Please join us on April 24 at 12 PM EST as Louise Siddons reflects on her experience working in Laura Gilpin’s archive. She will discuss the way the archive’s origins, location, structure, past use, and modes of access shaped the stories she told in her publication Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon—and her future research.

Please join us on Friday, March 27 at 12 pm to hear from scholar Martha Langford as she explores the use of photography as illustration.

Please join us on Thursday, February 5 at 12 pm to hear from scholar Jamie Jelinski as he explores the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s use of wirephotos. In early 1960, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) sent two police identification photographs and a single fingerprint thousands of kilometers across the country via a wirephoto transmitter—essentially a fax machine—provided by the Canadian Press.

Please join us on December 12 at 1pm to hear from the curators of Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985. This exhibition at the National Gallery of Art is the first show to consider photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Dr. Juanita Solano Roa as she discusses her groundbreaking new book, Negative Originals: Race and Early Photography in Colombia. In this talk, Dr. Roa will share insights into her research journey and the process of transforming her dissertation into a published book.

Join us for a Zoom event designed to demystify the process of applying for grants and artist residencies. Led by Briann Greenfield, Ph.D., this talk will cover key do’s and don’ts of successful applications, what funders are really looking for, and how to position your work effectively.

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