We do ethical things with images. Images are not just representations, but social agents which intervene in the world. Images weave the relationships that we maintain with other people. Images may hurt, betray, or offend. Yet they can also be an offering, a reward, a form of love, esteem, and care. In this talk, I will talk about violence and care in images, not only focusing on how these ethical dispositions have been depicted visually, but rather on how they are necessarily involved in the processes of image-making and image-circulation. Most of the metaphors about the act of making images have been based on a mode of violence and mistrust. And if we changed this paradigm?
Anthropologist and filmmaker, Roger Canals is associate professor at the University of Barcelona. He is currently the PI of the ERC-Consolidator Grant Visual Trust. Reliability, accountability and forgery in scientific, religious and social images (2021-2026). For more information, visit this site: www.visualtrust.ub.edu
HOW TO CITE
Please cite as: Roger Canals. 2024. “Ethical images: on violence, trust and care,“ webinar from Images of Care Collective, AAGE, AgeNet and VANEASA. 28 February, available at: https://youtu.be/LEiTPgUKsiA
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