Since 2008, the Developing Room has brought together scholars at Rutgers and from elsewhere whose research and teaching engages with the histories, theories, and practices of photography. The group’s goal is to enhance the scholarship and pedagogy of its participants by charting the ways in which they create, interpret, collect, catalogue, exhibit, and publish photographic images. The Developing Room seeks to contribute to the unfolding debates on photography’s status historically and in contemporary culture by creating an open forum in which no single discipline or practice is assumed to have an exclusive purchase. The group also promotes Rutgers as an important center for coordinated and critical engagement with photography as an art, science, technology, social practice, communications medium, and cultural discourse.
Plans for next year, 2026-27
The Developing Room plans to hold another of its Graduate Student Colloquia, which gathers Ph. D. candidates whose work involves the study of photography and its history or theory.
In the spring, we will also hold an event around the theme of un-showable photographs of atrocity and abuse. The invited conveners will be Annie Cross (Co-Chair of Photography Network), and Matthew Fox-Amato (Assistant Professor, University of Idaho). Both are scholars of photography, slavery and the American Civil War.
We also hope to hold a small book launch by an author whose book comes out during the next academic year.
Organizer
Andres Zervigon, Department of Art History
Please visit our website: developingroom.com
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