From Studio to Screen. Methodologies of Writing Social Sciences with Light.
Invited tutors
- Prof. Chris Pinney, anthropologist, University College London
- Dr Zoé Headley, anthropologist, CESAH (CNRS-EHESS), Paris
- Dr Laurent Gayer, political studies, CERI, CNRS-SciencePo, Paris
- Quratulain Qamar, Adjunct Faculty member at IBA and IVS, Karachi
- Danial Shah, PhD candidate in arts, University of Antwerp
- Shuting Zhao, PhD candidate in anthropology, CCJ, EHESS, Paris
Abstract
This workshop will introduce the participants to the social and technical history of photography, the changing nature of the photographic apparatus and archive in South Asia as well as the use of documentary photography and visual storytelling as alternative means of writing social sciences. The workshop aims to introduce the participants to a critical understanding of the research on still images by delving into specific case studies, encompassing local photo studios, family albums, discarded negatives, and more, across Asia. Together, we will develop a critical gaze on the social and political circumstances of production, consumption, and circulation of photographic images in South Asia; we will question, theoretically and creatively, the changing status of the photographic archive in Social Sciences; we will also explore different formats of visual narration from a diversity of art and/or social science-based practitioner as well as engage, in the immediate surroundings of Karachi, in the interplay between art, photographic documentation, and social sciences. A time will be allotted to collectively discuss each participant’s personal engagement with visual data and social sciences.
W1 schedule
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4th | |
14:30-16:00 | Objectives of the workshop and roundtable through 3 personal photographs |
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5th | |
Arrival and diffusion of photography in Asia |
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9:30-10:30 | Chubby Bankers, Garlanded Corpses and Naked Babes: Trajectories of Photography in South India (1880-1980) Zoé Headley |
10:10-10h45 | Photography in China’s Political Twists and Turns: Elite Pastime, Bourgeois Decadent Hobby and Everyday Life Shuting Zhao |
10:50-11:15 | A History of Photography in Pakistan: Some Pieces of the Puzzle Collective discussion |
11:15-11:30 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK |
Photography and Social Sciences | |
11:30-12:05 | The Trouble With Photography Chris Pinney |
12:05-12:45 | Fieldwork Photography: From Anthropology to Sociology Laurent Gayer |
12:45-13:00 | Taking stock from the first 5 lectures |
13:00-14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
14:00-15:00 | Reading Photography (I). Questioning Azoulay, Becker and Pinney Collective discussion on the three mandatory article |
15:00-15:45 | Reading Photography (II). A Curated Bibliographical Discussion Laurent Gayer & Chris Pinney |
15:45-16:00 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK |
16:00-17:30 | ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION (ALL WORKSHOPS TOGETHER) |
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6th | |
Pakistan under the Lens | |
9:30-10:05 | From Inquiry to Imagery: Transforming Methodology into Visual Narratives and Archives Quratulain Qamar Choudry |
10:10-10:45 | City of Sight: On the Use of Photography in a Long-Term Research Engagement with Karachi Laurent Gayer |
10:45-13:00 | Field visit at Empress Market |
13:00-14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
Pakistan under the Lens | |
14:00-14:35 | Filming Photography. A review Danial Shah |
14:40-15:15 | Photo State: Popular Photography and Visuality in Contemporary India Chris Pinney |
14:40-15:15 | Re-casting Studio Photography, Re-aging the Self. A Curated Slideshow Zoé Headley & al. |
15:45-16:00 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK |
16:00-17:30 | What is Real and What Isn’t? Photos as Desires Danial Shah |
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7th | |
Thinking through Archvies |
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9:30-10:05 | Invisible Collections: Bringing Studio Archives to Light Zoé Headley |
10:10-10:45 | A-Kin Aarati Akkapeddi |
10:45-11:15 | Footnotes to Time and Life: Family Photos as Archives Shuting Zhao |
11:15-11:30 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK |
Preparing Mock Research Project | |
11:30-13:00 | Research and fieldwork |
13:00-14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
14:00-15:45 | Research and fieldwork |
15:45-16:00 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK |
16:00-17:30 | Research and fieldwork |
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8th | |
9:30-11:15 | Research and fieldwork |
11:15-11:30 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK |
11:30-13:00 | Research and fieldwork |
13:00-14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
14:00-16:00 | Plenary group presentation by trainees |
16:00-16:30 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK |
16:30-18:00 | Valedictory Address
Feedback from resource persons, students and trainers Delivery of certificates |
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