Philosophy of Photography (Journal)

ISSN 20403682 , ONLINE ISSN 20403690

Philosophy of Photography is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the scholarly understanding of photography. It is not committed to any one notion of photography nor, indeed, to any particular philosophical approach. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for debate on theoretical issues arising from the historical, political, cultural, scientific and critical matrix of ideas, practices and techniques that may be said to constitute photography as a multifaceted form. In a contemporary context remarkable for its diversity and rate of change, the conjunction of the terms 'philosophy' and 'photography' in the journal’s title is intended to act as a provocation to serious reflection on the ways in which existing and emergent photographic discourses might engage with and inform each other.

This title is indexed with the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

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Editors

Andrew Fisher
FAMU, Prague, Czechia
andyfisher@posteo.net

Bernd Behr
Camberwell College of Arts
b.behr@camberwell.arts.ac.uk

Alex Fletcher
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
a.c.fletcher@csm.arts.ac.uk

Noa Levin
Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
noa.levin@usi.ch

Notes for Contributors Download


Aims & Scope

Philosophy of Photography (POP) is an international peer-reviewed journal published six monthly in the spring and autumn. The journal's aim is to provide a forum for theoretical and critical debate of issues arising from the historical, political, cultural, scientific and critical matrix of ideas, practices and techniques that constitute photography as a multifaceted and changing form. In a contemporary context characterised by its diversity and rapid rate of transformation, the conjunction of ‘philosophy' and ‘photography' in the journal's title is intended to provoke reflection on the ways in which existing and emergent discourses might engage with each other to inform our understanding of the photographic.

Submissions

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Peer Review Policy

All articles undergo initial editorial screening either by the journal's Editorial Team and/or incumbent Guest Editors. Articles then undergo a rigorous anonymous peer review by two referees, following the guidance in Intellect's 'Peer review instructions'. Based on this feedback, the Editors will communicate a decision and revision suggestions to authors. To appeal an editorial decision, please contact the main Editor who will consider your case.

Ethical Guidelines

The journal follows the principles set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Read our Ethical Guidelines for more on the journal's standards.

Editors

Andrew Fisher
FAMU, Prague, Czechia
andyfisher@posteo.net

Bernd Behr
Camberwell College of Arts
b.behr@camberwell.arts.ac.uk

Alex Fletcher
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
a.c.fletcher@csm.arts.ac.uk

Noa Levin
Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
noa.levin@usi.ch

Editors

Andrew Fisher
FAMU, Prague, Czechia
andyfisher@posteo.net

Bernd Behr
Camberwell College of Arts
b.behr@camberwell.arts.ac.uk

Alex Fletcher
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
a.c.fletcher@csm.arts.ac.uk

Noa Levin
Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
noa.levin@usi.ch

Editors

Andrew Fisher
FAMU, Prague, Czechia
andyfisher@posteo.net

Bernd Behr
Camberwell College of Arts
b.behr@camberwell.arts.ac.uk

Alex Fletcher
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
a.c.fletcher@csm.arts.ac.uk

Noa Levin
Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
noa.levin@usi.ch


General Call for Papers

Philosophy of Photography is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the scholarly understanding of photography, published twice yearly since 2010.

In the last three years Philosophy of Photography has published a series of extensive special issues that have explored modes of cameraless photography (POP 13.2), violence and its relation to the contemporary image (POP 13.2 & 14.1), glitch aesthetics (POP 14.2), and the expanded visualities arising from new modes of machine learning and widely accessible AI (POP 15.1-2).

The next instalment of the journal (POP 16.1) will be an open submission issue to appear in autumn 2024. The editors warmly invite submissions from researchers and practitioners who seek to explore any aspect of photography as well as related modes of imaging and visual or digital culture from a critical and theoretical standpoint.

The journal publishes articles, interviews, critical commentaries, print symposia on key topics, book reviews, conference reports and analyses of specific technical developments as well as new English translations of significant work on photography in other languages. The editors are happy to consider proposals in the form of photographic / artistic works. We encourage all potential contributors to browse our back issues to get a fuller sense of the wide range of work we have published.

Although we welcome submissions on any theme relating to photography and its  theoretical discourses, Philosophy of Photography is currently particularly interested in receiving submissions that address the following topics:

  • The effect of emerging technologies on the photographic image
  • emergent technologies both as a factor in, and a tool for envisioning environmental crisis
  • non-normative and non-binary imaginaries in the contemporary visual milieu
  • race and the contemporary image
  • new theorisations of race and technology
  • forms of protest enabled by contemporary imaging technologies
  • the social and political agency of the photographer/artist
  • the geo-political impact of drone photography/satellite images and the contemporary landscape image
  • the future of documentary photography
  • cameraless photography
  • philosophical analyses of recent debates about realism
  • political philosophies of the contemporary image
  • the politics and ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-made images
  • immersive visual environments (360-degree photography, VR/AR/MR)
  • theoretical and practical challenges to (or defences of) the continuing relevance of the term 'photography'

The deadline for submissions for POP 16.1 is 15 June 2024.

