Программа конференции «После (пост)фотографии» 10 (в программе указано везде Ереванское время, GMT+4)
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Конференция этого года проходит на базе, при поддержке и в сотрудничестве с Ереванским центром международного образования.
After Post-Photography 10
International Conference on Photography Studies
What Is Photography Becoming?
6-8 November 2025, Yerevan (Armenia) and online
Thursday, November 6
10:00 to 16:15 — APP+ Workshop for Emerging Researchers
think tank for emerging researchers on their ongoing projects; attendance restricted to presenters and respondents
Location: Yerevan Center for International Education
31, 4 Charents Street (entrance from 9th Street)
Chairs: Pavel Sharkov and Olga Davidenko (European University at St Petersburg)
Presenters:
Anna Agapova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow): “The Photographic Assemblages of a Soviet Motorcycle Tourist”
Ina Alice Danila (National University of Arts in Bucharest): “In Search of a Non-intrusive Visual Method to Write About Family Photography and Diaspora”
anastasia karkot*ska (Independent Researcher, Yerevan): “Tatev Guidebook: How Can Ordinary Photographs Deconstruct the Perception of Heritage?”
Ksenia Kuznetsova (European University at St Petersburg): «Researching Pictorialism as an Intermedial Art: Methodological Challenges»
Dennis Stepanov (Concordia University, Montreal): “Soviet Conscript Demobilization Albums”
Respondents: Maria Gourieva, Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur, Suryanandini Narain, Friedrich Tietjen, Erika Wolf
16:30 to 18:30 — Portfolio Review with Local Photographers
photographers’ portfolios viewed by international reviewers
Location: Varpet, 35v Tumanyan Street
Reviewers: Alexandra Dennett, Farrah Karapetian, Daria Panaiotti, Jorge Ribalta, Friedrich Tietjen
Register for portfolio review
18:30 to 19:30 — Presentation of Recent Books by APP Participants
members of the APP community will present their recent publications on photography
Location: Varpet, 35v Tumanyan Street
Friday, November 7
10:00 — 17:30 — conference panels
Location: Ibis Yerevan Center, 5/1 Northern Ave / online
10:00 — 12:00 — Conference Opening: “After Post-Photography 10: Where is Photography Going? “. Maria Gourieva and Friedrich Tietjen (Conference Co-founders)
Panel 1: Archiving Communities. Chair: Maria Gourieva (European University at St Petersburg)
Suryanandini Narain (Jawaharlal Nehru University): “Finding Family, Finding Photos”
Claude Ewert (University of Luxembourg): “Post-Family of Man”
Friedrich Tietjen (Jewish Museum Frankfurt): “Normality, and Other Extraordinary Conditions. Jewish Private Photography till 1950“
12:00 — 13:30 — lunch break
13:30 — 15:30 — Panel 2: Producing the Other. Chair: Olga Davydova (ITMO University, St Petersburg)
Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur (University of Graz):»The International Discovery of ‘National Antiquities.’ Photographing Archaeological Sites in the Transimperial Caucasus»
Donald Weber (Aalto University, Helsinki): “Photography Has Entered the Chat: WhatsApp as Local Photographic Exchange”
Ali Shobeiri (Leiden University): “Virtual Photography”
Olga Annanurova (Independent Scholar): “Exposing the Frame: On Post- and Decolonial Discourses on Photography”
15:30 — 16:00 — coffee break
16:00 — 17:30 — Public Lecture: Svetlana Gorshenina (EUR’ORBEM, CNRS/Sorbonne University), “Between Nostalgias and Nationalisms: Analyzing Discussions on Old Photographs of Russian Turkestan on Facebook, Methodological Challenges and Research Ethics”
(move to Varpet, 35v, Tumanyan Street)
18:30 — 20:00 — Public Program curated by Cultural and Social Narratives Lab (Yerevan): “Complex Spaces and Complex Pasts Through Ordinary Photographs”
Location: Varpet, 35v Tumanyan Street
Speakers: Tigran Amiryan, Arsen Abrahamyan, Pap Ohanyan, Varduhi Balyan
Saturday, November 8
10:00 — 17:30 — conference panels
Location: Ibis Yerevan Center, 5/1 Northern Ave / online
10:00 — 11:35 — Panel 3: Photographic Epistemes. Chair: Annette Vowinckel (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Olga Davidenko (European University at St Petersburg): “The Soviet Slide-Film: Between Cinema and Photography”
Timofey Rakov (Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg): “Visualizing the Future: Photographic Representation of Science in the Late Soviet Union”
Alexandra Dennett (Harvard University): “Photographs under Construction: Producing 10 let Uzbekistana”
11:35 — 12:00 — coffee break
12:00 — 13:35 — Panel 4: Blow up: Bodies and Matters. Chair: Friedrich TIetjen (Jewish Museum Frankfurt)
Sofia Michel (Georg-August Universität Göttingen): “Blow Up, or In Search of Scientific Evidence in 1920s Movement Photography”
Pavel Sharkov (European University at St Petersburg): “The Wretched, the Poor, the Barefoot Saints: Russian Holy Fools’ (Self-)Representation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Olga Davydova (ITMO University, St Petersburg): “Photo Portrait as an Epistemological Tool: The Russians by Nathan Farb (1977)”
13:35 — 15:00 — lunch break
15:00 — 17:00 — Panel 5: Photography and Empire: Colonial Legacies and Decolonial Futures. Chair: Erika Wolf (European University at St Petersburg)
Vigen Galstyan (Curator and art historian, Yerevan):
“The Prosthetics of Ethnography: Panos Terlemezyan’s Photographic Self-fashioning in Turn of the 20th Century Armenian Visual Culture”
Followed by a roundtable discussion with Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur, Svetlana Gorshenina, Olga Annanurova, Farrah Karapetian, and Alexandra Dennett
(move to Varpet, 35v, Tumanyan Street)
18:00 — 19:30 — Public Lecture by Jorge Ribalta (independent curator, photo historian, and artist, Barcelona): “Documentary Against Post-Photography. A Curatorial Experience”
Location: Varpet, 35v Tumanyan Street / online
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Оргкомитет «После (пост)фотографии» в 2025 году: Эрика Вольф, Мария Гурьева, Ольга Давыдова, Фара Карапетян, Дарья Панайотти, Сергей Штырков, Фридрих Тетьен
Организация «ППФ+» (воркшопа для молодых исследователей): Ольга Давиденко, Павел Шарков