Please join us for a book talk with Dr. Kimberly Juanita Brown. In this talk, Brown will discuss her new book Mortevivum, winner of the 2024 Photography Network book prize. Since photography's invention, black life has been presented as fraught, short, agonizingly filled with violence, and indifferent to intervention: living death—mortevivum—in a series of still frames that refuse a complex humanity.

In this presentation, Dr Beatriz Pichel and Dr Katherine Rawling will talk about their project “The Ethics of Medical Photography: Past, Present and Future”, a multidisciplinary network supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK. We will introduce the main questions and aims of the network and reflect on early results and challenges we are starting to see after the organisation of the first network activities.

Please join us on December 6 to hear two presentations that utilize interdisciplinary methodologies, combining art historical inquiry with conservation-based data analysis. Bryanna Knotts and Cynthia Yue’s presentation "Spheres of Influence: Material Affinities in the Photographs of Lola Álvarez Bravo, Tina Modotti, and Edward Weston" examines photographs that engaged with Mexico’s communities and contributed to its reimagination of national identity and belonging.

Please join us for a Photography Network with Dr. Alise Tifantale talk that examines photography’s community-building potential in a divided world. In July 1963, Taiwan-based photographer Chin-San Long (Lang Jingshan, 1892–1995) opened his solo exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil, organized by the city’s most well-known photo club Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante

Join us on June 14 to learn the tips and tricks for perfecting your zoom interview. The event will begin with a presentation by Boston University’s Director for PhD Resource Sasha Goldman who specializes in career planning and professional development for PhD students and postdocs. We will then hear from Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, and Peter Wang, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky, to hear about their recent experiences serving on a hiring committee for a museum job and interviewing for an academic track position. The workshop hopes to demystify some of the interview and job application process. Be sure to come with questions!

Join us for a lively conversation on April 12 with curators Karina Corrigan and Stephanie Tung from the Peabody Essex Museum. This program will celebrate their recent exhibition catalog Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China, a 2023 PN Book Prize Awardee.

Please join us on March 5 for a conversation with Casey Riley, Chair of Global Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia). This conversation will center Mia’s recent exhibition In Our Hands, an exhibition and catalogue Riley co-organized/co-edited with fellow Mia curators and a council of primarily Native artists, scholars, and knowledge sharers.

Framing the Field: Photography’s Histories in American Institutions is an archival initiative focused on the institutional formation of the field of photography in the United States from the 1970s through 1990s.

Long regarded as a “middle-brow” art, at the turn of the twentieth century, photography emerged as a well-established and popular contemporary art medium.

Join us for a conversation about photograph conservation with Tatiana Cole, Associate Photograph Conservator for the Harvard Art Museums. This talk will focus on the history and development of photograph conservation, different approaches to preservation, and methods employed by conservators when treating photographic materials from the 19th century.