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. The  schedule  can be viewed below. The Spring 2026 events will be virtual and can be accessed via zoom here. For further information, please contact Jason Francisco at: jfranc9@emory.edu.