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Photographs are rarely given much academic attention, especially, in Africa. This is against the popular use of photography in political communication. Against this background, this study examines ...

Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 3-4, 2023)

There is a world, invisible to many, of terminally ill people being cared for full time by a loving family member or friend. These caregivers are living with burdens and pressures that even regular...

The far right is active on social media, including YouTube for its outreach, community-building and mainstreaming of radical content. This article compares campaign videos of two distinct Finnish far-right parties. It develops a rhetoric-performative and multimodal analysis of audiovisual material and unveils how the contemporary Finnish far right articulates and performs affectively ‘us’ through counterhegemonic

This visual essay portrays how an artist-researcher-teacher investigates the idea of a/r/tography and constructivist teaching pedagogy while using her own artwork, Fantasy Museum, as a platform for teaching. Fantasy Museum features a series of digitally altered photographs of museum visitors viewing emptied artworks, and visitors are invited to draw their own collections inside the empty spaces, which

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In the past decades, several grassroots movement organisations across the world have tackled the issue of corruption with the aim of mobilising knowledge on this widespread problem. In our paper, we look at three bottom-up civil society organisations and collective actors fighting for greater transparency and curbing of corruption in Indian society, highlighting how they employ visuals to debate on

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This visual essay has two aims. On the one hand, it is intended as a visual exploration of gentrification-induced displacement. It focuses on photographic material generated for Deptford is Changing, a research project which exposed and politicised the emotional upheaval caused by contemporary state-led gentrification in Deptford, south-east London. On the other hand, the essay presents socially and

Street art in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta is popular, dynamic and vibrant. Like other cities such as Buenos Aires, it has become something of a tourist attraction in its own right. This article examines Yogyakarta street art as a visual phenomenon that activates political change potential in three ways. First, it provokes the critical consideration of ordinary people who pass by the walls and

In this visual essay, I draw on my own photographs taken as a so-called food-aid monitor working in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for the United Nations World Food Programme. I provide an autoethnographic account to allow consideration of the visual dimension of humanitarian aid: everyday observations, field visits and snapshots inform humanitarian action. I intend to shed a different light

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The rapidly developing field of visual methods and growing body of literature employing visual methodologies in the collection of data have contributed to the acknowledgement of the senses with a prevalence of sight in the research process. Yet, the ‘sensuous scholarship’ is not always considered in the systematic methodological process when visual methodologies are at stake. The aim of this paper

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the precarious porosity of the human body. Biological vulnerability and the fear of contagion in recent times has prompted the exercise of caution by enforcing distinct demarcating boundaries between the environment, the self, and the other. Thus, the faculty of touch is restricted despite its importance in functional, developmental, haptic, intimate, non-verbal, therapeutic

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Among lens-based artists and educators, the generative potential of annotating photographs, especially in participatory contexts, is commonly understood. Responding to a lack of cohesive labelling and description of these practices in the literature, the authors identify them as elaborated images and categorise how the method operates. Elaborated images unsettle the authoritative perspective of the

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Selections from Alexa Vachon’s series S/KIN BERLIN 52.49° N, 13.42° E were featured in the ‘What is an Image’ digital exhibition curated by Visual Studies co-editor Kate Korroch for the 2022 International Visual Sociology Conference (What is an image? is available to view online until 18 September 2023. https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/10672487/what-is-an-image). One of Vachon’s photographs

Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)

This photo essays fleshes out the notion of juxtaposition, both as an empirical reality in unequal cities but also as a visual and aesthetic technique to capture the overlaps between powerful and everyday city fabrics. Across a series of nine images, I illustrate the visual practice of juxtaposition by finding the edge of the two fabrics within the same place, of contrasting textures and tones, the

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Priceless artworks are being destroyed or, at least, they appear to be. Yet the very act of climate protest targeting these works in what could be construed as acts of vandalism are in themselves productive of new visual media through which climate concern and urgency is conveyed. This article offers reflections upon one way in which these protest actions may be conceptually understood. It does so

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This paper examines how Black men use a participant photography project as a tool for meaning making during the current political and social context of anti-Black racism, Black activism, and intersectional politics. Using a critical visual methodology in the analysis of the images, this paper will examine how Black men make meaning of current social issues through the types of images they produced

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Framing bias was suggested in earlier research and media outlets have been accused of partisan tendencies in accordance with the political leanings they are supposedly associated with in popular imagination. The 2008 election cycle presented compelling evidence for the influence wielded by social media platforms in political communication, thereby establishing them as critical tools for candidates’

This paper adopts a geosemiotics perspective to the study of top-down views produced by drone hobbyists to explore how they challenge or disrupt traditional meanings associated with verticality. Using a dataset of 748 drone visuals collected from two months of participant observation on social media platforms, we identify four unique functions of top-down views: as abstract art, as transformations

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This study investigates the visual framing of the Biden Presidency based on a content analysis of images released by the White House for its first 100 days in office on Flickr, an online photo-sharing site. The rhetorical ideas of Kenneth Burke and the communication theories of agenda-setting and frame-building provide the conceptual foundations for the study. The Biden administration frames Vice President

Considering the popularity of online platforms and their significant force in producing collective discourses, attitudes, and patterns of behaviours, this study critically examined the photographic portrayal of old Iranians on websites during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study focuses on this age group, which has been identified as the most vulnerable to the virus. Photographs of old people during COVID-19

Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)

Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)

This paper proposes a method for quantitative colour analysis aimed at determining colour variation between different sets of films with a common selection criterion. The process is exemplified by comparing films selected at the Cannes Film Festival and the highest-grossing films in the years 1988 and 2018. The method will try to answer several questions. Firstly, whether there are any differences

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