November 6, 2026

Please join us for the fifth event in the 2026 By/For: Photography & Democracy virtual lecture series, coming up this Friday, November 6, at 1pm ET: “Pop Art’s Other Histories” with Zahid R. Chaudhary. Learn more and register here. 

We also invite you to explore the rest of this year’s series which includes leading thinkers Anne Strachan Cross & Matthew Fox-Amato, Vindhya Buthpitiya, Leigh Raiford, Jeehey Kim, 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.