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7 November 2025

Symposium Triennial of Photography - Alliance, Infinity, Love


7 November 2025, 7:00 pm

The International Symposium of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026 acts as a space for exchange and dialogic acts of generosity that signpost different possible ways of being. It explores the role photography and other cultural practices may play in fostering acts of responsibility, love, recognition and justice. By aligning philosophical, performative and critical ideas, it aims to explore, through acts of exchange, the relationship between cultural freedoms and ethical responsibilities.

The event serves as the theoretical foundation for the upcoming Triennial in June 2026, which draws on two distinct sources. The first is the creative alliance between eden ahbez, a celebrated prototype hippie, and Nat King Cole, an African American jazz musician. In 1948, their cross-cultural partnership produced the iconic song Nature Boy’– a poetic, radical expression of ethics and love that resonated globally. The second is the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, whose reflections on human responsibility inform the 9th Triennial’s core ideas.

Envisioned as a conduit across multiple temporalities, the symposium seeks to articulate new global futures – ones that champion civil liberties and cultural freedoms, and where Otherness is not something to be discovered, but a space for recognition, solidarity and alliance.

Through a series of lectures and conversations, notions such as Alliance, Infinity and Love – within photography and other artistic practices – might be enhanced or mobilised as dynamic forces that work towards greater social and political cohesion, to assist in the building or reimagining of new forms of coexistence.

The International Symposium Alliance, Infinity, Love is presented in cooperation with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and the Tanztriennale 2026.

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