Seeds of Change: Conference and Workshops

A hybrid conference exploring regenerative practices in digital and analogue photography, presented by Photography at the University of Salford, in collaboration with The Sustainable Darkroom. About A hybrid conference exploring regenerative practices in digital and analogue photography, presented by Photography at the University of Salford, in collaboration with The Sustainable Darkroom . This event invites photographers, academics, practitioners and educators to gather and share ideas and approaches to a sustainable future for photography. Through presentations, workshops, discussions and a conference exhibition we gather to create radical new visions for the future of photography. Tickets: https://artcollection.salford.ac.uk/whats-on/seeds-of-change-conference/ Schedule: Thursday 29 October 09:00–09:30 - Registration 09:30–10:15 - Keynote: Alice Cazenave 10:15–10:30 - Coffee 10:30–11:45 - Panel 1: Dr Helen McGhie & Dr Antony Hall (Manchester Metropolitan University) - Entangled Light: Soil, Photography and the Garden as Studio 10:30–11:45 - Panel 1: Tuula Närhinen (University of the Arts Helsinki) - The Heliographic Garden 10:30–11:45 - Panel 1: Tracy Piper-Wright (University of Chester) - Unpicturing the garden: voicing a small wild place 11:45–12:00 - Coffee Break 12:00–13:00 - Panel 2: Deneb Martos Marcos (Escuela Universitaria de Artes Visuales, LAV) & Andrés Pardo Piccone (CuriosoLab, Universidad Católica del Uruguay) - The Seeds of Change? What Flowers Tell Us: A Drift Towards Sustainable Process 12:00–13:00 - Panel 2: Aindreas Scholz (TU Dublin) - The Photograph as Seed Bank: Archiving Ecological Futures in the Anthropocene 12:00–13:00 - Panel 2: Leanne Wiggers, Hilde Barwegen, & Raven Kiss (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague) - A Garden of Shared Learning 13:00–14:00 - Lunch Break 14:00–16:00 - Workshop: Hannah or Edd 14:00–16:00 - Workshop: Eda Emirdağ - The Garden as a Socially Engaged Art Space: Collective Practices of Care and Connection 14:00–16:00 - Workshop: Samuel Ian McCarthy & Lasse Lindqvist - Flower Power Photography 14:00–16:00 - Tour: Curator Exhibition Tour - OFFSHOOT (Salford Museum and Art Gallery) 16:00–17:00 - Break 17:00–20:00 - Exhibition Opening and Book Launch Friday 30 October 09:30–10:15 - Panel Discussion 10:15–10:30 - Coffee 10:30–11:45 - Panel 3: Rosaleigh Harvey-Otway (Independent artist/researcher) - Marshland as Method: Co-creating photography with place, towards a murky, silty reciprocal practice 10:30–11:45 - Panel 3: John Inns - Immersive Afterlives: Collaboration, Auto-Destruction and the Material Agency of Water 10:30–11:45 - Panel 3: Chris Wright (University of Manchester, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology) - Errant Bodies 10:30–11:45 - Panel 4: Georgia Metaxas (Falmouth University) - Mnemosyne Grove 10:30–11:45 - Panel 4: Lāsma Poiša (University of Salford) - Returnings: Photography as a Practice of Re-rooting 10:30–11:45 - Panel 4: Marge Bradshaw - ‘Cruising the collection’: using archives to inform and inspire alternative photography in socially engaged practice 11:45–13:00 - Session A: Dr Liza Dracup (Leeds Trinity University) - Future Flora 11:45–13:00 - Session A: Eileen White - Visualising Decay for Future Thinking 11:45–13:00 - Session A: Aindreas Scholz (TU Dublin) - The Photograph as Seed Bank: Archiving Ecological Futures in the Anthropocene 11:45–13:00 - Session B: Joseph Pugilisi & Andrés Pardo Piccone (CuriosoLab, Universidad Católica del Uruguay) - From the act to the gesture: In conversation with Andrés Pardo Piccone on bodies, elements, and temporalities in the eco-somatic film process 11:45–13:00 - Session B: Alexa Dilworth (Independent Photo Book Editor) - Time Signatures 11:45–13:00 - Session B: Lizzie King (TBC) 13:00–14:00 - Lunch 14:00–16:00 - Workshop: Hannah or Edd 14:00–16:00 - Workshop: Martha Gray - Bioyarn Cyanotype Workshop 14:00–16:00 - Workshop: Bethany Copsey (RE-PEAT Collective) - Toning Cyanotypes with Peaty Water 14:00–16:00 - Tour: Curator Exhibition Tour - OFFSHOOT (Salford Museum and Art Gallery) 16:30–17:00 - Plenary / Closing Read more Toggle Photography Prints Film / Video