Photography Network!

The Photography Network (PN) is pleased to offer grants to defray the costs of attending the College Art Association (CAA) conference—including expenses related to transportation, housing, and registration fees—for members who are presenting at the event. 

Please join us on Friday, Sept. 18 at 12 pm to hear from Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Leigh Raiford as she explores how Black people use photography to make home in the world.

Acknowledging that the invention of photography developed within a moving world, in the midst of ongoing political projects, is a necessary foundation to understand this medium’s everyday significance. Davis’s approach to photographic history is informed by scholarship that contextualizes photography within socio-political and colonial realities. When she teaches, she wants students to uncover how images work in society and how that is tied to power dynamics that formed centuries before photography was ever invented.

Photography Network welcomes submissions for its 2026 annual book prize that honors innovation in photography scholarship, expression, and dissemination. Due June 15th!

This symposium offers a platform for scholarship that investigates the adaptability of photography and photo history in the face of constraints, be them cultural, governmental, institutional, editorial, individual, or otherwise.