Broadcast live on Thursday 30 July as part of London College of Communication's Graduate Showcase Public Programme of Events, we invited Mark Sealy, Gary Younge and Carol Tulloch to discuss the Decolonial as a concept and methodology through photography, media and curatorial practice.

The Decolonising Lens is situated against a context of great social, cultural and economic change, and invited speakers to consider key areas of debate for activists, theorists and creative practitioners.

Direct anti-, post- and decolonial struggles are already challenging the Eurocentric control of image and text around the world. However, while indigenous counter-narratives can interrogate the likes of cultural canons and dominant Western ideologies, the approach can also be co-opted by supporters of such established knowledge systems, who use ‘academic reanimation’ to absorb criticism and consume difference as a strategy to maintain visibility and prominence.

Chaired by Associate Dean of Research, Professor Pratap Rughani, and introduced by Brigitte Lardinois, Director of Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC), The Decolonising Lens asks speakers to draw on these themes and discuss what it might mean to work against the grain of such dominant narratives through their respective practices.

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Speakers: 

Mark Sealy
Mark Sealy, is the executive director of the photographic arts charity Autograph ABP as well as a writer and curator. In 2020 he joined the University of Arts London in the role of Principal Research Fellow Decolonising Photography. He is a core member of PARC. In 2019 he was awarded the Outstanding Service to Photography Award by The Royal Photographic Society.

Professor Gary Younge
Gary Younge is an award-winning author and journalist and a professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. Previously a columnist and editor-at-large for the Guardian, he was the US correspondent for 12 years before returning to London in 2015. His writing has also been featured in the Financial Times, GQ, The Nation and the New York Review of Books. He is also an Editorial Board member of the Nation magazine in the US and a Alfred Knobler Fellow for The Type Media Centre in New York.

Professor Carol Tulloch 
Carol Tulloch is a writer, curator and educator specialising in dress and black identities. She is Professor of Dress, Diaspora and Transnationalism at the University of the Arts London and is a member of the Transnational Art, Identity and Nation Research Centre (TrAIN). Tulloch is a Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the V&A Research Institute (VARI) and was the Principal Investigator of the Dress and the African Diaspora Network.

Professor Pratap Rughani
Pratap Rughani is an award-winning documentary filmmaker (30+ credits for BBC TV/Channel 4/British Council), Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Documentary Practices at London College of Communication. He was awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship in 2013, by the Higher Education Academy. Rughani has presented and written widely about the relationship between film, philosophy and the evolution of post-colonial thought.

Brigitte Lardinois 
Brigitte Lardinois is Director of the Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC), University of the Arts London. She is a curator, writer and lecturer specialising in photography, photojournalism and curation.

This event took taking place as part of the London College of Communication Graduate Showcase, offering a first look at the most exciting new names in design, media and screen.

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