News & Events
To see our most recent news and events see the pages below.
Use the search below or the calendar to the right to find specific newsletters, calls for entry, webinars, etc.
New from our Members, 2020-2021
We are proud to celebrate our members’ myriad achievements in the form of books, chapters, articles, essays, exhibitions, and more. Thanks to all who submitted! We hope to make this a regular newsletter feature.
A full list of submitted exhibitions and publications can be found on the 2020-2021 Member Highlights and is included on our Member Activities webpages.
Documents / Documentary / Photography: Authors Heather Diack and Sarah M. Miller in Conversation
Join us for a lively event honoring PN 2021 Book Prize Awardees Heather Diack, author of Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art (UMN Press, 2020), and Sarah M. Miller, author of Documentary in Dispute: The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland (RIC Books with MIT Press, 2020).
Congratulations to the 2021 Photography Network Awardees
The Photography Network project grant is designed to help emerging scholars, curators, and artists with funds needed to complete a work in progress.
This prize seeks to honor innovation in photography scholarship, expression, and dissemination.
The Material and the Virtual in Photographic Histories: Virtual Symposium
October 7-9th, 2021
The First Symposium of the Photography Network will be held virtually, jointly hosted by the Photography Network and Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen.
Call for Papers: CAA 2022 Annual Conference
Picturing Fabrics: Textile and the Photographic Image
CAA 2022 Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 16–19, 2022 Photography Network sponsored session
Due: September 6th
Grant and Fellowship Writing Workshop
Join Photography Network for a Grant and Fellowship Writing Workshop with Dr. Miguel de Baca, Senior Program Officer at the J. Paul Getty Trust, on August 25 at 9am PDT/12pm EDT/6pm CEST.
The Photography Network Writing Group
Come write with us! The Photography Network announces the formation of a twice monthly virtual writing group for members to support the development and publication of our research. Many of us know the challenge of making time to write. This group will offer a collegial space for focusing and making progress on our writing projects.
Fotoclubismo: A Conversation with Sarah Meister & Abigail Lapin Dardashti, July 20th
Join us for a lively discussion regarding the MoMA exhibition and catalog Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946-1965.
Tuesday, July 20, at 9 AM PDT / 12 noon EDT / 6 PM CEST
First Annual Awards
The book prize seeks to honor innovation in photography scholarship, expression, and distribution.
The project grant is designed to help emerging scholars, curators, and artists with funds needed to complete a work in progress.
Due: July 1st
Call for Papers: Virtual Symposium
The First Symposium of the Photography Network will be held on October 8-9, 2021, online and is jointly hosted by the Photography Network and Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany. Proposals are due June 15, 2021
February 2021
Photography Network had two events in February surrounding the CAA Annual Conference: a Friday business meeting and our first CAA-sponsored session on “Photographic Networks.” 72 individuals from around the world attended the annual business meeting, and 17 curators, photo historians, and photographers shared their research during a lively Pecha Kucha. Please see Zoom photographs below. We also introduced the new board and solicited suggestions for PN programming.
January 2021
We have become a non-profit 501(c)3 with bylaws.
Photography Network is debuting its membership program in January 2021, with three available tiers of membership: Student/Unaffiliated, Affiliated, and Sustaining. Members support the mission of Photography Network and have access to other members’ syllabi.
February 2020
Photography Network’s community gathered for an informal happy hour at Mercat a la Planxa in Chicago on Valentine’s Day, 2020, and again the next day for a formal business meeting as part of the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference.
