Photography, Power & the Ethics of Representation | SESSION #1

Who gets to Picture, Narrate, Position?

30 September, 2020 | Hosted by M. Neelika Jayawardane & VIAD

Who gets to Picture, Narrate, Position? Some things are born of beauty, others from when your jaw dropped (several times) as you witnessed innumerable practices of exclusion, masquerading as ‘freedom of expression’. Responding to institutional and systemic practices of exclusion, this session looks to the fugitive work through which black and other minoritised artist photographers assert new ways of looking at communities historically (and currently) pictured through white supremacist, colonial lenses.

Panelists:

Sama Raena Alshaibi, Andrew Jackson, Zora J Murff & Aaron Turner & M. Neelika Jayawardane (RA bio)

Important / Media usage:

VIAD is not authorised to grant permission for the presentation or usage of this video (Who gets to picture, narrate, position) for any public and/or pedagogical purposes, outside of the series Photography, Power & the Ethics of Representation. Permission for media use should be requested directly from M. Neelika Jayawardane, who both conceptualised and convened the programme. To request usage of any media connected to Photography, Power & the Ethics of Representation, please complete the form below, for the attention of M. Neelika Jayawardane.