Róza Tekla Szilágyi, director of Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography welcomes and gives a short presentation about the institution

Ben Burbridge, Professor of Visual Culture, University of Sussex, UK – Extracorporeal Images

Hille Koskela, Professor of Geography, University of Turku, Finland – Digital Divas – Empowering Exhibitionism in Surveillance Society

Discussion and audience questions

A digital presentation by Nadia Bozak, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada – Where Did the Sun Go?: Ways of Seeing, Photographing, and Reflecting Upon a Solar Eclipse

Short film directed by Axel Danielson & Maximilien Van Aertryck. Followed by a drinks reception.

This workshop will be run by Cem A, an Artist with a background in anthropology, known for running the art meme page @freeze_magazine

Crit Club is a performance by Cem A. where two teams debate an unrealistic question about art. We are often stuck between the binary of praise and non-engagement in the art sphere where people are increasingly hesitant to inhabit spaces of disagreement.

This workshop is for those with enthusiasm in the vernacular and interested in navigating uncharted waters through roleplay and quick thinking.

A short introduction to the work of Eidolon and the aims of the event

The excessive scale of contemporary everyday imaging and the most common scenarios.

Andrew Fisher, Research Fellow in Photography, FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic – Vernacular photography: A “colossal and labyrinthine phototheque in whose depths stalks the prodigious image of our strangeness.”

Daniel Rubinstein, Writer, philosopher and psychotherapist in private practice – Raw & Unconfined: From Psychic Fragments to Infinite Photos

Discussion and audience questions

Introducing the winners of the Eidolon Grant in 2024

Discussion moderated by Kendal Beynon, PhD researcher at CSNI in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery, with Olga Goriunova, Professor and Director of Research in the Media Arts Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK in conversation with George Oates, Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Flickr Foundation

The Eidolon Grant is an international programme that is presented annually to artists, academics, professionals, researchers, collectors and vernacular photography enthusiasts whose past work and proposed project is centred around the image heritage of everyday photography.

Closing remarks and summing up the lessons learned from Cem A.’s workshop