What We See When Invited To Look Differently: Critical Reflections On Socially Engaged Photography

This in-conversation text is the result of multiple exchanges around different projects and contexts of practice undertaken by Anthony Luvera over the course of his career. Driven by a desire to explore Socially Engaged Photography (SEP) within an expanded critical framework, Gary Bratchford and Anthony Luvera discuss the logics of neoliberalism; representational responsibility; the use of data as a mode of address in the context of SEP; the politics of the ‘invitation’; and the triangulated partnership between subject, photographer, and audience as productive space for political engagement.