Drawn from East, West, Central and Southern Africa, the case studies in this special issue build on several decades of important work on photography in Africa. That work has examined colonial photography and postcards, studio work from colonial times to the present, activist photography, photojournalism, and artists who work with photographic images. It has addressed issues of representation, portraiture, aesthetics, self-fashioning, identities, power and status, modernities and materiality, the roles of photographs in governance and everyday politics, and the many histories and modes of social practice around making, showing, viewing, exchanging, manipulating, reproducing, circulating and archiving photographic images. Yet these articles push such issues and topics in exciting directions by addressing new photographic circumstances emerging throughout the world, initiated through new media's technological shifts and possibilities. In Africa, this has fuelled a range of transformations over the last fifteen years or so, transformations that are still unfolding. As the articles show, digital images, mobile phone cameras and social media (also accessed via phone) constitute the potent triad that has set off these transformations.

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后记不确定的轨迹和重构的社会世界：数字和社交媒体摄影的图像随行人员和其他实践

本期特刊中的案例研究来自东非、西非、中非和南部非洲，其案例研究建立在几十年来非洲摄影的重要工作基础上。这部作品考察了殖民时期的摄影和明信片、从殖民时代到现在的工作室作品、激进主义摄影、新闻摄影和使用摄影图像的艺术家。它解决了再现、肖像、美学、自我塑造、身份、权力和地位、现代性和物质性、照片在治理和日常政治中的作用以及围绕制作、展示、观看的许多历史和社会实践模式的问题。 、交换、处理、复制、传播和归档摄影图像。然而，这些文章通过解决世界各地出现的新摄影环境，将这些问题和主题推向令人兴奋的方向，这些新摄影环境是由新媒体的技术转变和可能性引发的。在非洲，这在过去 15 年左右的时间里推动了一系列变革，这些变革仍在展开。正如文章所示，数字图像、手机摄像头和社交媒体（也可通过电话访问）构成了引发这些转变的强大三元组。