RAI Photographic Salon
The RAI and its Photo Committee will be holding another of its popular Photo Salons on
Monday 11 May 2026 at 5pm, at 50 Fitzroy Street, London
Presentation slots are now filled. You can join the event as an attendee by signing up here.
Join us for short presentations on current work with photographs in anthropology. The programme covers historic and contemporary photographs with speakers including students, academics, researchers, artists, and filmmakers. The presentations will reflect on a wide range of photographic practices ranging from recent fieldwork photography to collaborative research with archival images.
Presentations will be followed by a reception and discussion.
Programme
17:00 – Welcome and Introduction to the RAI Photographic Collection
Anita Herle, co-chair RAI Photo Committee, University of Cambridge
Kirsty Kernohan, Photographic Curator, RAI
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17:10 – Presentations
Image Makers: exploring photographs from Africa. Helen Anderson, The British Museum.
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Baka Bele: Baka Forest – How the Baka in Cameroon record their forest through photographs. Ablegauois Cabane and Hannah M. B. Gibbs, ExCiteS University College London.
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Mobile Archives: Making Images, Making Home in The SIM Project workshops. Liz Hingley, University of Bristol.
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“During our stay in Germany”: Digital Archives and the Shifting Meanings of Ukrainian Slave Labourer Photographs. Elena Liber, University College London.
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Participatory Practices with Family Photo Archives: A Study of Postmemory and Belonging among Second-Generation Georgians from Abkhazia in Moscow. Maria Sakirko, University of Cambridge.
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A Story from a Visual Return: Intricacies of Visual Histories and Epistemologies. Enzo Hamel, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia.
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Settler Colonialism, Field Ethnography and Sources of Anthropological Value. Eleanor Foster, University of Cambridge.
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Shadow Catchers: Redefining photography of the Frontier. Olly De Herrera, University of Oxford.
Qaanaaq, Greenland: More-than-human Encounters. Brinnan Chantal Schill, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.
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The Smile Behind the Papel Picado. Reuben Fakoya-Brooks and Santiago Gracia Garrido, University College London.
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Shifting the gaze from events to in-between moments. Juliette Gautron, University of Cambridge.
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Selective Remembering and Forgetting. Sarah Jabbari.
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Photo Parade: Photography’s ‘Spark of Contingency’ in the World of Augmented Reality. Emily Stevenson, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
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Posing with Chinggis: Photography, Public Space and Visual Memory at Sükhbaatar Square. Zoljargal Enkh-Amgalan, University of Cambridge.
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Ripple Ripple Rippling, Chen Zhan.
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Diorama of a Revolution: Studio Portraiture in 1911 China. Chloe Fujimoto, University of Oxford.
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18:30 – Discussion followed by reception
Chaired by Christopher Pinney, co-chair RAI Photo Committee, UCL
Image Credit: John Fahy, Bathing in the Ganges