Zhuang Wubin
Afterword: Writing Photography in Southeast Asia

     This presentation takes the publication of Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey (NUS Press, 2016) as starting point. This publication is by no means a conclusive study of photographic practices in Southeast Asia. However, it proposes that a survey as such is the basis of future comparative work. In this talk, I will share a few projects that I am currently working on, vis-a-vis the writing of photography in Southeast Asia, as a partial response against the critical comments made on this publication. These projects include a mapping and typology of photobooks in Southeast Asia, and the relationship between salon photography, nationalism and Cold War. 

Claude Estèbe
Between Japonism and auto.exoticism

     This presentation takes the publication of Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey (NUS Press, 2016) as starting point. This publication is by no means a conclusive study of photographic practices in Southeast Asia. However, it proposes that a survey as such is the basis of future comparative work. In this talk, I will share a few projects that I am currently working on, vis-a-vis the writing of photography in Southeast Asia, as a partial response against the critical comments made on this publication. These projects include a mapping and typology of photobooks in Southeast Asia, and the relationship between salon photography, nationalism and Cold War.