This webinar series brings together scholars, artists, and curators to explore the role of photography in negotiating ecological entanglements. Positioned between its historical functions of classification and documentation, and its contemporary capacity to unsettle hegemonic narratives, photography constitutes a privileged site for examining the interrelation of environmental transformation, memory, and representation. As both image and object, photography registers the traces of ecological crisis while simultaneously embodying the spectral and generative qualities of the archive. This duality prompts critical reflection on how photographic practices might resist logics of exploitation and control, instead activating new modalities of attention, care, and relationality across human and non-human domains.
 

By foregrounding the intersections of photographic practice, archival imaginaries, and ecological thought, the series aims to situate photography as a medium through which the politics of the present are both recorded and reconfigured, opening pathways toward reimagining more livable futures. In doing so, this webinar series interrogates how photography can simultaneously reproduce and unsettle epistemologies of power, underscoring its role as a critical site where ecological imaginaries are negotiated and contested.

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Programme organizer/moderator

Ana Catarina Pinho