Seeds of Change: Conference and Workshops

A hybrid conference exploring regenerative practices in digital and analogue photography, presented by Photography at the University of Salford, in collaboration with The Sustainable Darkroom. This event invites photographers, academics, practitioners and educators to gather and share ideas and approaches to a sustainable future for photography. Through presentations, workshops, discussions and a conference exhibition we gather to create radical new visions for the future of photography. Tickets: https://artcollection.salford.ac.uk/whats-on/seeds-of-change-conference/ Schedule: Thursday 29 October 09:00–09:30 - Registration 09:30–10:15 - Keynote: Alice Cazenave 10:15–10:30 - Coffee 10:30–11:45 - Panel 1: Dr Helen McGhie & Dr Antony Hall (Manchester Metropolitan University) - Entangled Light: Soil, Photography and the Garden as Studio 10:30–11:45 - Panel 1: Tuula Närhinen (University of the Arts Helsinki) - The Heliographic Garden 10:30–11:45 - Panel 1: Tracy Piper-Wright (University of Chester) - Unpicturing the garden: voicing a small wild place 11:45–12:00 - Coffee Break 12:00–13:00 - Panel 2: Deneb Martos Marcos (Escuela Universitaria de Artes Visuales, LAV) & Andrés Pardo Piccone (CuriosoLab, Universidad Católica del Uruguay) - The Seeds of Change? What Flowers Tell Us: A Drift Towards Sustainable Process 12:00–13:00 - Panel 2: Aindreas Scholz (TU Dublin) - The Photograph as Seed Bank: Archiving Ecological Futures in the Anthropocene 12:00–13:00 - Panel 2: Leanne Wiggers, Hilde Barwegen, & Raven Kiss (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague) - A Garden of Shared Learning 13:00–14:00 - Lunch Break 14:00–16:00 - Workshop: Hannah or Edd 14:00–16:00 - Workshop: Eda Emirdağ - The Garden as a Socially Engaged Art Space: Collective Practices of Care and Connection 14:00–16:00 - Workshop: Samuel Ian McCarthy & Lasse Lindqvist - Flower Power Photography 14:00–16:00 - Tour: Curator Exhibition Tour - OFFSHOOT (Salford Museum and Art Gallery) 16:00–17:00 - Break 17:00–20:00 - Exhibition Opening and Book Launch Friday 30 October 09:30–10:15 - Panel Discussion 10:15–10:30 - Coffee 10:30–11:45 - Panel 3: Rosaleigh Harvey-Otway (Independent artist/researcher) - Marshland as Method: Co-creating photography with place, towards a murky, silty reciprocal practice 10:30–11:45 - Panel 3: John Inns - Immersive Afterlives: Collaboration, Auto-Destruction and the Material Agency of Water 10:30–11:45 - Panel 3: Chris Wright (University of Manchester, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology) - Errant Bodies 10:30–11:45 - Panel 4: Georgia Metaxas (Falmouth University) - Mnemosyne Grove 10:30–11:45 - Panel 4: Lāsma Poiša (University of Salford) - Returnings: Photography as a Practice of Re-rooting 10:30–11:45 - Panel 4: Marge Bradshaw - ‘Cruising the collection’: using archives to inform and inspire alternative photography in socially engaged practice 11:45–13:00 - Session A: Dr Liza Dracup (Leeds Trinity University) - Future Flora 11:45–13:00 - Session A: Eileen White - Visualising Decay for Future Thinking 11:45–13:00 - Session A: Aindreas Scholz (TU Dublin) - The Photograph as Seed Bank: Archiving Ecological Futures in the Anthropocene 11:45–13:00 - Session B: Joseph Pugilisi & Andrés Pardo Piccone (CuriosoLab, Universidad Católica del Uruguay) - From the act to the gesture: In conversation with Andrés Pardo Piccone on bodies, elements, and temporalities in the eco-somatic film process 11:45–13:00 - Session B: Alexa Dilworth (Independent Photo Book Editor) - Time Signatures 11:45–13:00 - Session B: Lizzie King (TBC) 13:00–14:00 - Lunch 14:00–16:00 - Workshop: Hannah or Edd 14:00–16:00 - Workshop: Martha Gray - Bioyarn Cyanotype Workshop 14:00–16:00 - Workshop: Bethany Copsey (RE-PEAT Collective) - Toning Cyanotypes with Peaty Water 14:00–16:00 - Tour: Curator Exhibition Tour - OFFSHOOT (Salford Museum and Art Gallery) 16:30–17:00 - Plenary / Closing