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Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2026), xiii, 292 pp.
"Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World examines reportage as an important aesthetic form of cultural production in the Sinophone world. Originating as a proletarian nonfiction form in interwar Europe, reportage spread around the world, coming into its own in the Sinophone world from the 1930s to t
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Camera in Times of Crisis: Focus on Africa
Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing (2025), 208 pp.
"The presence of cameras, at the forefront of crises, either in the hands of journalists, bystanders or passers-by and sometimes even parties to the crises, has inspired multiple visual notations, commentaries and perspectives. Thus, efforts and resources are channelled towards documenting crises, t
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"During the country's most recent civic-military dictatorship (1976–1983), 30,000 people were disappeared or killed by the state. Over the decades, vernacular and professional photographs have been central to the Argentine struggle for justice. They were used not only to protest the disappearances
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‘Behold, it’s new’: Photojournalism and political communication in Zimbabwe
Journal of Visual Political Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2024), pp. 59-75
"Visuals hold a special place in the field of communication. Politicians, in a move to position themselves or market their activities, use visuals that stand as a testimony to their principles. However, their importance and value in political communication are not highly reflected in academic litera
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Random access memories or clichéd representations? Exploring historical photographs of the troubles on Instagram
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 17 pp.
"Social media provide unprecedented opportunities for the distribution of photographs capturing experiences of conflict. Instagram in particular renders conflict photography searchable, whilst also aggregating the memories of traumatised communities. This paper adds to the nascent literature in this
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Peace is possible: The role of strategic narratives in peacebuilding
Media, War & Conflict, volume 17, issue 1 (2024), pp. 1-20
"In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), scholars and practitioners often cite the lack of shared narrative as a primary challenge to long-term peace. A study of the multi-ethnic, collaborative story-telling work of the Post Conflict Research Centre (PCRC), a Bosnian peacebuilding organization, however, te
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Photography and everyday peacebuilding. Examining the impact of photographing everyday peace in Colombia
Peacebuilding, volume 12, issue 1 (2024), pp. 24-44
"Arts-based peacebuilding has gained attention, but evidence and research of its impact is fragmented and, in particular, the relationship between photography and peace is underexplored. This article examines photovoice as a tool for supporting everyday and community peace in conflict-affected commu
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Visual Framing of Afghan Refugees in Global News Media
Visual Communication Quarterly, volume 31, issue 2 (2024), pp. 83-98
"This study content analyzed visual frames of Afghan refugees during the first six months of the Taliban’s second regime (from August 15, 2021, to February 15, 2022). A total of N = 1,948 images from the Associated Press were quantitatively analyzed for focal point, topic, tone, depiction, gender,
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Restaging Afghanistan: Trapped in the Cycle of Conflict Photographies
Journal of War & Culture Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (2024), pp. 50-69
"Western, especially British interventions in Afghanistan, parallel the long history of photography. This article examines the resulting archive and considers its ongoing influence on the traditions of conflict photography through the concept of the ‘Feedback Loop’ coined by photographer Tim Het
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Fotopädagogik in der sozialen Arbeit
Weinheim; Basel: Beltz Juventa (2024), 267 pp.
"Die Veränderungen im Umgang mit Bildwelten wirken sich auf Selbstkonzepte und Fremdwahrnehmung aus. Die Fotografie spielt dabei heute eine wesentliche Rolle. In der Publikation werden neben Theorien Praxisbeispiele für die Arbeit mit Kindern, Jugendlichen, Erwachsenen, Senioren und spezifischen G
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Seeing and Believing: Religion, Digital Visual Culture, and Social Justice
New York: Columbia University Press (2023), xxix, 218 pp.
"In at least some cases, visual images can challenge normative and normalized ways of grasping the world and prompt their viewers to see differently-and even bring people together. Seeing and Believing marshals religious resources to recast the significance of digital images in the struggle for soci
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Photojournalists’ Social and Economic Rights in Lebanon
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2023), 58 pp.
Fotogeschichten und Geschichtsbilder: Aneignung und Umdeutung historischer Fotografien in Tansania
Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2023), 393 pp.
"In Tansania etablierten sich seit der Unabhängigkeit des Landes neue und eigenständige Praktiken in der Verwendung kolonialer Hinterlassenschaften. Ausgehend von den aktuellen Gebrauchsweisen dreier Fotografien aus dem späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert zeigt Eliane Kurmann, wie Tansanierinn
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Der lange Atem kolonialer Bilder: Visuelle Praktiken von (Ex-)Soldaten und ihren Familien in Südtirol
Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2023), 356 pp.
"Kolonialismus ist Teil vieler europäischer Familiengeschichten: Bis heute bewahren Familien Tagebücher, Militaria oder Beutestücke auf, die VorfahrInnen als koloniale AkteurInnen nach Hause gebracht haben. Sie bezeugen nicht nur familiäre Verstrickungen, sondern haben obendrein über Jahrzehnte
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Fotografie in der kulturellen Kinder- und Jugendbildung
Weinheim; Basel: Beltz Juventa (2023), 281 pp.
"Fotografie ist das Individual- und Massenmedium unserer Zeit. Durch die Digitalisierung hat es für die Bildungsarbeit zusätzliche Relevanz erhalten. Mit dieser Publikation wird Fotopädagogik im Kontext von Kultureller Bildung entlang der Schlüsselbegriffe Subjektorientierung, Teilhabe, wertsch
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Photographing Central Asia: From the Periphery of the Russian Empire to Global Presence
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2022), viii, 431 pp.
"The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific tool that reifies reality, subjectively frames it, and fits it into various political, ideological, commercial, scientific, and artistic contexts. Without reducing the entire argument to the binary of ‘photography and power’, the
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The Use of Imagery in Global Health: An Analysis of Infectious Disease Documents and a Framework to Guide Practice
Lancet Global Health, volume 11 (2022), pp. 155-164
"This work has highlighted the biased approaches in the use of imagery by those who hold power in global health. It is crucial to engage with these issues and to identify how we can work to treat individuals featured in global health imagery equitably, regardless of their circumstances, geography, r
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Indagaciones sobre imagen y representación visual
San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca; Buenos Aires: Teseo (2022), 218 pp.
"En la actualidad el debate sobre la imagen y la cultura visual compromete un amplio abanico de tematizaciones, que van desde la vinculación de la imagen con la magia o el animismo hasta sus cualidades para intervenir en la comunicación textual de las tecnologías digitales. Si bien muchos estudio
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Ethical Traditions in Humanitarian Photography and the Challenges of the Digital Age: Four Conversations with Canadian Communications Officers
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 3, issue 2 (2021), pp. 57-64
"As the production, content, and display of humanitarian images faced the requirements of digital media, humanitarian organizations struggled to keep equitable visual practices. Media specialists reflect on past and current uses of images in four Canadian agencies: the Canadian Red Cross, the Multic
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