Photography Speaks
PHOTOGRAPHY SPEAKS is an ongoing series of artist’s talks in and around contemporary photography. Approaching the medium in a decidedly anti-essentialist way—as a crossroads where diverse inquires meet in visual form, from art and literature to history and politics, science and spirituality—the series gathers artists from a wide range of positions, modes, and practices.
Since 2016, participating artists have included Conne Thalken, Jill Frank, Nancy Floyd, Abbey Hepner, Vesna Pavlović, Joshua Rashaad McFadden, Nicholas Muellner, elin o’Hara slavick, Sheila Pree Bright, Julia Kouneski, Paul Mueller, Rachel Fein-Smolinsky, John Singletary, Shabtai Pinchevsky, Irina Rozovsky, Tabitha Soren, Anthony Dominiczak, Agnieszka Sosnowska, Donald Camp, Adam Katseff, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Andrea Modica, Janet Delaney, Stephanie Dowda DeMer, and many others.
The series is directed by Jason Francisco, a visual artist working primarily in photography, and in the overlap between photography and writing. Francisco is the author, most recently, of Alive and Destroyed: A Meditation on the Holocaust in Time (Daylight, 2021), and his book Autobiography of an Unknown American is forthcoming from Fall Line Press, with poems by Alexander Nemerov.
PHOTOGRAPHY SPEAKS is free and open to all members of the Emory community, and the public. For further information, please contact Jason Francisco at: jfranc9@emory.edu.
Upcoming Events
Janet Delaney
Monday, October 6 at 7pm, via Zoom
Janet Delaney is a Berkeley-based photographer best known for her South of Market Series.
This event will be exclusively virtual and can be accessed via: https://emory.zoom.us/j/7505037670 
Stephanie Dowda DeMer
Monday, November 3 at 7pm
Emory Visual Arts Building, 700 Peavine Creek Dr. Atlanta GA 30322
Stephanie Dowda DeMer is an Atlanta-based photographer and the art director of Lost in the Letters. She is the 2025-2026 Emory Arts Fellow in Visual Arts.
If you are unable to attend the event on-site, you can join via zoom: https://emory.zoom.us/j/7505037670