Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape
23 May, 2009 at Tate Britain
Full symposium programme and abstracts are here.
This one-day symposium used 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.
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Keynote: Marketa Luskacova + Panel 1: Mapping Landscapes
Panel 2: Human Landscapes
Panel 3: Mapping Landscapes
The full programme for the 2009 conference is here.
Images from the 2009 conference are here.
Urban Encounters: Photography, Ethnography & the City
16 & 17 May, 2008 at Goldsmiths, University of London
Full symposium programme and abstracts are here.
A new collaboration of photographers and theorists, the urban photography conference aimed 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.