Jürgen Habermas (18 June 1929 – 14 March 2026)

Eighteen hours now. Six more hours to go.

Eight hours have passed. Sixteen hours more to go. 24-hour global conference on women of photography. womenofphoto.com

Post a banger that isn’t in English
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RIP Martin Parr

A photo of a computer screen showing a live stream of a conference. Four speakers and a moderator are seen on the stage during the Q&A session.

Conference at the V&A Museum, about the Autochrome. I’m joining online from home, seven time zones away.
www.vam.ac.uk/event/0B3Aly...

Joyeux anniversaire, Roland Barthes

Shifting the Frame – Women’s Photographic Practices (1840–1960)

Call for papers (in English) for international conference at Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal, 5–7 March 2026. No registration fee. Deadline for abstracts 4 Oct 2025.

More info: womenphot.fba.up.pt/call-for-pap...

I will travel to Jakarta next month to attend Jakarta International Photo Festival #5. After that, I will visit Bandung to see Bandung Photography Triennale #2.

Happy World Photography Day!

One of my fav photographs (young Javanese woman in Yogyakarta circa 1885) by one of my fav photographers (Kassian Céphas, Javanese, 1845–1912) on the cover of one of my fav books about photography (a history of early photography in Indonesia), featuring Tommy the cat. ♥

Why people love to compare A.I. with calculator really is just beyond me

Happy birthday, George Eastman
(12 Jul 1854 – 14 Mar 1932)

Hi! I’m still around, just not posting often.

Friday the 13th

Hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells were sabotaged by departing Iraqis during the Gulf War in 1991, turning the desert into a poisoned inferno. Specialist firefighters moved in an attempt to minimise the damage. In this photo by Sebastião Salgado, a well-capping operation is being completed by American specialists.

Rest in peace, Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025)

I am co-organising and moderating a talk on photography and A.I.—maybe it’s a bit cliché, but it is still necessary to talk about, as the conversation (in local context) so far has been dominated by opinions like “A.I. is killing photography”. A.I. is so much more. Photography is also so much more.

Book presentation - Legacies of colonialism in museum collections: The (un)making of Indonesian Islam in the Netherlands, with author Mirjam Shatanawi; discussants Susie Protschky, Adieyatna Fajri, Theo Frids Hutabarat; moderator Marieke Bloembergen - 15 May 2025 hybrid www.kitlv.nl/event-shatan...

Symposium Future Memories - Rijksmuseum

Symposium Future Memories: How Photography Shapes Our Understanding of the World | 14 May 2025 at The Rijksmuseum | A one-day international symposium exploring the impact of photojournalism and documentary photography on our perceptions of the world | Live & online
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...

Photography and Asian Diasporas in the Americas - Arizona Arts The symposium "Photography and Asian Diasporas," organized by School of Art Assistant Professor Jeehey Kim, explores the diverse and creative ways that Asian diasporic communities have mobilized photo...

Asian Photography Symposia: Photography and Asian Diasporas in the Americas, 26–27 April 2025 at the Center for Creative Photography (in-person and on Zoom). More information, schedule, and registration arts.arizona.edu/events/photo...

He just got home. I was very surprised. I thought I had lost him.

My cat came home tonight after being missing for 11 days. I thought I had lost him. But he’s back now. He got very thin, probably hasn’t eaten all these days. He directly asked for food and ate a lot. No wounds. Now I’m afraid to let him out of the house, fearing he’ll be gone for a long time again.

One of my cats went missing on 1 April 2025. I hope he will find his way home, too. ♥

You can’t sell reality to dreamers.

Fashion and dress in Autochromes 1907–1930, talk by Cally Blackman on her newly published book

In the Age of AI, Photography Is Now Untethered The author traces the history of manipulated images in an excerpt from his new book ‘The Synthetic Eye.’

In the age of A.I., photography is now untethered — Fred Ritchin traces the history of manipulated images in an excerpt from his new book, “The Synthetic Eye”, on @vanityfair.com:
www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

I missed a number of webinars because I couldn’t stay up past midnight lately. Internet and video conference platforms have enabled me attend talks held half the world away (network connections have also greatly improved), but time difference is still a huge issue. # notcomplaining # justsaying

Spending Sunday afternoon at home in front of a screen on Zoom for these two back-to-back webinars co-hosted by Parallax Asia and Pictures of the Year Asia

Susan Sontag admitted in 1978 that “On Photography” (1977) is not about photography, while also defended it as not against photography. She claimed that it is about how capitalist industrial society uses photography and its implications.