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The Lens

The Lens is the FotoFocus editorial platform that brings together a wide range of perspectives and insights to reflect on the ever-changing role that photography and lens-based media play in our world. Featuring news updates and programming highlights, alongside critical essays and in-depth conversations with artists, curators, scholars, and more, The Lens provides a vital space for discussion between members of our local and regional communities with those across the world.

Symposium Keynote Preview: Mitch Epstein and Robert Slifkin Consider Photography as Economy and its Role in Activism

Posted on October 1, 2025

In advance of their FotoFocus Symposium keynote, photographer Mitch Epstein and art historian Robert Slifkin discuss how photography is shaped by economies as well as the paradox between its use… Continue

Material Matters: A Q&A with Lee Ann Daffner and Alison Rossiter

Posted on September 25, 2025

The conversations during the FotoFocus Symposium’s morning session, Material Economics, consider the materials at the heart of photographic practice—silver, platinum, bitumen, paper, and chemicals—and the economic, social, and environmental histories… Continue

The Lens

Symposium Keynote Preview: Mitch Epstein and Robert Slifkin Consider Photography as Economy and its Role in Activism

Material Matters: A Q&A with Lee Ann Daffner and Alison Rossiter

FotoFocus Announces “Call for Entry” for 2026 Biennial: The Long View

FotoFocus Announces Fall 2025 Symposium: Photo-Economics

FotoFocus Announces Theme for 2026 FotoFocus Biennial: The Long View