Photography is Dead...The Debate

Rhubarb Seminar, 30th July 2009, 1pm

This seminar is one of the keynote events at this year's Rhubarb-Rhubarb International Portfolio Review in Birmingham.

Chairing will be Stephen Mayes, Image Future Forecaster and CEO of VII photo agency. The other panel members will be:
Alison Nordstrom
Jon Levy
MaryAnn Camilleri
John Cross
Brian Griffin

We all know how technologies have changed the way we work today, but what exactly is Photography evolving into? Is it a propagandist tool used beside words in the media? Or merely a form of digital illustration? What are the hidden agendas? Is our consciousness deceived by the imagery we see before us in our everyday lives? Have technologies opened a world up to non-professionals, that now threaten the industry with sub standard images and information, or does it simply make photography more democratic? Does technology allow things to be meddled with too easily, or has technology given us more tools to open our minds to an all new types of art and so therefore create new realities? Is copyright now completely undermined? Has playfulness with imagery enhanced or destroyed truths, beliefs and practices? Is seeing, still believing? Has photography lost its soul?

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