Join Dr Lydia Wong-Plain, Goh Sze Ying, Iola Lenzi & Zulkhairi Zulkiflee in this dialogue that asks what it might mean for Southeast Asian photography to be read less as a record and more as a language of its own, carrying meaning through image, gesture, and story rather than evidence alone.

This dialogue asks what it might mean for Southeast Asian photography to be read less as a record and more as a language of its own, carrying meaning through image, gesture, and story rather than evidence alone. It starts from the region’s own ways of ordering reality, distinct from Western evidentiary logic, asking what photography looks like when it draws on these rather than translating into them.