The Shpilman Institute of Photography launched its inaugural research awards this year with a special call for projects in the “Philosophy and Photography.” Diarmuid Costello has been awarded one of six awards in this category, drawn from 500 applications from 47 countries.

The AHRC project Aesthetics After Photography announces the programme for its forthcoming conference: 

Agency and Automatism: Photography as Art since the 1960s

Tate Modern, London, 10-12 June 2010

The AHRC project Aesthetics After Photography announces a call for papers for its forthcoming conference: 

Agency and Automatism: Photography as Art since the Sixties

Tate Modern, London, 10-12 June 2010

The conference aims to bring art history and philosophical aesthetics into dialogue at the point of their intersection around questions of agency and automatism in the photographic process.

Invited speakers include: Carol Armstrong, Cynthia Freeland, Sherri Irwin, Robin Kelsey, Joel Snyder, Jeff Wall

For details of call for papers (deadline: 1st December 2009) see webpage

'Fixing the Image: Re-thinking the 'Mind-independence' of Photographs'

Dawn M. Phillips

This is published as a Guest article in the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics Vol.6 No.2 (September 2009)

The article is available as open access.

'Photography and Causation: Responding to Scruton's Scepticism'

Dawn M. Phillips

This article is published in the British Journal of Aesthetics Vol.49 Issue 4 (October 2009) 

See links for Abstract and Advance Access