Post-photography

Over the past fifteen years, the term “post-photography” has come to dominate the field of photographic creation. It refers to a radical evolution in our relationship with images, which the first and second digital turning points have only accentuated. But it seems to cover a wide range of realities: appropriationism, the multiplication of images on social networks or, more recently, augmented photography and the algorithmic image. 
Artist Joan Fontcuberta, author of Manifeste pour une post-photographie (Actes Sud, 2023), talks to Christian Joschke to shed light on these aspects of contemporary photography.

In his artistic work, Joan Fontcuberta questions the regimes of truth produced by the image. With his storytelling projects, he denounces the devices of make-believe in history, science, the media, politics and religion. His “documenting” projects include Herbarium, Fauna, Sputnik, Hydropithecae and Miracles & Co.

Solo exhibitions include MoMA (New York, 1988), Musée Cantini (Marseille, 1990), Art Institute (Chicago, 1990), IVAM (Valencia, 1992), MNAC (Barcelona, 1999), Centre de l'Image / Palau de la Virreina (Barcelona, 2008), Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris, 2014), Science Museum (London, 2014), Museu d'Art Contemporani Can Framis, de Barcelona (2021), Museo de la Universidad de Navarra, de Pamplona (2024), Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, de Berlin (2024), among others.
His works are in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; MoMA, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Ottawa; and MACBA, Barcelona.
He has taught at Barcelona's Pompeu Fabra University and Harvard University in Cambridge, and is the author of several books on the history, aesthetics and pedagogy of photography. His two most recent books in France are Manifeste pour une post-photographie (Actes Sud, 2022) and L'œil et l'index. Barthes reset (Actes Sud, 2025).
He was artistic director of the Festival d'Arles (1996) and Mois de la Photo à Montréal (2015).
In 2013, the Hasselblad Foundation in Sweden awarded him the International Photography Award. In 1994, he was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, and in 2020 he was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Paris VIII.

As part of the Photo Extra-Large Chair, supported by the Neuflize OBC Foundation.

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