Sixteenth International Conference on The Image

From Democratic Aesthetics to Digital Culture

We’re excited to attend and share our work at the Sixteenth International Conference on The Image which this year is running the following annual themes and special focii…

2025 Special Focus—From Democratic Aesthetics to Digital Culture: 

  1. The Form of The Image
  2. Image Work
  3. The Image in Society
  4. Creative and Cultural Technologies
  5. Ordinary Practice and Collective Behaviors

Our session is Data Lifeboat: Citizen-Curated Collections and will be on September 12th, 2025.

An Interview with Tosin Adeosun, Founder & Curator of African Style Archive

Meet Tosin Adeosun as she details her experiences as a digital curator, managing care and loss in user-generated archives and shares some of her favorites from the Flickr Commons collection.

Welcome, Anna!

Anna will be joining us on an AHRC PhD placement from University College London to support on Data Lifeboat research.

Greetings, Oreoluwa! Introducing our next 2025 Research Fellow

Oreoluwa Akinyode joins us as our second Research Fellow of 2025, exploring the historic interplay of West African photography and textiles.