ERRAR — in Portuguese, the word has multiple meanings. On one hand, errar evokes wandering: an errant practice of photography that moves through territories, from the nineteenth-century figure of the flâneur described by Baudelaire—one who walks without destination, gathering§ impressions along the way—to the situationist dérive, and into contemporary forms of dispersed movement across digital and networked spaces.  In this sense, wandering becomes a mode of assembling experiences, a subjective montage shaped by the contingencies of the path; it is exploratory and provisional: a movement whose destination is constantly shifting.

On the other hand, errar means to err—to misstep, to hesitate, to search through uncertainty. Here error is not failure but a generative condition: a way of circling a question, testing viewpoints, and approaching thought through images. Error can be understood as invention, a deviation from established norms and canons. It is an anti-canonical gesture that opens space for experimentation and performance. 

This conference invites photographers and other practitioners working with photographic images to present visual essays, photobooks, and other photography-based works that respond to these twin meanings of errar: Projects that wander, drift, or deviate; works that embrace experimentation, doubt, and the productive potential of the mistake. We welcome proposals that explore the photographic as a practice of movement—through landscapes, archives, platforms, and ideas—and as a form of thinking that unfolds through approximation rather than resolution.