What is the work of photography today ? - Gem Fletcher and Elle Pérez

How do images come together and where do they fall apart? What faces, actions and gestures need to be remembered? What feelings need to be saved? This is not a conversation about answers - but rather a mapping of Pérez’s relationship with images and the ways they rupture, repair and begin again.

Gem Fletcher – Elle Pérez
In collaboration with Aperture and The Messy Truth

About the speakers:

Elle Pérez (born in 1989, Bronx) works in photography, collage and film. Solo shows: American Academy of Arts and Letters (2025), MASS MoCA, MoMA PS1. Venice (2022) and Whitney (2019) Biennials. Collections: MoMA, Whitney, Guggenheim. They were awarded the Rome Prize (2023) and teach Photography at Yale.

London-based writer, podcaster and curator Gem Fletcher contributes to publications including Foam, Aperture, Dazed and British Journal of Photography. She hosts The Messy Truth, a podcast exploring the future of visual culture. She is also the founder of Between Two Worlds: Photography’s Unfixed Future, a touring symposium examining photography’s changing role and future.

Elle Pérez, t (2018) of Courtesy of the artist