Jürgen Habermas (18 June 1929 – 14 March 2026)
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There is no money in writing photography Awkward outcast in Yogyakarta, Indonesia instagram.com/budinddharmawan
Eight hours have passed. Sixteen hours more to go. 24-hour global conference on women of photography. womenofphoto.com
Conference at the V&A Museum, about the Autochrome. I’m joining online from home, seven time zones away. www.vam.ac.uk/event/0B3Aly...
Shifting the Frame – Women’s Photographic Practices (1840–1960) Call for papers (in English) for international conference at Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal, 5–7 March 2026. No registration fee. Deadline for abstracts 4 Oct 2025. More info: womenphot.fba.up.pt/call-for-pap...
I will travel to Jakarta next month to attend Jakarta International Photo Festival #5. After that, I will visit Bandung to see Bandung Photography Triennale #2.
Happy World Photography Day! One of my fav photographs (young Javanese woman in Yogyakarta circa 1885) by one of my fav photographers (Kassian Céphas, Javanese, 1845–1912) on the cover of one of my fav books about photography (a history of early photography in Indonesia), featuring Tommy the cat. ♥
Why people love to compare A.I. with calculator really is just beyond me
Happy birthday, George Eastman (12 Jul 1854 – 14 Mar 1932)
Hi! I’m still around, just not posting often.
Rest in peace, Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025)
I am co-organising and moderating a talk on photography and A.I.—maybe it’s a bit cliché, but it is still necessary to talk about, as the conversation (in local context) so far has been dominated by opinions like “A.I. is killing photography”. A.I. is so much more. Photography is also so much more.
Book presentation - Legacies of colonialism in museum collections: The (un)making of Indonesian Islam in the Netherlands, with author Mirjam Shatanawi; discussants Susie Protschky, Adieyatna Fajri, Theo Frids Hutabarat; moderator Marieke Bloembergen - 15 May 2025 hybrid www.kitlv.nl/event-shatan...
Symposium Future Memories: How Photography Shapes Our Understanding of the World | 14 May 2025 at The Rijksmuseum | A one-day international symposium exploring the impact of photojournalism and documentary photography on our perceptions of the world | Live & online www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...
Symposium Future Memories - Rijksmuseum
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Asian Photography Symposia: Photography and Asian Diasporas in the Americas, 26–27 April 2025 at the Center for Creative Photography (in-person and on Zoom). More information, schedule, and registration arts.arizona.edu/events/photo...
Photography and Asian Diasporas in the Americas - Arizona Arts
The symposium "Photography and Asian Diasporas," organized by School of Art Assistant Professor Jeehey Kim, explores the diverse and creative ways that Asian diasporic communities have mobilized photo...
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My cat came home tonight after being missing for 11 days. I thought I had lost him. But he’s back now. He got very thin, probably hasn’t eaten all these days. He directly asked for food and ate a lot. No wounds. Now I’m afraid to let him out of the house, fearing he’ll be gone for a long time again.
One of my cats went missing on 1 April 2025. I hope he will find his way home, too. ♥
Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 2y agoOur cat came home today! Thin as a rake but whole and purring and hasn't left laps all night. Not sure how she found her way home after four weeks but she did ❤️❤️❤️
Fashion and dress in Autochromes 1907–1930, talk by Cally Blackman on her newly published book
In the age of A.I., photography is now untethered — Fred Ritchin traces the history of manipulated images in an excerpt from his new book, “The Synthetic Eye”, on @vanityfair.com: www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
In the Age of AI, Photography Is Now Untethered
The author traces the history of manipulated images in an excerpt from his new book ‘The Synthetic Eye.’
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I missed a number of webinars because I couldn’t stay up past midnight lately. Internet and video conference platforms have enabled me attend talks held half the world away (network connections have also greatly improved), but time difference is still a huge issue. # notcomplaining # justsaying
Spending Sunday afternoon at home in front of a screen on Zoom for these two back-to-back webinars co-hosted by Parallax Asia and Pictures of the Year Asia
Susan Sontag admitted in 1978 that “On Photography” (1977) is not about photography, while also defended it as not against photography. She claimed that it is about how capitalist industrial society uses photography and its implications.
“Without a clear plan, a photographer’s archive can become a burden rather than a legacy, leaving heirs — spouses, children or executors — to navigate complex decisions about storage, access and preservation.” On the crisis that is facing photographic archives: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
Opinion | Photos are disappearing, one archive at a time
As photographers try to find homes for their work, archives are vanishing, especially in local journalism.
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I’ve been joining this wonderful 24-hour symposium on and off since this morning. Many inspiring presentations and many more to come, as it’s only been 11 hours now. (It’s been raining almost all day where I live anyway, so better stay at home.)
