Photography For Whom?
Issue 02
Self-Published
English
Edited by Anthony Luvera
Softcover
55 pages
140 x 200 mm
2021
ISBN 26331144
Issue 02 of Photography For Whom? features two pieces of writing by Paul Carter from the 1970s, an invited contribution by Mathilde Bertrand in which she reflects on Carter’s work alongside a recent project by the artists Eva Sajovic and Rebecca Davies, and an extended introduction by Anthony Luvera titled ‘Who’s Taking Part in What?’.
The first text by Paul Carter is an application for funding written in 1975 on behalf of Blackfriars Settlement to support the ongoing running costs of a community photography project located in the social action centre which supported the communities of Waterloo and North Southwark in London. This text is previously unpublished. The second piece of writing by Carter, titled ‘Photography for the Community’, was first published in issue 13 of Camerawork magazine in 1979.
As an accompaniment to these two historic texts, Mathilde Bertrand critically reflects on the social, political, and cultural contexts in which Carter worked, and on the ways in which the radical ambitions he held for his own photographic practice could be of real use-value to the participants with whom he worked and to the communities in which he activated. In addressing the question, ‘which threads have been picked up and continued by photographers today?’, Bertrand considers issues relevant to contemporary socially engaged photographic practice through the example of People’s Bureau, a project realised by Eva Sajovic and Rebecca Davies between 2014 and 2017 in Elephant and Castle in Southwark, the same London borough in which Carter had worked with local communities over thirty years earlier.
In ‘Who’s Taking Part in What?’ Anthony Luvera considers the dynamics of collaboration, the language used to describe the role a subject or participant plays in the production of work, and the line of enquiry we should bring to socially engaged photography.
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About the Editor
Anthony Luvera is an Australian socially engaged artist, writer, and educator based in London. The long-term collaborative work he creates with individuals and communities has been exhibited widely in galleries, public spaces, and festivals, including the UK House of Commons, Tate Liverpool, The Gallery at Foyles, the British Museum, London Underground’s Art on the Underground, National Portrait Gallery London, Four Corners, Belfast Exposed Photography, Australian Centre for Photography, PhotoIreland, Malmö Fotobiennal, Goa International Photography Festival, Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie, Oslo Negative, and Landskrona Foto Festival. His writing has appeared in a range of publications including Trigger, Photography and Culture, Visual Studies, Photoworks, Source, and Photographies.
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About the Periodical
Photography For Whom? is a new periodical focused on socially-engaged photography. Published biannually, Photography For Whom? seeks to shine light on significant yet overlooked work of the past and to generate debate about contemporary practice, by bringing writing and practice from the community photography movement back into circulation from sources which are out of print, largely unknown or difficult to access. Each issue presents a historic text alongside a newly commissioned piece of writing to foster critical consideration of socially-engaged photography today.
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