Who decides how memory endures, and what role does photography play in shaping collective narratives?

I’m sharing this here because it is the first event in On Seeing & Being Seen, a new talks series created through PLATFORM 2020, the online educational platform I founded, in collaboration with The VII Foundation.

Memory as Resistance: Archives, Inheritance & the Politics of Remembering brings together Max Houghton, Sana Ginwalla and Ziyah Gafic for a conversation on photography, remembrance, inheritance and the ways images can hold, resist and reshape history.

Centred on lived experience, the talk reflects on how memory is constructed, contested and carried through photography and on the importance of voices too often misrepresented or overlooked.

In this talk, I will reflect on how stories begin and how they end, and what lives in the space between. Drawing from key bodies of work across my practice, including my ongoing series on farming and the natural environment, I will explore photography as an act of witnessing, return and belonging. Moving between the personal and the political, the talk considers ideas of home, memory and place as central forces shaping my long-term documentary storytelling.

Ticket booking required.