In the context of networked, algorithmic image practices, SITUATIONS/The Right to Look reflects on the diversity and ambiguity of the various gazes that encounter each other in the photographic image.

The act of seeing is multi-layered: it not only covers visual perception but also includes the processes by which things are made visible and defined and objectified through the gaze of others. In the context of networked, algorithmic image practices, SITUATIONS/The Right to Look reflects on the diversity and ambiguity of the various gazes that encounter each other in the photographic image – in the convergence of technical specifications, interventions by photographers, cultural filters and viewer reception. The increasing globalisation, digitisation and commercialisation of our visual culture have also intensified the potency of the gaze; our modes of looking are interlocked in a complex way, obliging us to address questions of hegemony. Whose interests and what identities and social realities are inscribed in photographic images via the gaze? And who has the right to look (away)?