Houston Center for Photography is dedicated to uplifting the voices of artists and those who work closely with them in order to help achieve their vision. Here you will find a record of our public programming, lectures, and talks with photographers, writers, and thinkers of the medium. This series was formerly known as Words & Pictures.
Surfaces for Feelings: Online Panel Discussion Moderated by Barbara Levine
Featuring Artists Ka-Man Tse, Alejandro Cartagena, Laurel Nakadate, and Odette England
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Virtual Discussion with Arden Surdam and Kendra Jayne Patrick
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Virtual Opening Reception:
Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph
September 10, 2020; 6:30 – 8 pm CST
Curator and Artist Remarks begin at 6:30 pm CST
Sasha Wolf and Malcolm Daniel in Conversation About PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Dr. Tanisha Ford
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Lecture and Book Signing: Mike Osborne’s Federal Triangle
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Avijit Halder
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Daniel Gordon’s Hue and Saturate
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Possible Selves: A Lecture by Horace Ballard
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Geoff Dyer on The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Lecture and Book Signing: Matthew Genitempo’s Jasper
Thursday, December 6, 2018
New Southern Photography
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Truth, History, and Photography in Morgan Ashcom’s What the Living Carry: A Conversation between Morgan Ashcom and Ashlyn Davis
Thursday, October 18, 2018