Speculation and Collaboration - Webinar with photographer Max Pinckers
Door Redactie rekto:verso, op Fri Sep 20 2024 10:55:00 GMT+0000How can documentary express social concern while at the same time recognize its own shortcomings and blind spots? How can we define a shared sense of realism in a hyper-individual and confusing era of post-truth and fake news, in which there is no longer a consensus about what is real, half-truth, fiction or entertainment?
Photographer Max Pinckers will give a talk in which he speculates about his own practice in relation to the problematics surrounding documentary photography. He approaches documentary as both a critical reflection on photography itself and a way of dealing with reality in an attempt to understand it and communicate about it.
About Max Pinckers:
Max Pinckers (˚Brussels, 1988) grew up in Indonesia, India, Australia and Singapore. In 2007 he returned to his native country Belgium to study photography at the School of Arts/KASK in Ghent, where he attained a BA, MA and PhD in the arts in 2021. His work explores the critical, technological, and ideological structures in and around documentary images. For Pinckers, documentary involves more than the representation of an external reality: it’s a speculative process that approaches reality and truth as plural, malleable notions open to articulation in different ways. His installations and books are exhibited internationally, having received the Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, amongst others. Pinckers is co-founder of the independent publishing imprint Lyre Press and The School of Speculative Documentary. He is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde in Antwerp and Tristan Lund in London.
Practical information
Where? Online. A zoom-link will be provided after registration.
When? Thursday September 26, 13h–14h30 (CEST)
Language: English
Participation in the webinar is free and open to all interested individuals. Register to receive a zoom-link via this form.
This webinar is organized in the context of Come Together, a project funded by the European Union.