[ecrea] Assoc for Photography in HE Conference

Meshworks: APHE Summer Conference 29 June - 1st July, University of 
Plymouth and Plymouth College of Art.

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Keynote Speakers:
Shahidul Alam, Professor Liz Wells,
Michael Mack and Professor David Chandler.
The theme for the 2016 APHE conference is focused around where and how 
photographic higher education is situated, and more broadly its reach 
and purpose in the 21st Century. We wish to examine and question how the 
study of photography fits into the overall journey of students, from 
school to the workplace. Such journeys do not always follow a linear 
chronology – the paths students take, much as they might like them to, 
do not always lead where they expect. The multiple entanglements 
emerging, from hesitant beginnings, detours, cul-de-sacs and apparent 
arrivals, map out individual experiences. These are then overlaid onto 
sometimes-rigid institutional forms and structures. In this context we 
acknowledge the many changes that have taken place in relation to 
employment opportunities in the creative sector during recent years, and 
ask how education can respond.

Keynote Speakers :
Shahidul Alam
Speaking on Friday 1st July

A photographer, writer, curator and activist, Shahidul Alam obtained a 
PhD in chemistry at London University before switching to photography. 
Returning to his hometown Dhaka in 1984, he documented the democratic 
struggle to remove General Ershad. A former president of the Bangladesh 
Photographic Society, Alam set up the award winning Drik agency, 
Bangladesh Photographic Institute, Chobi Mela festival, Majority World 
agency and Pathshala, the South Asian Media Institute, considered one of 
the finest schools of photography in the world.


Liz Wells
Speaking on Thursday 30th June

Liz Wells (born London, lives Devon) writes and lectures on photographic 
practices. Through reference to art historical debates and through 
critical appraisal of key examples of work by photographers working in, 
for example, the USA, in Europe, Scandinavia and Baltic areas, she asks 
what is at stake in landscape photography now. She has curated a number 
of exhibitions on land, landscape, environment, exploring questions of 
representation and also what art can contribute within current debates 
on environmental trauma, climate change and the post-industrial sublime.

Michael Mack and Professor David Chandler in Conversation
Friday 1st July

Michael Mack: Mack was founded in 2011 in London by Michael Mack, who 
previously worked as managing director of Steidl, founding the 
steidlMACK imprint; John Koh, an antiquarian bookseller and 
entrepreneur; and Jean-Michel Dentand, a digital designer. Mack takes 
part in various book fairs, showcasing new titles, participating in 
talks, and organising artist book signings. These annual fairs include 
the NY Art Book Fair, in September; Paris Photo, in November; Rencontres 
d'Arles, in July; Frankfurt Book Fair; Photobook Bristol and The London 
Book Fair.

Professor David Chandler: These ideas were a driving force behind my 
role as Director of Photoworks from 1997 to 2010, where, among other 
things, I initiated a major series of site-based commissions and over 
thirteen years worked closely with a range of very different 
photographers and artists. The ideas have also informed my activities as 
a publisher of photographic books, especially at Photoworks, and I have 
developed a particular interest in the practice and process of book 
making, something underpinned by the firm belief in the book as a 
primary site for the photographic image.

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