler
Collaboration presents a groundbreaking and multifaceted history of photography which explores photography through the lens of collaboration, challenging the dominant narratives around photographic history and authorship. In a vast, collaborative effort led by five of the great thinkers and practitioners in photography that includes more than 550 photographs and over 80 text contributors, this book breaks apart photography’s ‘single creator’ tradition by bringing to light tangible traces of collaboration – the various relationships, exchanges and interactions which occur between all participants in the event of photography.
Looking Other Ways: Contemporary Readings of Archival Presences
17 October 2023
A presentation of collaborative research by the Arab Image Foundation and London College of Communication.
How can looking at images of the past help us understand the present?
Hear the artists and researchers of the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, and artist and London College of Communication Reader in the Political Image, Edmund Clark, discuss how visual research into archives of images, and conversations about what the reading of past framings of the world mean, develop shared understandings of contemporary situations. The Arab Image Foundation members will present the history and future of the foundation in Beirut, and, with Edmund Clark, will discuss how research into the foundation’s archives can contribute to understanding political and social issues.
Arab Image Foundation Panel Discussion
18 October 2023
Hear artists and researchers from the Arab Image Foundation (AIF) in Beirut discuss the way transdisciplinary research into photographic archives develop diverse understandings of contemporary situations.
AIF members Vartan Avakian, Fabiola Hanna and Rana Nasser Eddin will share preservation and research practices at the foundation with artist Edmund Clark, who will be moderating the event.
Together they will look at how research into archives contributes to wider understanding of political and social issues.
See the details of the event on the Photographers’ Gallery website here.