he International Conference of Photography Studies to be held on 19 – 21 November 2025 at Colégio dos Jesuítas, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal, invites proposals on Publishing Photography: materialities, narratives, assemblages.
An initiative of the Regional Secretariat of Economy, Tourism and Culture, ICNOVA—NOVA Institute of Communication, and the University of Madeira, this edition aims to explore different expressions, strategies, and media for publishing photography.
We invite submissions that address the diverse challenges and dimensions of publishing photography, focusing on works that engage distinct materialities, narratives, and forms of assemblage to resist reified image practices.
Proposals for oral presentations, artistic research workshops, performance presentations, and other forms of expression are welcomed in Portuguese, English, or Spanish, with a duration not exceeding 20 minutes, and a range of topics, including:
- The disseminated printed photographic image (i.e. illustrated press, books, magazines);
- Practices of publishing as strategies of resistance: the photo-book as a poetic medium;
- Non-canonical or hybrid formats: the relationship between printed images and digital environments;
- Established narratives and peripheral visualities;
- Archival orders: publishing as an ‘unarchival’ gesture;
- Art, activism and public histories;
- Collaborative projects: shared authorships;
- Ecological processes in the edition of images;
- Images as data streams: ubiquity and the poetics of montage.
