Talks programme

With a mix of panel discussions, artist talks and laid-back living room conversations, the Talks Programme curated by William A. Ewing offers precious insights into the fascinating lives and careers of leading photography professionals.

All talks will be online and free and will involve some of the biggest personalities in the field as well as emerging photography talents. Click on the links below to register.

 

• 2 September, 5–6 pm BST, Artists Sofia Wilkinson-Steel & Jasmine De Silva in conversation

 

• 3 September, 6.30 pm BST, Close Enough: Robert Capa, special talk with historian, journalist and former Magnum Photos CEO David Kogan, conflict photographer expert Lauren Walsh and photographer Peter van Agtmael celebrating Photo London’s special exhibition of works by the famed war photographer.

 

• 11 September, 6.30 pm BST, FT Weekend presents: Zora J Murff and Tarrah Krajnak in conversation

 

• 12 September, 6.30 pm BST, Constructing Landscapes: in-conversation with artists Beate Gütschow & Dafna Talmor chaired by art historian Olga Smith

 

• 13 September, 3 pm BST, Genius Loci and the Eye of Photography, a panel with artists Ljubodrac Andric and Nikola Olic, curator William A Ewing and RIBA curator Valeria Carullo

 

• 13 September, 8 pm BST, Your Gaze Belongs to Me: Pixy Liao in Conversation with Holly Roussell

 

• 14 September, 8 pm BST, Polaroid: enduring passion, panel on Polaroid photography with Barbara Hitchcock, Barbara Kasten, Christopher Bonanos, David Levinthal, and Photo London Talks Programme curator William A Ewing

 

• 15 September, time TBC, FT Weekend Presents: Ronan McKenzie, ‘Finding Home’

 

• 15 September, 6.30 pm BST, The Image of Africa, artist Shiraz Bayjoo in conversation with writer and curator Ekow Eshun

 

• 16 September, 6.30 pm BST, Seeing beyond the tip of your nose: a dialogue between Nancy Burson, the conceptual artist/photographer, and W.M. Hunt, writer, curator, and teacher

 

• 17 September, 1.30 pm BST, Poulomi Basu: Eco-Feminism. In Conversation with Charlotte Jansen

 

• 17 September, 6.30 pm BST, Photography and Cultural Activism in the UK during the Thatcher era. Photographer Sunil Gupta and editor Chris Boot in conversation

 

• 19 September, 6.30 pm BST, FT Weekend Presents a panel hosted by Zelda Cheatle: The Photograph that Changed my Life, a panel discussion with Joy Gregory, Awoiska van der Molen, Duane Michals and Arthur Tress, chaired by Zelda Cheatle

 

• 20 September, 6.30 pm BST, ‘Hanging the Moon’: artist Liz Nielsen in conversation with W.M. Hunt, writer and teacher 

 

• 21 September, 6.30 pm BST, Artist Lorenzo Vitturi in conversation with photography historian Walter Guadagnini

 

• 22 September, 1 pm BST, What Birds Can Teach Us: the photography of Sanna Kannisto and Leila Jeffreys, moderated by David Rothenberg

 

• 23 September, 1.30 pm BST, Dougie Wallace in conversation with publisher Dewi Lewis

 

• 23 September, 6.30 pm BST, FECIT (‘Fake-It’)– the dynamic relationship between making, preserving, and sharing, a panel discussion with Adam Lowe, Director of Factum Arte and founder of Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation, Autonomous Systems Architect Phil Harvey and Professor Sarah Kenderdine, whose researches are at the forefront of interactive and immersive experiences for galleries, libraries, archives and museums

 

• 24 September, 6.30 pm BST, An intense fascination with photographs. Philippe Garner reflects on his fifty-year career as an auction specialist in conversation with Alistair O’Neill