Submissions should be made via our website: Intellect Books | submit/philosophy-of-photography

Prospective book, exhibition and conference reviewers should contact the editors by email.  We especially invite expressions of interest in reviewing the following titles:

  • Joy Gregory (ed.), Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain, Mack Books & Autograph, 2024.
  • Achille Mbembe, Brutalism, Duke University Press, 2024.

  • Adnan Madani & Jean-Paul Martinon, Visual Cultures as World-Forming, Sternberg Press & Goldsmiths, 2024.

  • Laura U. Marks, The Fold, Duke University Press, 2024.

  • Amanda K. Greene, Glitchy Vision: A Feminist History of the Social Photo, MIT Press, 2024.

  • Kimberly Juanita Brown, Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual, MIT Press, 2024.

  • Joanna Zylinska, The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI, MIT Press, 2023.

  • Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism, Verso, 2024.

  • Dominique Routhier, With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation, Verso, 2023.

  • Matteo Pasquinelli, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence, Verso, 2023.

  • Sean Cubitt, Truth: Aesthetic Politics, Goldsmith Press, 2023.

  • Jane Tormey, Photography and Political Aesthetics, Routledge, 2024.

  • Emily Le Febvre, Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013, Routledge, 2024.

  • Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro (eds), Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba, Haymarket, 2024.

Please make sure to use the journal’s style guide in preparing your contribution.

Prospective guest editors with ideas for special issues, special sections or print symposia devoted to particular themes are invited to approach the editors with their proposal.

Philosophy of Photography is published by Intellect Books and indexed with the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For further information see: Philosophy of Photography (Journal)

Editors

Andrew Fisher, 
FAMU, Prague, Czechia:
andyfisher@posteo.net

Bernd Behr, Camberwell College of Arts:
b.behr@camberwell.arts.ac.uk

Alex Fletcher, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London:
a.c.fletcher@csm.arts.ac.uk

Noa Levin, 
Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland:
noa.levin@usi.ch

Editors

Andrew Fisher
FAMU, Prague, Czechia
andyfisher@posteo.net

Bernd Behr
Camberwell College of Arts
b.behr@camberwell.arts.ac.uk

Alex Fletcher
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
a.c.fletcher@csm.arts.ac.uk

Noa Levin
Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
noa.levin@usi.ch

Advisory Board

Ariella Azoulay
Brown University, USA

Jan Baetens
Leuven University, Belgium

Geoffrey Batchen
City University of New York, USA

Andrew Benjamin
Kingston University, UK

David Campany
University of Westminster, UK

Claire Colebrook
Penn State University, USA

Andrew Dewdney
London South Bank University, UK

Tomáš Dvořák
The Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, Czech Republic

Mika Elo
University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland

Johnny Golding
The Royal College of Art, UK

Yaiza Hernández Velázquez
CENDEAC, Spain

Miki Kratsman
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Yve Lomax
Royal College of Art, UK

Stewart Martin
Middlesex University, UK

Enric Mira
Universidad de Alicante, Spain

Peter Osborne
Kingston University, UK

Jussi Parikka
Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton)

Anna Reading
King's College London, UK

Jorge Ribalta
Photographer, freelance curator & editor

Víctor del Río
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

John Roberts
Wolverhampton University, UK

Daniel Rubinstein
Central Saint Martins

François Soulages
Paris VIII University, France

Susan Trangmar
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

Pedro Vincente
ELISAVA/Universitat Pompeu, Spain

Editors

Andrew Fisher
FAMU, Prague, Czechia
andyfisher@posteo.net

Bernd Behr
Camberwell College of Arts
b.behr@camberwell.arts.ac.uk

Alex Fletcher
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
a.c.fletcher@csm.arts.ac.uk

Noa Levin
Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
noa.levin@usi.ch

 
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Contents

  • Volume (14): Issue (1)
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  • Volume (14): Issue (2)
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  • Volume (10): Issue (1)
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  • Volume (9): Issue (1)
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  • Volume (9): Issue (2)
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  • Volume (2): Issue (1)
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  • Volume (2): Issue (2)
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  • Volume (1): Issue (1)
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  • Volume (1): Issue (2)
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Editors

Andrew Fisher
FAMU, Prague, Czechia
andyfisher@posteo.net

Bernd Behr
Camberwell College of Arts
b.behr@camberwell.arts.ac.uk

Alex Fletcher
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
a.c.fletcher@csm.arts.ac.uk

Noa Levin
Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
noa.levin@usi.ch

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