Although photography may seem like a universal language, we use its tools toward radically different ends.
Join artists, writers, curators and educators for a discussion on how photography is produced and perceived from international perspectives. Co-inciding with the publication Global Photographies (Routledge, 2026), we'll explore issues including cultural translation, photography’s response to climate change, decolonial practices and the role of photobooks.
Three of the book’s contributors – Sunyoung Kim (South Korea), Svea Josephy (South Africa) and Tanvi Mishra (India) – will discuss their shared and distinct perspectives on global photographies. Each contributor will speak for ten minutes, followed by a discussion moderated by the book’s editors, Lucy Soutter and Duncan Wooldridge.
Who is this for:
Everyone is welcome. Photographers, writers, students and educators may be particularly interested.
Biographies
Svea Josephy
Svea Josephy is Associate Professor of Fine Art (Photography) at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a practising artist who has held a number of solo and group exhibitions. Josephy’s research interests include Southern African Photography, documentary photography, contemporary South African lens-based practice and post-apartheid photography, particularly as it connects to the politics of structures, land, space and the environment.
Sunyoung Kim
Sunyoung Kim is a senior curator at Museum Hanmi (formerly The Museum of Photography, Seoul). She has worked with photo-artists from various nationalities and generations for exhibition projects. She contributed to The Routledge Companion to Photography, Representation and Social Justice (2023) has written regularly for Photo Art magazine since 2022 and is co-editor of the forthcoming book Shine Brightly: Korean Photography since 1957.
Tanvi Mishra
Tanvi Mishra is a curator, photo editor and writer based in New Delhi. She is part of the photo-editorial team of PIX, has been Creative Director of The Caravan, and has contributed as a curator to events including Photo Kathmandu, Delhi Photo Festival, BredaPhoto Biennial, Rencontres D’Arles and Chobi Mela.
Lucy Soutter
Lucy Soutter is an artist and writer based in London and is Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster. Her work focuses on questions of value and meaning in the expanded field of photography and contemporary art. She is the author of Why Art Photography? (2nd ed. 2018), co-editor of Writer Conversations (2023) and has written for publications including 1000 Words, Photoworks and Source.
Duncan Wooldridge
Duncan Wooldridge is an artist and writer and is Reader in Photography at the School of Digital Arts, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. His research explores experimentation, materialities and photography’s future tenses. He is editor of John Hilliard: Not Black and White (2014), the author of To Be Determined: Photography and the Future (2021), and co-editor of Writer Conversations (2023) and Photobook Conversations (2025).
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