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.
Professional Development Workshop: Perfecting the zoom interview
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!
Call for Submissions: PN Awards
Photography Network welcomes submissions for its 2024 annual book prize that honors innovation in photography scholarship, expression, and dissemination. Due June 1st.
From Exhibition to Catalog: Celebrating “Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China”
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.
Photography Network Meet & Greet
After the overwhelming success of our previous Photography Network Meet & Greet event, we are thrilled to announce another one because of popular demand.
“In Our Hands”: A Curatorial Conversation
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.
Photography Network Meet & Greet
We are pleased to invite you to an online meet and greet event on February 6th, 2024, from 12 pm to 1pm EST. This event allows you to connect with other Photography Network members.
“Framing the Field”: A Roundtable Conversation
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.
Photography and the Museum: Processes of and Chances for Institutionalizing the Medium
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.
Congratulations to the 2023 Photography Network Awardees
The Photography Network presents our 2023 project grant and book grant Awardees!
Preservation and Conservation of 19th-Century Photographs
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.
Re-Framing Photographic Geographies: A Roundtable on Researching Image Economies in the Middle East and Africa
This roundtable investigates photography as a technology of modernity—from its earliest moments to the twenty-first century. It examines the medium’s itinerant character, its role in the visualization of cultural identity and diasporic modes of representation in Africa and the Middle East.
Call for Papers: Photography Network Annual CAA Sponsored Session
Call for Papers: Photography Network Annual CAA Sponsored Session Photography in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Call for Papers: Photography’s Frameworks
Photography Network invited proposals across disciplines and a broad range of subjects that reflect the geographic and thematic diversity of the field.
Professional Development Workshop: Crafting Cover Letters
Please join us June 2 for a professional development workshop on Cover Letters. This workshop will offer information on the core components of cover letters for both museum and academic job applications. Leading the workshop will be Leslie Ureña, Associate Curator, Global Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Emily Voelker, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Lamina and A Living Archive: A presentation by artists May Babcock and Lindsey Beal
The Photography Network is excited to host a conversation between research-based artists May Babcock and Lindsey Beal, both located in the Providence area.
Navigating the Archive: Marie Meyerding and Lily Cho in Conversation
Our 2023 event series launches on March 17 at 12pm, EST, with a Zoom presentation: Navigating the Archive: Marie Meyerding and Lily Cho in Conversation.
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.
Photography Network at the 2023 CAA Annual Conference
Check out the array of Photography offerings at the 2023 CAA Annual Conference.
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.