Photography as a Collective Practice: The Case of the All–Japan Students’ Photo Association, Paris Photo, 16 November 2025

As part of the Paris Photo 2025 conversations programme, I hosted a talk on photography as a collective practice through the case of the All Japan Students’ Photo Association (AJSPA) and their “group photographic action” on Hiroshima. The conversation placed the AJSPA’s activities in a global and historical context, exploring how photography can become a collective act and highlighting questions of authorship and anonymity, the political and the artistic, and narratives and counter-narratives. With Damarice Amao and Julie Jones from the Centre Pompidou and Yasufumi Nakamori (former director of the Asia Society Museum).