2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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Chris Fraser: Madison Emond, Rebecca Cummins
Friday, March 20 - 2:30PM to 4:30PM
Athens
Now two centuries into the photographic project, the fabric of the medium is fraying. Indexical mark-making through light, once the lone standard for all things photographic, now describes only a narrow and uncommon range of analog practices. This photographic uncertainty has inspired a range of makers and thinkers to reexamine tools and processes once overdetermined by an industry that has since turned its attention to digital capture and machine intelligence. This panel gathers independent makers of cameras to explore how photography's primary apparatus might be reconsidered and redeployed. Each foregrounds the camera as an ideological instrument that affects how we relate to our bodies, our communities, and our environments. As William Blake once noted, "As the eye, such the object." Through the modified camera, these makers inhabit, and share, new ways of seeing and being.
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