Photography: The Key Concepts
By David Bate
The Paradox of Real Photography
By David Bate
Contemporary Photoparadigms
EXIT Magazine, Nr. 97
By David Bate
The Conflicted Image | 3 April 2025
David Bate will present his work in the context of contemporary questions about photography, focusing on how it operates with ideas of conflict.
He will explore the strategies used in art and photography to address conflictual feelings in the attention economy and social media age.
Mesaros Visiting Artist Lecture
Thursday, 3 April 2025 | 11:10 a.m.
Horvitz Hall 203
FORMAT25 Conference: CONFLICTED | 14 March 2025
Speakers include:
David Bate (UK) Keynote Felicity Hammond (UK) Megan Carnrite (UK)
Linda Alterwitz (USA)
Alicia Bruce (UK)
Nataliia Dniprenko (Ukraine)
Philip Harris (UK)
Lesia Maruschak (Canada)
Gemma Marmalade (UK)
Stephen Watson (UK)
Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora (UK)
Les Monaghan (UK)
Geoff Weston (UK)
James Hyman (UK)
Image by Maxim Dondyuk, from OUR RIUKZAK: Maria + Yehor by Lesia A. Maruschack, VYDNO Collective
David Bate: Wartime Follies (Therese Bonney, USA, 1894-1978)
Latin London
In this eleven-episode entitled The Migrant Image, we talked with Professor David Bate – A photographic artist, theorist, and lecturer, based at the University of Westminster in London, UK. Bate is well known and recognised for his contributions to the field, he has published extensively critical writing on the history and theory of photography, and visual culture. His most acclaimed books include Photography: Key Concepts, and Art Photography. David is an editor and co-founder of the theory journal Photographies published by Routledge started in 2008. In 2018 he received the education Award from the Royal Photographic Society.
Photography and History
International Conference | 15 – 17 December 2021
Concerning Photography
Panel 1: Institutions, Infrastructures | 25 November 2021
Across two weeks in November and December, a series of talks, presentations and discussions will showcase new research and practices focusing on the histories of photography in Britain over the last fifty years. The event will also offer a space for thinking about the future of the medium and its display.
Concerning Photography: Photographic Networks in Britain
(c. 1971 to the Present)
Sukanya Baskar’s interview with David Bate as a follow up to the panel “Institutions, Infrastructures”, discussing the importance of the exhibition in fostering photographic interest, evolutions in its conception and the resultant changes in photographic pedagogy.
