Photography As Dialogue brings together writing, projects, research and a film that explore how communities, researchers and artists are using photography to carve out and open up spaces for conversations. This special issue of the academic journal Photography & Culture, edited by Tiffany Fairey and Liz Orton, explores the dialogical potential… Continue reading
Interview with Marc Azoulay, manager of JR’s Inside Out project. As far as participatory arts experiments go, Inside Out is staggering for its scope and scale. The French photographer JR launched the global participatory art project when he won the $1million Ted prize in 2011. He is the youngest… Continue reading
The Blind Photographer, published at the end of last year by Redstone Press, is a photography book that challenges our conception of what it means to see. Showcasing the work of more than fifty blind or partially sighted photographers from around the world, it celebrates the thriving and counter-intuitive… Continue reading
Foreword When I wrote ‘Jack of all trades, master of none’ eight years ago I was just beginning to explore the relationship between photographers and those they picture. Participatory photography (PP) was considered rather hip at the time, partly fuelled by the success of the film ‘Born into Brothels.’ I was… Continue reading
17 years of photography workshops in the same community: A conversation with Moira Rubio Brennan and Miriam Priotti, directors of PH15. As participatory, collaborative and community-based photography projects proliferate, initiatives that stand the test of time stick out from the crowd. This is not to say that projects… Continue reading