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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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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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Images and indicators: Mixing participatory methods to build inclusive rigour
Action Research, volume 22, issue 2 (2024), pp. 35-154
"Participatory methods seek to counter the extractive nature of mainstream research methods by putting control into the hands of research subjects. But participation itself does not guarantee against extraction. There is a tension between the desire for researcher-control and the prerogative of comm
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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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Decolonising Political Communication in Africa: Reframing Ontologies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 226 pp.
"This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the cre
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Who owns the story? Live financial testing of charity vs participant led storytelling in fundraising
London College of Communication; University of East Anglia (2022), 53 pp.
"This project demonstrates that there is another way of gathering and sharing the stories of people living in poverty around the world. Until now, there has been much positive and enthusiastic discussion amongst INGO communications and fundraising professionals about how to change the way we tell st
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Digitale Bildkulturen: Bildproteste, Screenshots, Hassbilder, Netzfeminismus und Selfies
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2021), 397 pp.
"Als Selfie oder im politischen Prozess, als gleichermaßen fluide wie langlebige Postings, in verstörenden Hassbildern oder als Labor des Feminismus wirken digitale Bilder in je eigenen Kontexten: Menschen inszenieren sich und werden inszeniert, vernetzen und bekämpfen sich, posieren und protesti
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Fotovoz: Reconexión Monkoxi. Un tejido de historias de autonomía, identidad y acción climática por jóvenes Monkoxi
Santa Cruz de la Sierra: Editorial NUR (2021), 118 pp.
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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Shooting Cameras for Peace: Youth, Photography, and the Colombian Armed Conflict = Disparando cámaras para la paz: Juventud, fotografía y el conflicto armado colombiano
Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum Press (2020), 251 pp.
"As a young Fulbright scholar in Bogotá, determined to democratize the photographic gaze and bring new visions and voices to public debate about Colombia's armed conflict, Alexander L. Fattal founded Disparando Cámaras para la Paz (Shooting Cameras for Peace). The project taught photography to you
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Indigenous Agency Through Visual Narratives in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 4, issue 3 (2019), pp. 14-27
"This article focuses on the Wiwa community in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. This community has been reviving its traditional music as part of an effort to reconstruct its social network. Moreover, its members have recently embraced visual arts as a versatile medium in the context of t
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Photography as Dialogue
Photography & Culture, volume 12, issue 3 (2019), pp. 299-305
"About 10 years ago we started sending each other images, back and forth, via email. Each photograph had to respond to the one just received. We have so far exchanged over 260 photographs, sharing snippets of family life, abstraction, travels, loss and humor. When we started, we had no particular pl
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The Practice and Ethics of Participatory Visual Methods for Community Engagement in Public Health and Health Science
Key Guides
Cape Town: Livelihoods Foundation (2019), 116 pp.
"This handbook provides guidelines on the practice and ethics of participatory visual methods (PVM) with emphasis on their use in low and middle income countries (LMIC) for community and public engagement in health and health science. The guidelines are drawn from the hands-on experience of the auth
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Syria on the move - Lawein Al-Azim? Über den Einsatz von Fotografie als Erkenntnis- und Ausdrucksmedium
In: Diaspora: Netzwerke globaler Gemeinschaften
Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing; Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2019), pp. 191-199
"Das mehrstufige Projekt ‚Syria on the Move‘ zielt darauf ab, aus Syrien geflüchteten Jugendlichen mittels Fotografie eine Stimme zu geben, Bewusstsein und Unterstützung für syrische Geflüchtete in den Aufnahmegesellschaften zu mobilisieren sowie gegenseitiges Vertrauen innerhalb der syrisch
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Foto Mídia Ninja: Creative commons e autoria coletiva
Brazilian Journal of Development, volume 5, issue 12 (2019), pp. 29588-29602
"Este artigo propõe uma discussão sobre a autoria coletiva de fotografias do grupo brasileiro Mídia Ninja. Para isso, parte de um diálogo entre alguns movimentos de protesto organizados, especialmente, nos ambientes digitais, passando pela cultura hacker, cultura do compartilhamento e o midialiv
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Subjetividades políticas desde la representación: Fotografía documental del campesinado en Colombia, 1965-1975
Bogotá: Editorial Universidad del Rosario (2019), 211 pp.
"Esta obra explora de manera arqueológica el saber constituido sobre el campesinado en Colombia durante el periodo 1965-1975. Toma como material empírico principal un archivo fotográfico documental para relacionarlo con hemerografía [y las emisiones de Radio Sutatenza] y con las reconstrucciones
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These Photos Were my Life: Understanding the Impact of Participatory Photography Projects
Community Development Journal, volume 53, issue 4 (2018), pp. 618-636
"This article presents research on Los Talleres de Fotografia Social (TAFOS), a pioneering Peruvian community photography project, that demonstrates the enduring long-term impact that community-led participatory photography projects can have on the critical consciousness of participants. Participato
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Sociología de la imagen: Miradas ch'ixi desde la historia andina
Buenos Aires; La Paz: Tinta Limón Ediciones; Plural Editores, 2nd ed. (2018), 350 pp.
