Helen Grace, adjunct professor, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney It is twenty five years since Allan Sekula first presented 'The Traffic in Photographs' at a national photography conference in Australia and the title of this symposium echoes something of the...

Geoffrey Batchen, professor, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington If all history is ultimately about the present, what kind of historical account of photography can speak to our contemporary moment, a moment when this medium has been...