THE first-ever ference of socialist graphy is to be held month.
It aims to draw together the many different practices that socialist photographers working in community and worker photography, photography in education, socialists bourgeois media.
Over the past decade militants have become increasingly portance or pollical struggles over the media and ideology.
Whether it be strikers slandered by Ene mainstream Dress casting, women daily insulted by sexist images themselves. minorities Turned anTo types - all have faced the necessity of carryle their political work into cultural front.
The conference has been called in response to the critical state of photograpny. we now lace one of tne most reactionary media onslaughts in recen memory. hrough the commerciar buousune ane une arl market, photography is thoroughly involved in this campaign.
At the same time interest ano socialist photography faces crises match the times: the funding of comthreat. national contional photovIsUals next are the left press, working in the strucere in aware of the im- WorKers ideology resources we've got. ano The next time ethnic racist stereo DOX -the And Leeds on press, rress rreedom by despite growing left photography. in photography, munity photography is under constant the use or onotocranov in ne left press is still inadequate and convenno competition for the deluge churned OUT In e bourgeoisie; photography in education is still minimal; the distribution of images is solidly monopolised by capital; and all suffer from isolation and lack of We hope that the conference will help to create an understanding and awareness or onotocdony store it te machinery of ideology, and to find ways of using it most effectively in the class T we as onoto•raoners or socialisi Many of culture and are get our 1110000869 noven ano ousmanue me reacuionar ideologies which now oppress us, of working together and fighting back with all the La poster makes you want to burn down the hoarding or ar advert makes you want to kick in the think of where the power lies. now struggle against the bourgeois media.
The weekend conference, to be held in 8-9 November, includes workshops introduced by the campaign Jor 'East End News', the Campaign for Free Speech in Ireland, and a film the Campaign Against Racism in the Menta. nere are mam sessons on curren. photographic practices and the history of Details from: NCSP, 1 Rosslyn House, Rushcrof! Road, London SW2. story did they have to tell? TONS - literally - of lenses lined up at the Iranian embassey siege. But whose up.