What ethical dilemmas do curators face when arranging an exhibition?In particular, which considerations arise when displaying earlyanthropological photography today? Are there images that should not beshown? With reflection on TPG’s The Impossible Science of Being: Dialogues Between Anthropology and Photography (1995), we will examine the ethics of contemporary exhibition practices.
Speakers include: playwright and researcher Raminder Kaur (University of Sussex); anthropologist and art historian Christopher Pinney (University College London); curator and cultural historian Mark Sealy (Autograph ABP); and chaired by Sarah Fine, Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts, King’s College London.
Biographies
Raminder Kaur is professor of Anthropology andCultural Studies in the School of Global Studies at the University ofSussex. Her research has foregrounded visual cultures from a variety ofperspectives. Publications include Atomic Mumbai: Living with the Radiance of a Thousand Suns (2013) Kundankulam: A Story of an Indo-Russian Nuclear Power Plant (2020), and Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism (2003/5). Aside from her academic writing, she writes scripts for theatre. www.sohayavisions.com
Mark Sealy is Director of Autograph ABP, anindependent photography organisation which champions work investigatingissues around cultural identity, race, representation and human rights.He completed a PhD at Durham University, where his research focused onphotography and cultural violence. He has curated several majorexhibitions, and his publications include Different (Phaidon 2001) with Professor Stuart Hall and most recently Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Times (Lawrence & Wishart 2019).
In the lead up to TPG's 50th anniversary in 2021, The Ethics ofPhotography is a series of events bringing together practitioners,curators, academics, and other stakeholders, to discuss the enduringethical issues at the heart of photography. Looking back through aselection of pathbreaking exhibitions from the Gallery’s archive, weexplore in depth the moral issues connected with the images at hand.
A collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery and the Centre for Philosophy and Art at King’s College London.
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