photography

We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with Bouchra Khalili that we were unable to include the first time around. We talk about her relationship with photography and the haunting presence of history in it.

In FONS ÀUDIO #59, artist, writer and activist Marcelo Expósito revisits his work in the MACBA Collection Photowritings 2011-2019 (Dedicated to Allan Sekula), a personal, sometimes intimate look at a series of collective experiences of self-determination and resistance. Marcelo talks about demonstrations, mass events and the occupation of public space, but also about micropolitical space and forms of bonding, empathy and solidarity.

In this podcast, Gazan artist Mahmoud Alhaj tells us about visual strategies and counter-strategies to reclaim their right to see. We talk about low-resolution images and human rights, about rubble and displacement architecture, and about how to build tents with whatever is at hand. In contrast, Mahmoud shows us 3D scans, pilots with architectural knowledge, military archives, and other psyops tactics. He also gives us a glimpse of the art scene in the Gaza Strip and the resilience of the Palestinian people. In his work, the past, present, and future collapse, while the perception of time operates differently in the everyday life of the occupation.

Born in apartheid-era Johannesburg to a Jewish family, descended from Holocaust survivors, Adam Broomberg's trajectory spans teenage anti-apartheid activism, years embedded in global conflict zones, and commercial collaborations that later became subjects of critique. Across this arc, his work has evolved into a sustained inquiry into power: his own positionality, the complicities of photography, and its potential to be repurposed as a tool for change. In this conversation, the artist and educator traces his own path through images, complicities, and refusals. He reflects on the toxicity of photography, how he engaged with its reproduction and refusal – through projects with large-format cameras, archival excavations, and counter-surveillance.