The panel discussion features photographers and scholars from various backgrounds and fields (Julie Patarin-Jossec, Greg Scott, Jessica Hayes, and Micah McCoy) who blended expertise in contemporary photography, sociology, and ethnography to speak about Julie Patarin-Jossec's new book, released by Immaterial Books.

The Thread of Water is a reflexive wandering in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea. The photographs investigate the colonial politics of the underseas through the eeriness of subaquatic weightlessness and light contrasts: artifacts and bodies are altered, if not disincarnated, in undefined waterscapes that build a narrative of dispossession and perdition. From digital to analog photography, including thermal imagery, the collection curated for this book questions how movement can transcend landscapes to embrace affect. But, more than anything, The Thread of Water is an intimate narrative about trauma and queerness that navigates different forms of storytelling (photographs, drawings, poetry, fieldwork notes) to explore the in-betweens, the coexistent multiplicities, and the pervasiveness of liberatory praxis.

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Immaterial Books: https://www.immaterialbooks.com

Brian O'Neill: https://www.brianfoneill.net

Julie Patarin Jossec: https://juliepatarinjossec.com

The Thread of Water: https://www.immaterialbooks.com/store/p/threadofwater

Greg Scott: https://visualsociology.org/?p=1019

Jessica Hayes: https://www.jessicahaysart.com/about

Micah McCoy: https://micahmccoy.com

Wyoming Toad: https://wyomingtoad.bandcamp.com