The idea behind this event series is very simple: each speaker selects one photograph, uses it to write roughly 1,000 words reflecting on a key aspect of their research and presents it in the form of a ten-minute talk.

This month's speakers will use their ten-minute talks to offer up fresh perspectives on themes of photography, race and institutional violence. Our first speaker, Jiaqi Kang (University of Oxford), will present their work on the connection between the history of diasporic Chinese labour and state oppression, asking questions around complex issues of anti-blackness, conservatism and how aspiration to whiteness functions as an assimilation strategy & as means for acquiring 'citizenship'. Our second speaker, Michaela Clark (University of Manchester) will use a single image to discuss her work on clinical photography in South Africa, exploring its relation to a representational tradition in medical science that has typically sought to categorise and objectify its (racialised) human subjects.

After the talks, there will be a short Q&A where we will welcome your thoughts and observations.

Please access via Zoom using the following link:

https://us05web.zoom.us/j/84421084293?pwd=bUJBNE9UaXRXTlk1ZFd1OExtazZldz09

Meeting ID: 844 2108 4293

Passcode: 5yY9HH

Please note that both talks will be recorded and posted on our website (https://developingphotoresearch.wordpress.com/), so check those out if you're unable to attend on the day.