Named after the pioneer of the photography industry in Belgium, Lieven Gevaert (founder of the Agfa-Gevaert Group), the Centre for Photography aims at studying the art of photography in a broad interdisciplinary and international field.

The main goals of the Centre are:

• the study of photography as an artistic medium at graduate and PhD level (specific attention hereby is paid to the support of practice-led PhD’s in creative photography)
• the organization of conferences, lectures, readings and workshops for various audiences (ranging from the academic public to the wider audience)
• the dissemination of its research and scholarship in order to make it profitable for the whole community (with a strong emphasis on both the organization of exhibits and the development of new approaches and strategies via ICT)
• the creation and development of a specialized documentation centre linked with the Rare Books collection of the University
• the publication, both online and in a specialized book series, of important scholarship in the field (with special interest for a reprint policy of classic material)
• the realization of applied and contract research on specific projects linked to the photographic medium or its relations with other media
• the guest curatorship of exhibitions

The Lieven Gevaert Centre is a joint collaboration between the K.U.Leuven and the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). It is based in the Faculty of Arts and the Central Library of the K.U.Leuven.