This conference examines the significance of darkness, proposing to invert our thinking about photography and remind us of the image’s many entanglements and consequences, buried possibilities and repressed impulses. Drawing together artists, researchers, writers, curators, the conference makes visible the many resonances of darkness as a necessary subject in approaching photography’s elaborate material, industrial, psychical and social roots and interconnections.
Organised by the Photography Programme in the School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, and the Media and Digital Culture Research Group.