OpenLAB 2026 | Visual Trust. A Multi-modal and Experimental Project – Talk by Amanda Bernal Pérez

What makes people from different cultures and societies trust (or distrust) an image? How is the visual fake assessed and debunked in science, religion, AI or documentary photography? What is the relation between image-making and visual trust? Amanda Bernal introduces Visual Trust, an experimental and multimodal research initiative funded by the European Research Council (2021-2027). Drawing mainly on anthropology, the project takes a comparative approach to current regimes of visual authenticity and forgery. Bernal presents the main guidelines and methods of the project through some of its outcomes: films, photo-essays and texts. 

This activity is part of the OpenLAB The Mechanics of Truth festival. 

Info

Date: Friday, November 27, 17pm. 
Place: Aulario in Matadero Madrid. 
Language: Spanish. 
Price: Free, no registration required 

About Amanda Bernal 

Amanda Bernal is a visual anthropologist and PhD researcher within the ERC Visual Trust project at the University of Barcelona. Her work explores how trust and distrust take shape around documentary images, from photographers’ practices to audience reception and research with high-school students. 

www.visualtrust.ub.edu