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In response to widespread demand for more knowledge and insight about contemporary photographies beyond Western centers of production and dissemination, this volume provides a transnational discussion, grounded in dialogue between authors and editors from diverse locations and contexts.
List of contents
Global Photographies and Questions of Cultural Translation 1. How to Use This Book
PART I: Photography in the Anthropocene: Climate Change and Environment 2. The View from the South 3. Decolonising Detritus: (Re)cycles of Extraction and (e-)Waste in the Photographs of Jean Claude Nsabimana 4. The Politics of Water: Social Justice and Photography in the Anthropocene in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 5. Antarctica, Ice, and Photography 6. A Dialogic View from the North
PART II: Decolonial Practices: Speaking Back to the Canon 7. Can We Use Photography Against Photography? An Interview with Rolando Vazquez Melken 8. Decolonial Strategies and the Southasian Imagination: Auto-narrative, Archival Responses and Counter-narratives 9. 'What's Class Got to Do With It?': Decoloniality, Spatiality, Class Struggle in the Photographs of
The Evaton Peoples' Archive 10. Tongue in Cheek: Julie Edel Hardenberg's Visual Language 11. Localising Identity and Understanding Legacy: A New Generation of Hungarian Photographers Search for the 'Locus of Enunciation' 12. Archive
In Situ: Emese Mucsi and Nina Mangalanayagam in conversation with Jennifer Bajorek
PART III: Gender and Queer Theory in Photography Today: Identities and Histories 13. Visual Constellations 14. Expanded Sexual and Gender Identities 15. Visual Disruptions of Global Landscapes 16. Gender in Curation and Exhibition Design 17. Dissident Artists as Protagonists of Visibility Processes 18. Poetic, Critical and Political Resonance: Report from a Roundtable between Selfa A.Chew-Melendez, Flora Dunster, Josefina Goñi Bacugalupi, Sandra Nagel, Alejandra Niedermaier and Jonathan Lalloz
PART IV: New Materialities: Expanded Practices in Contemporary Art Photography 19. An Engine, Not a Camera: Curating Environmental Histories of Photography and Extraction 20. Cut and Paste: Performing History, Materiality, and the Family Album in the Work of Lebohang Kganye 21. Public Arrivals, Private Departure: The Life of Images at Chobi Mela and Photo Kathmandu 22. The Physical Lives of Images, Their Matter, Appearances and Disappearances in the Context of Beirut 23. The Stickiness of Images: Materiality and Attention in Contemporary European Photographies 24. The Archive of Unnamed Workers: Examining the Legacy of Colonial-era Photography in AI 25. Cai Dongdong's Artistic Trajectory: From Conceptual Image Making to Photographic Installation
PART V: Forming Communities: Networks, Platforms and Institutions 26. A Mapping of Photo Communities in Southeast Asia 27. Photography and Trans-Africanism: A Story of Journeys 28. Collection and Educational Dissemination: A Case Study in Bogotá, Colombia 29. Towards A New Arts Ecosystem: PhotoIreland's Strategy in Converging Communities around Photography 30. Towards an Artisanal Intelligence: Reflections from the Academic Periphery in Latin America
PART VI: Global Approaches to Photobooks: From Production to Distribution 31. The Expansion of the Photobook: From Traditional to Post-digital 32. The Photobook as Shape Shifter in the Expanded Realm of Contemporary Photography: Examples from South Korea 33. Transforming Perspectives: A Conversation with Yanyou Yuan Di, Pioneer of Chinese Contemporary Photographic Publishing 34. Toward a Publishing Model to Come 35. Foto Fémina: Shaping the Narrative of Female Photographers from Latin America and the Caribbean 36. Curating Photobooks in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong: A Roundtable
About the author
Lucy Soutter is an artist and writer based in London. She is Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster. Her work focuses on questions of value and meaning in the expanded field of photography and contemporary art. She is the author of Why Art Photography? (2nd ed. 2018), co-editor of Writer Conversations (2023) and writes for publications including 1000 Words, Photoworks, and Source.
Duncan Wooldridge is an artist and writer and is Reader in Photography at the School of Digital Arts, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. His research explores experimentation, materialities and photography’s future tenses. He is the editor of John Hilliard: Not Black and White (2014), the author of To Be Determined: Photography and the Future (2021), and the co-editor of Writer Conversations (2023).
Summary
In response to widespread demand for more knowledge and insight about contemporary photographies beyond Western centers of production and dissemination, this volume provides a transnational discussion, grounded in dialogue between authors and editors from diverse locations and contexts.
