OCA Photography Social Group: Lucy Soutter
Wed 14 Oct
|Online event
For our next event we are very pleased to welcome London based artist, critic, historian and academic Dr Lucy Soutter. This online event is on Wednesday 14th October at 18:30 BST.


Time & Location
14 Oct 2026, 18:30 – 20:00 BST
Online event
Guests
About the Event
For our next event we are very pleased to welcome London based artist, critic, historian and academic Dr Lucy Soutter. This online event is on Wednesday 14th October at 18:30 BST
In this talk, Lucy Soutter, author of Why Art Photography? will share some of the images and ideas explored in the forthcoming third edition of the book. She will trace recent shifts in the symbiotic relationship between art and fashion photography, illuminate ways that photographers around the world are working across various art forms and platforms, and explore the use of AI as a tool within various branches of photographic practice. What do these changes mean for how we understand the photographic image and its relationship to culture and institutions? How do they affect how photographers consider their work and future careers?
In her biography, Lucy says:
A multi-disciplinary background provides the foundation for my teaching and writing. After concentrating in Visual and Environmental Studies…
