“Delirious Visibility” with Leica Camera USA
Watch on Vimeopresented with Leica Camera USA
Featuring Ruddy Roye and Rebecca Lee Sanchez
Photoville 2021 Talks On-demand recordings are made possible in partnership with PhotoWings
From its onset in popularity, social media has proven to have both an unprecedented power and danger, which have each been heightened in the last few years as we watch misinformation run rampant and communities harness the power of the platform in the name of social justice. It is a fast moving public sphere that has become unwieldy in part because it creates so much instant visibility that we are often unable to keep up. We don’t yet understand how to read visually in the way these platforms demand, and so we all end up attempting to communicate in a language we don’t yet know. This talk will be an introduction into our project, Delirious Visibility, which works under the information deluge as a critique. Using images by Ruddy Roye and words by Rebecca Lee Sanchez, it brings to the fore those conditions and causes for the events we are watching unfold, while teaching viewers how to look upon them with a clearer understanding that bridges the information on the screen and the material reality on the ground, and makes visible the faces from those communities affected by the conversations that inform our politics and policy, as a reminder that the fates of real lives are at stake. Further, we will explain how we are all agents in the production of a history that relies on our image-making and storytelling, and why it is imperative that we understand every move we make as one belonging to a Future Historicity.
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