You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You

“When after the world premiere of ‘Fontana Mix’ in Milan in 1959 John Cage was asked if he still considered this to be music, he replied: ‘You must not call it music, if this expression hurts you’.” Rainer Riehn, “Noten zu Cage”, in Musik-Konzepte. Sonderband John Cage, ed. Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn (Munich: text + Kritik 1990), 97–106, here 97.

You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You [beta] is a collective initiative that aim to disrupt, provoke, and parasitically infiltrate the traditional photographic discourse and propose alternative approaches that are critical, playful and sincere. It is a work in progress that can take the form of a (subverted) manifesto, a map, a guidebook, group therapy. Initiated by Marco de Mutiis, Katrina Sluis and Jon Uriarte, You Must Not Call It Photography invites for participation, theft and circulation – for the greater good of photography’s future.
Reach out to: help@youmustnotcallit.photography

Level 0: Launch of You Must Not Call It Photography
Level 1: Manifesto for Yet Magazine
Level 2: Photography Manifesto Bot on Twitter
Level 3: So Much Like Photography
Level 4: Who Did It Better In Google Street View World Championship
Level 5: Who Wants to Be a Photographer Quiz Show





Initiators, Core Members and Networked Masterminds
Marco De Mutiis (Digital Curator, Fotomuseum Winterthur)
Katrina Sluis (Adjunct Research Curator, The Photographers’ Gallery)
Jon Uriarte (Artistic Director, DONE @ Fotocolectania)
Chief Designer and Head Tinkerer
Leonardo Angelucci
Platinum Screenshooters
Sam Mercer (Producer, The Photographers’ Gallery)
Doris Gassert (Research Curator, Fotomuseum Winterthur)
Mona Schubert (Assistant Curator, Fotomuseum Winterthur)
Laura Paloma (Digital Intern, Fotomuseum Winterthur)

Acknowledgements: Fotomuseum Winterthur, Foto Colectania, The Photographers’ Gallery