Contemporary Photography as Collaboration

Mathilde Bertrand is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, France. Her research focuses on the history of independent British photography in the post-war period, particularly on the role of photography collectives, photographic magazines and the community photography movement in fostering a discussion around the politics of representation from the 1970s onwards. She has published in the journals Angles: French Perspectives on the Anglophone World, Imaginaires, and Revue Française de Civilization Britannique, and has a chapter published in The Miners' Strike, 1984-5 (2016).
Karine Chambefort-Bertrand is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Université Paris Est Créteil, France. Her research interests include the cultural, social, and political uses of images in British contemporary society, as well as exhibition and archive policies, and the issues of identity formation, memory and nationalism. She has published on various photographic practices and projects in the UK. She has published in the journals Image and Narrative, Angles: French Perspectives on the Anglophone World, and Revue Française de Civilization Britannique, and has a chapter published in Silence in the visual arts (2016).

1. Introduction - Photography as Collaboration: changing the paradigm on old and new practices in photographic creation and circulation.- Part One. The politics of voice, visibility and identity.- 2. 'A photography of becoming. Re-imagining the promise of participatory photography through the image of young photographers from refugee and diaspora communities in the UK'.- 3. '" Untitled": collaborative creation of a photographic record of a psychiatric home' .- 4. 'Urban change, politics and photography in post-war Britain' .- 5. 'Le ciel par-dessus le toit : Photographing in prison' .- Part Two. Public display and the distribution of collective projects.- 6.  'Commercially Unavailable: The Distribution of Participatory Projects' .- 7.  'The dominance of single-artist exhibitions in French institutions: is the photographic scene running counter to trend ?' .- 8. Reflexive Portfolio.- Part Three. Archiving and curating collective practices.- 9. 'The Jo Spence Memorial Archive' .-10.  "Re-activating the archive: how and for whom?".- 11. Reflexive Portfolio.- Part Four. Common spaces, collective expressions.- 12.  "Mapping local territories through participatory projects .-13. 'Charged with Collaboration'.-14. Reflexive Portfolio: David Kendall.- Part Five. Towards an ethics of collaboration.- 15. 'Participatory creation.- 16.  'Photographic education and the collaboration of resource sharing'.- 17. Reflexive Portfolio.