The Photo Vault's new episode covers Eidolon's conference on everyday imaging

The Photo Vault’s new episode covers Eidolon’s conference on everyday imaging

The Photo Vault is a newly started podcast series run by the team behind Vernacular Social Club – a journey into Vernacular Photography, archives, collecting and photo books. The host of the podcast is Lukas Birk, founder of Fraglich Publishing, co-founder of the Vernacular Social Club.

Citing the text accompanying the podcast:

"In this episode, we delve into a talk event on Vernacular Photography that took place in November 2023. Our host, Lukas, was one of the speakers and has encapsulated a myriad of ideas, thoughts, and practices surrounding everyday imaging that were presented during the event. The talk was organized by the Eidolon Centre in Budapest, a new institution that concentrates on vernacular, archives, and everyday imagery. They create a fantastic journal that showcases artists and academics actively working in the field. In this episode you will hear ideas by artists and academics such as Joanna Zylinska, Miklós Tamási, Geoffrey Batchen, Joachim Schmid and Annebella Pollen."

The podcast is available on all major platforms, such as Youtube, Spotify and Apple.

We organised our first international talk event last November. We set ourselves on a journey to explore the latest contemporary, historical, aesthetic, and scholarly thoughts on vernacular photography and its peripheries.

You can watch all presentations on Eidolon's Youtube channel & also on Eidolon Journal.
The keynote speech of the event, given by Geoffrey Batchen, is available on this link.
Watch all three presentations of the segment 'Crash course on analogue everyday photography – vernacular photography outside the realm of the digital' here. Also, the event's Hungarian-themed lectures are available on this link. The third segment titled 'Contemporary/digital everyday photography and questions of mass imaging/social photo' is available here

Established in 2023, the Vernacular Social Club is an association dedicated to promoting and disseminating vernacular documents. You can definitely join the club – all the information why you should do it can be found via this link.

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