A Photographic Lif-444: Special Conversation with Marc Asnin 'Photography In The 21st Century'

A Photographic Lif-444: Special Conversation with Marc Asnin 'Photography In The 21st Century'

From A Photographic Life by The United Nations of Photography

September 1, 2026 · 46 min

About this episode

Grant Scott speaks with Marc Asnin about photography in the 21st century and his project 'Act One: A Century in the Making'.

In this special episode of The Conversation series Grant Scott speaks with award winning photographer Marc Asnin. In an informal conversation they discuss photography in the first twenty-five years of the 21st century based on his project Act One: A Century in the Making. Act One: A Century in the Making Act One: A Century in the Making is a major new photography publication and exhibition examining the first twenty-five years of the 21st century that brings together the work of more than one hundred internationally recognized photographers alongside leading scholars, journalists, historians, writers, and public intellectuals to examine the defining political, cultural, emotional, and social realities of the first twenty-five years of the 21st century. Published by Other/Side Editions, the project positions photography not simply as documentation, but as a form of cultural memory, inquiry, and artistic testimony. Through themes including war and conflict, migration, race in America, political division, technology, identity, and environmental crisis, the publication reconstructs context around images at a moment when photography is increasingly experienced in fragmented and…

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