Even the most intimate images of our daily lives can represent moments of broad solidarity with others. Finding a voice for our own personal experience can become a tool for creating communities, where a common sense of reality is created and negotiated through images. Photography seen from the perspective of “world building,” might focus more on the generative side of images, from the perspective of “documentary practice” more on the interaction between people and the outside world. Although these perspectives often overlap and intertwine.
Photography is still confronted with questions that have been negotiated since its beginnings in the 19th century, but it must also respond to a wide variety of contemporary challenges including a fundamentally different technological situation marked by digital technology, social media, and other networked platforms, as well as now increasingly the use of A.I. in all creative fields. At the same time, these many new technologies reflect and belong to a new set of philosophical quandaries and political challenges that we as artists, designers and intellectuals must address.
The program addresses students who are not only interested in advancing their photographic skills but are also eager to engage with the philosophical and political issues that shape the future of visual media.
Graduates would be well-prepared to enter fields such as art, academia, journalism, or advocacy, where they can take part in discussions concerning the interplay of technology and visual culture.
