Conference paper
Photography and Politics and the Politics of Photography
Conference of Photography and Theory, Cyprus
5 December 2014
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The paper Copper Geography: Photography and the politics of representation of the mining industries examines the dynamic relationship between photographic representation and the extractive industries. It utilised the series Antofangasta Plc., Stop Abuses! as point of departure for a series of questions. How can environmental and political struggles arising from natural resource industries be mediated through photographic representation? In the context of the series of images presented on this occasion, how can photography be used to re-articulate the relation between the local and the global, the national and the transnational?
These questions were raised in the context of the 3rd Conference of Photography organised by The International Association and Photography and Theory (IAPT) on the island of Cyprus and centred on the relationship between Photography-Theory. I was part of ‘Post-colonial Perspectives: Photography and the “Global” Economies’ panel.