![]() ![]() He established SPBH in 2010, curating events at prestigious arts institutions such as Tate Modern (Britain), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark), MoMA PS1 (United States), and the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia). 'Histories' invites artists to consider how photography can be used to interrogate and challenge existing history, fact and circumstance, allowing for reimagined or speculative futures.īruno Ceschel is the founder and director of Self Publish, Be Happy (SPBH) and a visiting lecturer at École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) and Cornell University's Image Text MFA program. It creates space for artists interested in the notion of the archive, including photographers working with family albums, vernacular photography and historic or institutional collections. This theme invites broad submissions which evidence the relationship between history and photography from the use of historical processes and their position within contemporary photographic practice, to the documentation of historical events or revisitations of the past. ![]() Photography has since developed into an essential contemporary medium, used to document our history, culture, events and societal change, and more recently, as a form of human and artistic expression. Though formally invented in the 19th century, the philosophy of photography – 'drawing with light' – can be traced to neolithic periods and primitive camera obscura techniques. ![]() Visual communication has been a vital part of society since the invention of cave drawings in the prehistoric period. ![]()
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