

Fri, May 29
|Fee: Yes / Prize: Exhibition + Visibility
8th International Conference of Photography & Theory Open Call
Theme: Photography’s Material Conditions: Residue, Object(hood) and Practices in the Expanded Field. Since the 1960s, photography has operated within an expanded field of fluid and intertwined media. More recent discussions on the...
Deadline / Fee / Prize:
May 29, 2026, 11:30 PM
Fee: Yes / Prize: Exhibition + Visibility
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Since the 1960s, photography has operated within an expanded field of fluid and intertwined media. More recent discussions on the post-medium condition and the expanded field of photography have situated the photographic image within debates about the collapsing boundaries between media and the emergence of modalities that unfold between image and object, as well as between representation and construction. These shifting boundaries prompt a reconsideration of how different media construct and transform conditions of visibility, particularly in relation to photography’s material conditions as they are reconfigured through emerging processes of (re)production. At the same time, systems of transmission and mediation produce new visual economies that shape contemporary modes of spectatorship. How do such expansions enable practices that restructure visual discourse and our interpretation of material cues? How might we understand the so-called “death of representation” alongside the emergence of new materialities? How can we speak of photographies’ object(hood)?