The Center for Integrative Photographic Studies will promote the study of photography, lens-based and sensing imaging across many disciplines in arts, humanities and sciences at Indiana University from creative photography to conservation to the study of photographic images and practice in our culture. The Center will encourage interdisciplinary approaches to the study of photography broadly conceived by reaching out to artists, scholars and scientists across IU including branch campuses. We will forge links with other similar centers across the US and around the world.