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.

Call for Applications: Writing & Publishing Seminar
Stephanie Burchett Stephanie Burchett

Call for Applications: Writing & Publishing Seminar

Photography Network is launching a two-week writing and publishing seminar to support and promote new voices in photography scholarship, curation, and criticism, to take place online from July 31 through August 11, 2023.

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Curators' Roundtable on Photography Donations and the 21st-Century Museum
Stephanie Burchett Stephanie Burchett

Curators' Roundtable on Photography Donations and the 21st-Century Museum

Thursday, December 8, 9 AM PST / 12 noon EST / 5 PM GMT 

Two institutional case studies, from the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) and LACMA / Brooklyn Museum, will explore how curators think about and contextualize permanent collections in ways that will resonate with audiences, advance the institution’s mission, and open further interpretive possibilities.

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Shimmer Shimmer: Trans*queer Embodiment and Gender Abolition
Stephanie Burchett Stephanie Burchett

Shimmer Shimmer: Trans*queer Embodiment and Gender Abolition

In this presentation trans*queer artist Lorenzo Triburgo will discuss their recent essay, “Representational Refusal and the Embodiment of Gender Abolition” (for the special issue of GLQ, Queer Fire and Liberation, spring 2022) and ongoing project Shimmer Shimmer, both created in collaboration with their (queer-femme) partner Sarah Van Dyck.

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Congratulations to Josie Johnson!
Stephanie Burchett Stephanie Burchett

Congratulations to Josie Johnson!

Congratulations to Josie Johnson, who received a PN Project Grant in 2021 and used the funds to complete and publish the article: Pictures for the Taking: Margaret Bourke-White’s Soviet Photographs in Magazines.

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Who’s afraid of art and photography? A presentation by Juliet Hacking and Joanne Lukitsh
Stephanie Burchett Stephanie Burchett

Who’s afraid of art and photography? A presentation by Juliet Hacking and Joanne Lukitsh

Photography Network is proud to present this virtual program.

Recent scholarly discourse on photographies has treated the subject of art and photography as a relic of the past. Has the aesthetic been delegitimized as a vital area of scholarly research? In this presentation Juliet Hacking and Joanne Lukitsh, editors of a recent anthology of essays on art and photography in the 19th century, make the case for revisiting the material and metaphorical interplay between photography and the arts, with “arts” encompassing a range of media from the visual culture of the time.

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Call for Submissions: Annual Project Grant
Stephanie Burchett Stephanie Burchett

Call for Submissions: Annual Project Grant

Photography Network seeks submissions for its annual project grant. The Photography Network project grant is designed to help emerging scholars, curators, and artists with funds needed to complete a work in progress.

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Call for Submissions: Annual Book Prize
Stephanie Burchett Stephanie Burchett

Call for Submissions: Annual Book Prize

Photography Network seeks submissions for its annual book prize. The Photography Network book prize seeks to honor innovation in photography scholarship, expression, and dissemination.

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Call for Proposals: Photography Network’s CAA 2023 Sponsored Session
Stephanie Burchett Stephanie Burchett

Call for Proposals: Photography Network’s CAA 2023 Sponsored Session

Would you like to chair or co-chair Photography Network’s sponsored session at next year's College Art Association conference in New York? As a CAA Affiliated Society, Photography Network fosters discussion, research, and new approaches to the study and practice of photography in its relation to art, culture, society, and history, and mounts a yearly session at the conference.

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Navigating the Digitization of Photographic Research
Stephanie Burchett Stephanie Burchett

Navigating the Digitization of Photographic Research

Photography Network is excited to host the workshop “Navigating the Digitization of Photographic Research.” This event has been rescheduled to Tuesday, April 19th, 9 AM PDT / 12 noon EDT / 4 PM GMT. Organized by Emily Pugh and Tracy Stuber, both of the Getty Research Institute, the workshop is organized into two sections. 

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PN Writing Group
Stephanie Burchett Stephanie Burchett

PN Writing Group

Don’t forget, Photography Network Writing Group offers a twice-monthly meeting place for members to gather and focus on scholarly projects. We devote the first 10 minutes of each meeting to socializing, resource sharing, and goal setting. The remainder of the time consists of two 30-minute quiet, independent writing blocks with a 5-minute break in between.

We meet every other Friday at 9 AM PST / 12 pm EST / 5 PM GMT via Zoom.

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