The Image Complex is an eight-session online lecture series that explores how that trust was built, how it operates, and what it means to inhabit a world where it is coming undone. Moving from the colonial archives of the 19th century to contemporary image cultures, the series traces photography’s evolving role as an instrument of power, a container of memory, a medium of community, and — increasingly — a site of suspicion.

Grounded in photographic histories and practices across South Asia, these sessions bring together scholars, photographers, editors, curators, and archivists to ask: Who have photographs historically served, and who decides what they are permitted to reveal and exclude? How do images circulate through newspapers, family albums, archives, exhibitions, messaging platforms, and social media, accumulating new meanings with every encounter? And what happens when images themselves become unstable communicators — automated, manipulated, remixed, and untethered from their subjects — reshaping our relationship to them?

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