The annual symposium,
Urban Encounters: Routes and Transitions at Tate Britain on 29 May, 2010

and the new symposium/workshop weekend,
Urban Encounters: City to Sea at Bognor Regis on 12 & 13 June, 2010

More information on both events coming soon – watch this space!
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This one-day symposium uses the lens of urban photography to bring together international researchers, academics, photographers and artists concerned with the nature of contemporary urban spaces and cultures. It is of particular relevance to those engaged with urban image-making, analysis and research. Speakers will address photographic interpretations of urban landscapes in relation to migration and change, place, identity and the cultural geographies of city life. Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape will facilitate an interdisciplinary dialogue about the growing field of urban visual practice, method and enquiry.

Urban Encounters is annually curated by Gabrielle Bendiner–Viani and Paul Halliday.

You can now listen to the whole conference on iTunes U/Tate IQ!

Keynote: Marketa Luskacova + Panel 1: Mapping Landscapes
Panel 2: Human Landscapes
Panel 3: Mapping Landscapes

16 & 17 May, 2008 at Goldsmiths, University of London
Introducing a new conference on Urban Photography

A new collaboration of photographers and theorists.

The urban photography conference aims to develop an international intellectual exchange and creative environment to facilitate a synthesis between urban theory and photographic practice. Designed for photographers, artists and ethnographers who address notions of urban space and culture, the symposium will explore how the practice of making urban images might inform the development of a reflexive and critical critique. Through dialogues across many disciplines, symposium participants will contribute to building the interdisciplinary field of urban photography.

This symposium has been developed with CUCR (Centre for Urban and Community Research) as a means by which to develop an on-going discursive and practice space focusing on the interdisciplinary nature of urban photography. The idea for such an initiative came from a number of conversations between Paul Halliday who is the course leader on the MA Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths College and Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani based at the New School, a photographer, curator and environmental psychologist whose work encompasses everyday spatial experience and the visual representation of urban space.