In April 2026, Paul Seawright was invited as a keynote speaker to the FilmEU WIRE Summit that took place at Lusófona University. In this conversation with the head of the Film and Media Arts Department Manuel José Damásio, Paul discussed the artistic research process, the future of photography in the age of AI, and politics of visibility as well as art-making as a political statement.

Paul Seawright is Professor of Photography and Deputy Vice Chancellor at Ulster University in Northern Ireland. His photographic work is held in many museum collections including The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Tate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, International Centre of Photography New York, Arts Councils of Ireland, England and N.Ireland, UK Government Collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. In 2002 he was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum London to undertake a war art commission in Afghanistan and his photographs of battle-sites and minefields have subsequently been exhibited in North America, Canada, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Korea, Japan and China. In 2003 he represented Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art and in 1997 won the Irish Museum of Modern Art/Glen Dimplex Prize.

You can watch the conversation below.