Thursday, August 28, 2025

CFP: After-Post Photography Workshop for Emerging Researchers (Yerevan, November)

After Post-Photography 10: Workshop for Emerging Researchers

Yerevan (Armenia), 6–8 November 2025, Yerevan Center for International Education

In 2025, After Post-Photography marks its 10th year with an in-person gathering in Yerevan, Armenia

(6–8 November). After several online editions, we are excited to meet again in person — to share

new research, ideas, and stories.For more information about the conference and past editions, visit

our website: https://after-post.photography/

As in past years, the first day of the conference is dedicated to APP+, our workshop for emerging

researchers in photography studies. This session provides a space for participants to present

research in progress and receive in-depth feedback. Each paper is assigned two respondents — one

emerging researcher and one participant from the main program — who read the draft texts

submitted in advance and open the discussion. The wider group then contributes to the conversation,

making the workshop a collective exchange.


Call for Papers – Deadline Extended to September 15

We invite proposals from graduate students, early-career researchers, and others working on

photography and related visual culture. Topics may range widely — from x-ray movies, photo-novellas

in Brazil, poverty in private photography, new approaches to photo-realism, the use of AI-generated

images in elections, smartphone optics, and beyond

Please submit proposals (up to 1,600 characters, in English) to app@mur.at by 15 September.

Submissions will be reviewed anonymously; please remove your name from the proposal itself. If

your project analyzes visual material, include sample images or links.

Timeline for APP+ participation

Submission deadline: 15 September 2025

Notification of acceptance: 20 September 2025

Full texts due: 25 October 2025

Arrival in Yerevan: 5 November 2025


More about the After Post-Photography Conference Program

This year’s program includes both academic panels and special events. Keynotes will be given by

Svetlana Gorshenina (Sorbonne University, historian and art historian ) on historical photographs of

Russian Turkestan in recent “memory wars” on Facebook and Jorge Ribalta (Barcelona -

independent curator, photo historian, and artist) on “Documentary against Post-Photography. A

Curatorial Experience.” There will also be a roundtable on “Photography and Empire: Colonial

Legacies and Decolonial Futures” and a panel “Complex Spaces and Complex Pasts through

Ordinary Photographs” curated by the Cultural and Social Narratives Lab (Yerevan).


Practical Information

Yerevan is easy and affordable to reach, with direct flights in early November from cities including

Athens, Dortmund, Milan, Paris, Prague, Rome, Vienna, and Warsaw. Affordable accommodation is

also widely available at this time of year.

APP+ team: Pavel Sharkov, Olga Davidenko, Ksenia Kuznetsova

APP organizing committee: Olga Davydova, Maria Gourieva, Farrah Karapetian, Daria Panaiotti,

Friedrich Tietjen, Erika Wolf

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