Conduit Conversations #13 The Language of Photography

Conduit Conversations: The Language of Photography

Conduit Conversations: The Language of Photography brings together three distinguished photographers—Michael Reese, Stephanie Brown, and Bud Smith—for an in-depth conversation on photography as both a documentary tool and a poetic language.

This dialogue examines how photographers use the camera not merely to capture images, but to interpret history, identity, environment, and lived experience. Spanning multiple generations and approaches, the conversation explores how photographic practice balances intention and intuition, technical mastery and emotional resonance.

Through their individual practices, the panelists will reflect on:

• Photography as storytelling, memory, and witness
  
  
• The evolving relationship between subject, photographer, and viewer
  
  
• Abstraction, realism, and conceptual framing within photographic work
  
  
• Ethical responsibility, authorship, and representation
  
  
• The impact of technology, archives, and time on photographic meaning
  
  

Rooted in the Conduit Conversations mission of bridging generations and disciplines, The Language of Photography invites artists, collectors, and the broader community into a thoughtful exchange on how photography continues to shape cultural narratives—and why the medium remains vital in an image-saturated world.