Yerevan (Armenia), November 6-8, 2025, Yerevan Center for International Education
In 2025, After Post-Photography marks its 10th year with an in-person gathering in Yerevan, Armenia (6-8 November). After several online editions, we are excited to meet again in person — to share new research, ideas, and stories.For more information about the conference and past editions, visit our website.
As in past years, the first day of the conference is dedicated to APP+, our workshop for emerging researchers in photography studies. This session provides a space for participants to present research in progress and receive in-depth feedback. Each paper is assigned two respondents — one emerging researcher and one participant from the main program — who read the draft texts submitted in advance and open the discussion. The wider group then contributes to the conversation, making the workshop a collective exchange.
Call for Papers – Deadline Extended to September 15
We invite proposals from graduate students, early-career researchers, and others working on photography and related visual culture. Topics may range widely — from x-ray movies, photo-novellas in Brazil, poverty in private photography, new approaches to photo-realism, the use of AI-generated images in elections, smartphone optics, and beyond.
Please submit proposals (up to 1,600 characters, in English) to app@mur.at by September 15. Submissions will be reviewed anonymously; please remove your name from the proposal itself. If your project analyzes visual material, include sample images or links.
Timeline for APP+ participation
Submission deadline: September 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance: September 20, 2025
Full texts due: October 25, 2025
Arrival in Yerevan: November 5, 2025
More about the After Post-Photography Conference Program
This year’s program includes both academic panels and special events. Keynotes will be given by Svetlana Gorshenina (Sorbonne University, historian and art historian ) on historical photographs of Russian Turkestan in recent “memory wars” on Facebook and Jorge Ribalta (Barcelona – independent curator, photo historian, and artist) on “Documentary against Post-Photography. A Curatorial Experience. ” There will also be a roundtable on “Photography and Empire: Colonial Legacies and Decolonial Futures” and a panel “Complex Spaces and Complex Pasts through Ordinary Photographs” curated by the Cultural and Social Narratives Lab (Yerevan).
Practical Information
Yerevan is easy and affordable to reach, with direct flights in early November from cities including Athens, Dortmund, Milan, Paris, Prague, Rome, Vienna, and Warsaw. Affordable accommodation is also widely available at this time of year.
APP+ team: Pavel Sharkov, Olga Davidenko, Ksenia Kuznetsova
APP organizing committee: Olga Davydova, Maria Gourieva, Farrah Karapetian, Daria Panaiotti,
Friedrich Tietjen, Erika Wolf, Sergei Shtyrkov
