https://www.byforcollective.com/readings daily 0.75 2026-02-25 https://www.byforcollective.com/readings/seasononereading-rl7h2 monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://www.byforcollective.com/readings/seasononeroundtable monthly 0.5 2025-10-06 https://www.byforcollective.com/readings/seasononereading monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://www.byforcollective.com/programs daily 0.75 2026-02-25 https://www.byforcollective.com/programs/7fia6jdb1bd6swco9eeot1o3c8l45c monthly 0.5 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66a27fa428252d3e0ae5f8ba/72d4ddeb-3019-499a-b489-af16b9cd92fa/dr-tiffany-fairey-at-imaging-peace-photo-credit-jack-latimer.xf8d26311.webp Upcoming Programs - Imaging Peace: What might a photography of peace consist of? with Tiffany Fairey - Tiffany Fairey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Her academic research explores creative, community-centred peacebuilding with a focus on visual peace research. Co-founder and former director of the award-winning charity PhotoVoice, Fairey pioneered participatory visual practice and is an established photovoice specialist. She has held a Leverhulme Fellowship and been awarded the Royal Photographic Society’s Hood Medal. Publications include Peace Photography: A Guide and Imaging Peace (forthcoming, 2026). https://www.byforcollective.com/programs/zahid-chaudhary monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66a27fa428252d3e0ae5f8ba/89564a08-5e9e-4c62-ab65-ee55f8b0c2e5/Zahid+C.jpg Upcoming Programs - By/For & Zahid R. Chaudhary - Zahid R. Chaudhary specializes in postcolonial studies, visual culture, and critical theory. His first book, Afterimage of Empire, examines early photography in India to explore colonial perception, truth, and embodiment. His second, Paranoid Publics, analyzes the psychosocial dynamics of conspiracy cultures, anti-democratic movements, and new media. His current project, Impunity: Notes on a Global Tendency, studies juridical, political, and aesthetic dimensions of impunity from the Cold War to today across postcolonial and U.S. contexts. He has published widely on photography, film, psychoanalysis, and visual culture. https://www.byforcollective.com/programs/jeehey-kim monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66a27fa428252d3e0ae5f8ba/cda9184f-f504-46c9-a678-2cee8a6913a7/jeeheykim.jpg Upcoming Programs - War, Movement, and the Camera: Black Lives in Korean and Japanese Photography with Jeehey Kim - Jeehey Kim is a writer, researcher, and curator specializing in the history of visual culture in East Asia. She is an associate professor in the art history program at the University of Arizona. Kim received her doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and later served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. In 2023, she published Photography and Korea, the first comprehensive history of Korean photography in English. She is currently working on two book projects: one on funerary portraiture in East Asia and another on photographic networks within the Japanese empire. https://www.byforcollective.com/programs/z57zhmwpucxi72twa12sxkqvzd52g5 monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66a27fa428252d3e0ae5f8ba/d98bd9f8-a567-4ca8-9503-be0e1ccb46d1/_LR+library+table+1+MG_0599_AHornischer_AmericanAcademy.jpg Upcoming Programs - When Home is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World with Leigh Raiford - Leigh Raiford is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches, researches, curates and writes about Black visuality and world-making. Raiford is the author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle (2011), When Home is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World (forthcoming, 2026) and, co-author with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas and Laura Wexler of Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography (2024). Most recently, Raiford is Series Editor with Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Deborah Willis of Vision and Justice, an imprint of Aperture Books. https://www.byforcollective.com/programs/vindhya-buthpitiya monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66a27fa428252d3e0ae5f8ba/8ccf699d-e0b4-4df1-960f-29e5fb698597/Vindhya-Buthpitiya_high-res.jpg Upcoming Programs - Studio Ilankai: A Tamil Photographic History of Sri Lankan Citizenship with Vindhya Buthpitiya - Vindhya Buthpitiya is an anthropologist working at the intersection of conflict and visual culture. Her research is focused on ethno-nationalism and political violence in Sri Lanka, examining the local and global aftermaths of civil war through the making and moving of images. She is a lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. https://www.byforcollective.com/programs/crossandfoxamato monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66a27fa428252d3e0ae5f8ba/6ca8ea24-06b2-4305-bf80-8bcce441825e/IMG_8878+2-Edit-final.jpeg Upcoming Programs - To Show or Not to Show: Ethics, Censorship, and the Case of the Scourged Back with Anne Cross & Matt Fox-Amato - Anne Strachan Cross is a specialist in nineteenth-century photography and visual culture, with a focus on illustrated newspapers. Her current book project, Mediating Atrocity: Photography, Violence, and the Civil War Press, examines photographs of atrocity and their publication as wood engravings within Harper’s Weekly’s illustrated reporting of the American Civil War. She has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Luce Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Boston