Contemporary Photography as Collaboration

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This book explores a spectrum of contemporary photographic practices acrossthe fields of image-making, curating, archiving, teaching, community developmentand activism that have envisioned photography as ontologically and ethicallycollaborative. By looking specifically into the contexts where collaborativeprojects are produced and shown, and into the dialogical relation to the peoplethey engage with –in hospitals, in prisons, in working-class neighbourhoods, withindigenous people, refugees, women, persons experiencing homelessness, youngpeople– the contributions from practitioners, scholars, and curators show participatorypractices to create the conditions for building new subjectivities, or makingvisible a multiplicity of identities, thus opening up a new politics of visibility.Therefore, this book specifically addresses the political, counter-cultural dimensionof collaborative projects, but also their subversiveness in relation to dominantpractices within the field of photography: this includes a reinvention of theposition of the photographer –in turns facilitator or project leader– of curatingand exhibition models, of archiving methodologies, of photographic educationand of market practices.