In concert with Landskrona Foto’s exhibition of Pierre Bourdieu In Algeria: Testimonies of Uprooting, the Department of Sociology at Lund University is arranging a two-day conference on photography and knowledge. Photographs are unusually rich objects of inquiry and media for communication. As photographs capture detail indiscriminately, they always contain far more than the photographer intends.The conference promotes a multidisciplinary perspective on photography as a basis for knowledge, including diverse academic, archival, and artistic approaches to questions of visual veracity, photographic communication and cultural heritage, and the connections between photographic images and social processes.The conference aims to build a strong interdisciplinary international research network around the photographic image, with close ties to partners outside the academy that will enable cutting-edge collaborative research. The conference will feature presentations from 30 participants as well as artist-run workshops and diverse keynotes. It will be the first Nordic conference to bring scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences together with curators, artists, and archivists and intends to promote new and generative perspectives, problem formulations, and collaborative teams.