Submitted proposals for presentations should address, but are not limited to one or more of the following:

Vernacular, Snapshot and Everyday Photography

• The nature of everyday photography: producing, collecting, displaying, categorizing and distributing the everyday image

• The ephemeral nature of everyday photography

• Found vernacular photography: issues of privacy and ownership

• The Digital Archive: a new materiality

• Personal photo album vs a shared public database

• Redefining the family album

• The digital rebirth of the surveillance society

Traces of Memory & Identity

• Everyday image: memory, place and everyday life

• The indexical nature of everyday digital photography

• Digital memory: a fluid strand of memory

• Sharing photographs online: constructing family and private life

• Empowering through vernacular photography

• Producing and consuming photographic images

The Effect of Photo-Sharing Applications & Social Networks

• From Polaroid to Instagram

• The Selfie phenomenon

• Digital Photographic collections and communities: formulating, participating and social tagging

• Collaborative photographic practices and experiences

• Everyday photographic production and photo-sharing as a social process

• Photo Diary/Weblog/Photostreams as narratives

• Politics, revolutions and propaganda of photo-sharing

Art and Everyday Photography

• The everyday/snapshot aesthetic in art photography

• Artists’ use of everyday photography – found or (re)created

• Issues of appropriation and assimilation

• The personal and collective in everyday photography

• Curating the vernacular

• Simulating and performing the vernacular