[SIGCIS-Members] Call for Papers: After Post-Photography 10: What is photography becoming? (Yerevan [Armenia], Nov 5-8, 2025)

[Friedrich Tietjen]

   Dear SIGCIS members,
please consider the CfP for the 10th After Post-Photography  
conference, this time held in Yerevan. As in all previous years, the  
call is deliberately open, and we would be delighted to receive  
submissions concerning, say, the history of digital imaging, AI and  
drones, computer tomography etc. Any questions, please let me know.
   Best
   Friedrich

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After Post-Photography 10: What is photography becoming?
Yerevan (Armenia), 5-8 November 2025
Yerevan Center for International Education

Hamlet’s observation that the world is out of joint has been quoted so  
often that it became a truism long ago. Although the phrase thus may  
appear to be hollowed out by overuse, it still holds a morsel worthy  
of reflection: a world out of joint is not a world in chaos. Its  
pieces – people, society, economy, ecology – remain, but the fabric  
holding them together is weak, crumbling, torn.

A similar observation can be made concerning photography. Its pieces –  
image, politics, technology, truth, light, memory, process – are still  
there, but as a concept, photography is swaying: is what we’re so used  
to calling photography still holding together? Or does it come undone  
into a disarray of erratically moving parts, spawning interpretations  
catering to the needs of those in power and those trusting them more  
than their own good judgment and their own eyes? Has photography as a  
concept of producing technical images with the help of electromagnetic  
radiations been flawed from the very beginning, and does this moment  
of crisis then come in handy to rethink what we want from, and for,  
photography – and maybe even what photography wants?

We very much invite you to share your thoughts about these questions  
at our 10th After Post-Photography conference. True to the approach we  
established with our first conference in 2015 however we strongly  
encourage you to consider participation also if you prefer another  
subject over what we have laid out. We welcome papers from all  
perspectives: historical and theoretical, applied and experimental. So  
if you would like to present your research on any subject related to  
photography to an international audience, we’ll be delighted if you’d  
send us your paper – be it on the indexicality of AI generated images,  
early professional studios in Argentina, the exhibition Family of Man  
in the Soviet Union or whatever other subject you are into.

Please submit a short summary of your paper (250-400 words preferably  
as .docx) only in English no later than 25 May to app at mur.at. As we  
are doing a blind review of the submissions, make sure that your paper  
does not include your name. Should you like to get in touch with us  
prior to your submission, please write to app at mur.at.

This year’s conference is co-organized and hosted by the Yerevan  
Center for International Education (https://yerevancenter.org/). There  
is no participation fee for the conference, neither for speakers nor  
for guests. Costs for traveling and accommodation must be covered by  
the participants; partial funding, however, may be available. The  
conference will be held in person, but sessions will also be  
livestreamed for remote audiences. The working language of the  
conference is English. For programs of After Post-Photography  
conferences since 2015, please see www.after-post.photography.

We would also sincerely appreciate it if you would forward the call to  
your own networks and other mailing lists.

Organizing committee After Post-Photography 10: Olga Davydova, Maria  
Gourieva, Farrah Karapetian, Daria Panaiotti, Sergei Shtyrkov,  
Friedrich Tietjen, Erika Wolf

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