APhF:26 – Photography as Relational Practice

Re-enactment as Method: Loops and Spirals Toward the Not-Yet

Photography as Relational Practice returns for its second version as a part of Athens Photo Festival 2026. Conceived as a analysis and apply laboratory, this system explores relation as a mind-set, making, and experiencing lens-based practices.

This 12 months’s theme — Pre-enactment as Method: Loops and Spirals Toward the Not-Yet — takes its level of departure from “pre-enactment”, a time period launched by Oliver Marchart to explain inventive practices that anticipate political occasions not but absolutely skilled. Here, the political is known as inherently conflictual, marked by the convergence of antagonistic positions that simulate conditions earlier than they happen.

In a second that more and more constrains creativeness and forecloses horizons, pre-enactments suggest prefigurative practices that collapse temporal distance inside a constantly mutating house, by partaking with uncertainty and opening towards completely different methodologies and modes of affective resonance. They turn out to be open-ended gestures towards doable futures of entanglement, of rethinking visible practices, and of reconsidering their relation to what’s but to come back.

Led by Belinda Kazeem-Kamínski and Pablo Lerma, along with programme curator, Natasha Christia, this version will make use of the figures of the loop and the spiral to discover how pre-enactment interprets into our ongoing visible practices: the loop as each constraint and repetition, but additionally as persistence and return; the spiral as an open, shifting kind that permits deviation, different paths and restore.

Together, we are going to develop workout routines targeted on intersectionality, deep listening, and collective processes, interrogating the photographic doc as each an embodied and an inherited archive. We will look at our personal regimes of illustration, shifting by questions of proximity, otherness and decoloniality, and towards the mixing of writing and sound within the shaping of a visible work.

Requirements

The laboratory welcomes photographers and visible artists, practitioners, students, and educators working in lens-based tradition with an ongoing undertaking at a mature stage, on the core of that are community-based and socially engaged approaches, archival modes, and embodied performative practices.

While members might deliver present initiatives, the laboratory is just not project-driven; it focuses as a substitute on questions surrounding photographic apply, the medium itself, and its modes of engagement with the world.

Outcomes can be publicly introduced in the course of the pageant.

Language: English.

Learn more and apply

An in depth description of the workshop is on the market on the Athens Photo Festival web site.

Applications needs to be submitted by the web kind by 3 June 2026.