October 2, 2026

Please join us for the fourth event in the 2026 virtual lecture series of ‘By/For: Photography & Democracy’ on Friday 2nd October 2026 (13.00 Eastern Time / 18.00 British Summer Time).

Dr Jeehey Kim (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Arizona) will deliver her lecture, ‘War, Movement, and the Camera: Black Lives in Korean and Japanese Photography’. Learn more and register here.

We also invite you to explore the rest of this year’s series which includes exciting research from leading thinkers Anne Strachan Cross & Matthew Fox-Amato, Vindhya Buthpitiya, Leigh Raiford, Zahid R. Chaudhary and Tiffany Fairey. Explore season two, view recordings, and register for all events here.

By/For: Photography & Democracy is a collaborative partnership between three photographic historians, Dr. Tom Allbeson, Dr. Colleen O’Reilly, and Helen Trompeteler. Our collective investigates photography’s assumed democratic credentials as an art form and a medium of mass communication. We believe a historical perspective on the complex relationship between photography and democracy is critical to understanding how the medium and related visual technologies can address the social and political issues of our time.