To celebrate her new book Queer Methodology for Photography, artist and educator Asa Johannesson sits down with Gem Fletcher to discuss new approaches to making, thinking, and writing about queer photography informed by a rich history of Queer image makers. Through the book, Johannesson proposes a new concept of the photographic image that addresses its materiality, in the form of the poetic and the political, in relationship to a generative principle that is named as a queer quality: the photograph’s ability to voice queer concerns beyond its role as representation.

Åsa Johannesson is an artist working across photography, installation, and writing. Her practice concerns the relationship between queerness, representation, and material knowledge production.

Gem Fletcher is a writer and the host of The Messy Truth podcast, a series of candid conversations that unpack the ways in which images shape our world and what it means to be a photographer today. 

The Messy Truth X Peckham 24 is a series of live podcast recordings hosted at this year's festival engaging some of photography’s most dynamic talent in candid conversations about their recent work and wider practice.

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Image © Åsa Johannesson - Turn from The Queering of Photography, Polaroid, 2021