TalkSeePhotography

Scott Carruth and Valentina Bonizzi will present their individual approaches to working with the politics of representation and the changing role of photography. The event aims to look at how different methodologies in photography practice can address issues of representation. Bonizzi and Carruth's practices cross in that they both have collaborated with the community and individuals in Palestine around issues of self-representation in the conflicted space of a territory policed and occupied by a foreign power.

Carruth will focus on the implications and the strength of the camera. Presenting his collaborative project Moltham: Studio Portraiture from The West Bank, he will discuss the practice of martyr photography as a form of resistance to problematise the victim/terrorist dichotomy and the conception of photography as a medium in crisis.

Bonizzi will present work developed in Italy, Scotland, and Palestine, which explores the changing role of photography in representing concepts of citizenship as well as individual and collective histories. She will pay particular attention to site specific installations in rural Italy and in a Refugee Camp in Palestine.

This event aims to activate a discussion around rights of representation and the possibility of photography to generate politically engaged practice. The discussion will offer an insight for people working with, or thinking about, practice in social spaces.

Valentina Bonizzi is an Italian artist based in Scotland since 2005. She is a AHRC PhD candidate at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (Dundee). Scott Carruth has a BAhons Fine Art Photography from Glasgow School of Art.

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TalkSeePhotography is organised for and by artists working with still imagery. It is a forum for sharing, discussing and looking at photography. The discussions take as a point of departure a presentation made by a photography practitioner or thinker. Following the success of the first event - welcomed and attended by a vocal and knowledgeable crowd of participants– we anticipate the following meetings to be equally thought-provoking and lively. TalkSeePhotogrpahy’s long-term aim is to create a platform for a discussion of national and international photography, and are taking a snapshot of the photography community in Scotland and surrounding area to achieve this.