Lecture Room 309
In this talk the artist and researcher Åsa Johannesson discusses her book Queer Methodology for Photography with writer and podcaster Gem Fletcher.
In this talk, artist and researcher Åsa Johannesson discusses her book Queer Methodology for Photography with writer and podcaster Gem Fletcher. Entangling photographic practice and theory, this book explores questions and proposals around what “queer photography” is. Readers are taken on a journey that is both photographic and queer – moving through pixels and grains, double exposures, 3D sculpture, and Polaroid emulsions. The talk will focus on these artistic strategies and the possibilities of expanding queer vocabulary across photographic practice and writing.
Queer Methodology for Photography (Routledge 2024) is relaunched in paperback format for Photobook 101 and will be available for sale.
Åsa Johannesson is an artist and researcher exploring queer vocabularies through photography
and writing. Her practice foregrounds encounters between camera, sitter, and photographer, opening new possibilities for expressing identity, resistance, and joy. Åsa works closely with London’s LGBTQ+ community and has exhibited internationally since 2006. She has an MA and a PhD from the Royal College of Art and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton.
Gem Fletcher is a writer, consultant and podcaster whose work explores photography, art and contemporary culture and how they shape and inform who we are and how we live. Her work has been published in Foam, Aperture, Dazed, It’s Nice That. Creative Review, 1000 Words and The British Journal of Photography. She has written monograph texts for a range of artists and she also hosts The Messy Truth podcast, a series of candid conversations that unpack the future of visual culture and what it means to be a photographer today.
