March 19th-20th
Location: School of Digital Arts
Event Type: In-person
This conference examines the significance of darkness, proposing to invert our thinking about photography and remind us of the image’s many entanglements and consequences, buried possibilities and repressed impulses. Drawing together artists, researchers, writers, curators, the conference makes visible the many resonances of darkness as a necessary subject in approaching photography’s elaborate material, industrial, psychical and social roots and interconnections.
Organised by the Photography Programme in the School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, and the Media and Digital Culture Research Group.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME:
Thursday 19th March (13.00 – 19.00)
GF.12 SODA Cinema
Ground Floor, SODA Building
Introduction from Duncan Wooldridge with presentations by Michelle Henning, Zsuzsanna Szegedy Maszak, Julie F Hill, Sian Macfarlane, Sarah Jones, Tom Viaene, Jamie Jelinski Lisa Barnard, Holly Birtles, Teemu Hupli and Helen McGhie.
Friday 20th March (10.00 – 17.00)
2.19 SODA Village Green
2nd Floor, SODA Building
Presentations by Roger Ballen, Ellen Yiwei Wang, Laura Hynd, Sue Fox, Sara Dominici, Aspen Mays, David Penny, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Manila Castoro, Jana Müller and Benjamin Green. With performances by Lucy Soutter, Jessie Edwards-Thomas and Tom Lovelace