Athenaeum and the Massachusetts Historical Society. She currently serves as the Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66a27fa428252d3e0ae5f8ba/07d81d9a-76b1-4fd6-969c-3120230ef564/Fox-Amato_Headshot.jpg Upcoming Programs - To Show or Not to Show: Ethics, Censorship, and the Case of the Scourged Back with Anne Cross & Matt Fox-Amato - Matthew Fox-Amato studies the power of images. He is the author of Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America (Oxford University Press, 2019). Exposing Slavery was the runner-up for the 2021 Shapiro Book Prize of The Huntington Library, a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, and a finalist for the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award. Fox-Amato is Associate Professor of History at the University of Idaho. He received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in History, with a certificate in Visual Studies, at the University of Southern California, after which he held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, he is writing a book about how presidential administrations have used photography. https://www.byforcollective.com/programs/patricia-hayes monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66a27fa428252d3e0ae5f8ba/dac4da2b-4472-43d0-abfe-31364907b718/Hayes2.jpeg Upcoming Programs - Race is in Place: Photography, Land and Climate Change in the Work of the late Santu Mofokeng with Patricia Hayes - Patricia Hayes is National Research Foundation SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. In 2023- 24 she held a FIAS (French Institutes for Advanced Study) fellowship at IEA-Nantes with a project on colonial photographic archives. She is co-editor of several recent volumes, including Ambivalent. Photography and Visibility in African History (2019), a special issue of the journal Kronos 46 (2020) on ‘Other Lives of the Image,’ and also Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World: Perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa (2021). https://www.byforcollective.com/programs/ileana-selejan monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66a27fa428252d3e0ae5f8ba/92da71f7-d33e-4d56-b678-1de66c03d7ed/XN9A1395.jpg Upcoming Programs - Photography, Civic Action, and the Struggle For Justice in Latin America with Ileana Selejan - Dr. Ileana L. Selejan is Lecturer in Art History, Culture and Society at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. A member of the PhotoDemos research collective, she has held curatorial, research and teaching positions at institutions including the Department of Anthropology at University College London, the Decolonising Arts Institute at UAL, Central Saint Martins, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts and the Parsons School of Design. Her co-edited volume, with PhotoDemos, "Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination" was recently published by Duke University Press. https://www.byforcollective.com/programs/darren-newbury monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66a27fa428252d3e0ae5f8ba/b5701f7e-1bb2-47c6-827e-8f7e6b7bf613/albumtemp.jpg Upcoming Programs - Civil Rights Struggle as “Democracy in Action” in U.S. Information Agency Photography with Darren Newbury - Darren Newbury is Professor of Photographic History at the University of Brighton. He is the author of Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa (2009), People Apart: 1950s Cape Town Revisited. Photographs by Bryan Heseltine (2013) and Cold War Photographic Diplomacy: The US Information Agency and Africa (2024); and co-editor of The African Photographic Archive: Research and Curatorial Strategies (2015) and Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges (2021). In 2020 he received the Royal Anthropological Institute Photography Committee Award for his contribution to the study of photography and anthropology. https://www.byforcollective.com/programs/thy-phu monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66a27fa428252d3e0ae5f8ba/77285c78-a050-4390-9941-82d4b1522106/Thy_Phu.jpg Upcoming Programs - Photographic Acts of Refugee Citizenship with Thy Phu - Thy Phu is a Distinguished Professor of Race, Diaspora, and Visual Justice at the University of Toronto. She is the author of two books, Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture and Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam. She is also co-editor of three book volumes: Feeling Photography, Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada, and Cold War Camera. https://www.byforcollective.com/programs/brenna-greer monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66a27fa428252d3e0ae5f8ba/d8253fc4-3d11-4b4e-ba9a-7691f0d61381/BrennaWynnGreer_Welcome.jpeg Upcoming Programs - African Americans and the Photographic Seat of Honor with Brenna Wynn Greer - Dr. Brenna Wynn Greer is an Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College. She is a historian of race, gender, and culture in the twentieth-century United States. She explores historical connections between capitalism, social movements, and visual culture and teaches topics in U.S. and African American History. 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She studies the history and theory of photography and race and gender in visual culture. She is an award-winning author of seven books, including most recently Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography (Duke 2020). 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