After Post-Photography 10: What Is Photography Becoming?

The Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE) is pleased to announce the international conference “After Post-Photography 10,” taking place in Yerevan, Armenia, on November 6–8, 2025. This marks YCIE’s first co-sponsored conference.

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Shakespeare’s Hamlet observed that the world is out of joint, but 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?

After Post-Photography is an international conference on visual studies and the history and theory of photography. Since 2015, it has become an important platform for members of the global academic community to share their research, meet colleagues, and initiate joint projects. The event welcomes multidisciplinarity; although each year the conference team offers a specific theme, they also welcome research in the field of photography that is new or weird or explores neglected subjects or dead media. Photographic research today is a field that combines sociology, anthropology, art history, cultural studies, engineering, chemistry, and many other areas of scientific knowledge. The conference welcomes all of these branches of research.

The organizers also value their community. Over the years, the conference has hosted such important researchers as David Bate, Fred Ritchin, Claudia Pfeiffer, Timothy Druckrey, Gil Pasternak, Jennifer Tucker, Andrés Mario Zervigón, and many others. They pay special attention to beginner researchers, for whom a separate session is organized. In 2025, After Post-Photography celebrates its 10th year. After several years of online conferences it moves back into the more material world: this year’s conference will be held offline in Yerevan, Armenia, on November 6–8, 2025. The conference team is very much looking forward to meeting cherished colleagues and friends and new people, learning and sharing about new research and trading ideas and stories.