On Friday, 5 July 2024, VII Insider, in partnership with PhotoWings, organized a hybrid (in-person and online) event at The VII Foundation’s Alexandra Boulat Campus in Arles, France. Here you can watch the recording of this special event.
Using The VII Foundation exhibition, MONUMENTAL: The Dome of the Rock by Ziyah Gafić and Notre-Dame de Paris by Tomas van Houtryve, as a launch pad, this discussion features presentations on photography’s history and politics of representation in France and Israel/Palestine.
Taking a step back from these places in the present, this panel explores how particular understandings of faith, identity, colonialism, and nationalism have been enabled by visual symbols.
Moderator:
Dr. David Campbell,
Education Director, The VII Foundation
Speakers:
Professor Jonathan Long
Co-director, Centre for Visual Arts and Culture, Durham University
Dr. Sary Zananiri
Cultural practitioner and theorist
Ziyah Gafic
Contributing photographer, The VII Foundation
Tomas van Houtryve
Contributing photographer, The VII Foundation
