The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Global Photographies and Questions of Cultural Translation 

Lucy Soutter 

1. How to Use This Book

    Lucy Soutter and Duncan Wooldridge

PART ONE

Photography in the Anthropocene: Climate Change and Environment

Edited by Jean Brundrit and Svea Josephy

2. The View from the South 

     Anna Stielau

3. Decolonising Detritus: (Re)cycles of Extraction and (e-)Waste in the Photographs of Jean Claude Nsabimana

    Svea Josephy, Jane Alexander and Jean-Claude Nsabimana

4. The Politics of Water: Social Justice and Photography in the Anthropocene in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Annabelle Wienand and Thobani K 

5. Antarctica, Ice, and Photography 

    Jean Brundrit 

6. A Dialogic View from the North

    Marsha Meskimmon, Helen Glanville, Richard Hodgkins and Paul Wood 

PART TWO

Decolonial Practices: Speaking Back to the Canon

Edited by Nina Mangalanayagam and Emese Mucsi

7. Can We Use Photography Against Photography? An Interview with Rolando Vazquez Melken 

     Nina Mangalanayagam, Emese Mucsi and Rolando Vázquez Melken

8. Decolonial Strategies and the Southasian Imagination: Auto-narrative, Archival Responses and Counter-narratives    

     Tanvi Mishra             

9. ‘What’s Class Got to Do With It?’: Decoloniality, Spatiality, Class Struggle in the Photographs of The Evaton Peoples’ Archive

     Nomusa Makhubu

10. Tongue in Cheek: Julie Edel Hardenberg’s Visual Language 

       Louise Wolthers

11. Localising Identity and Understanding Legacy: A New Generation of Hungarian Photographers Search for the ‘Locus of Enunciation’          

      Ágnes Básthy

12. Archive In Situ: Emese Mucsi and Nina Mangalanayagam in conversation with Jennifer Bajorek

      Jennifer Bajorek, Nina Mangalanayagam and Emese Mucsi 

PART THREE

Gender and Queer Theory in Photography Today: Identities and Histories

Edited by Alejandra Niedermaier                              

13. Visual Constellations

       Alejandra Niedermaier

14. Expanded Sexual and Gender Identities

      Flora Dunster

15. Visual Disruptions of Global Landscapes

      Selfa A. Chew-Melendez

16. Gender in Curation and Exhibition Design 

      Sandra Nagel and Jonathan Lalloz 

17. Dissident Artists as Protagonists of Visibility Processes

      Josefina Goñi Bacugalupi

18. Poetic, Critical and Political Resonance: Report from a Roundtable between Selfa A. Chew-Melendez, Flora Dunster, Josefina Goñi Bacugalupi, Sandra Nagel, Alejandra               

      Niedermaier and Jonathan Lalloz

      Alejandra Niedermaier

PART FOUR

New Materialities: Expanded Practices in Contemporary Art Photography

Edited by Duncan Wooldridge and Rashi Rajguru 

19. An Engine, Not a Camera: Curating Environmental Histories of Photography and Extraction 

      Boaz Levin

20. Cut and Paste: Performing History, Materiality, and the Family Album in the Work of Lebohang Kganye

      Svea Josephy and Lebohang Kganye

21. Public Arrivals, Private Departure: The Life of Images at Chobi Mela and Photo Kathmandu

      Veeranganakumari Solanki

22. The Physical Lives of Images, Their Matter, Appearances and Disappearances in the Context of Beirut

      Gregory Buchakjian

23. The Stickiness of Images: Materiality and Attention in Contemporary European Photographies

      Duncan Wooldridge

24. The Archive of Unnamed Workers: Examining the Legacy of Colonial-era Photography in AI        

      Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Alexia Achilleos

25. Cai Dongdong's Artistic Trajectory: From Conceptual Image Making to Photographic Installation

      He Yining and Cai Dongdong

PART FIVE

Forming Communities: Networks, Platforms and Institutions

Edited by Camilo Páez Vanegas 

26. A Mapping of Photo Communities in Southeast Asia 

      Zhuang Wubin

27. Photography and Trans-Africanism: A Story of Journeys

       Emeka Okereke

28. Collection and Educational Dissemination: A Case Study in Bogotá, Colombia

      Camilo Páez Vanegas

29. Towards A New Arts Ecosystem: PhotoIreland’s Strategy in Converging Communities around Photography

       Ángel Luis González Fernández

30. Towards an Artisanal Intelligence: Reflections from the Academic Periphery in Latin America

      Camilo Páez Vanegas, Anamaría Briede Westermeyer, Ana Casas Broda, Alexander Fattal and Gisela Volá

PART SIX

Global Approaches to Photobooks: From Production to Distribution

Edited by Yinhua Chu and Zhuang Wubin 

31. The Expansion of the Photobook: From Traditional to Post-digital

      Yinhua Chu

32. The Photobook as Shape Shifter in the Expanded Realm of Contemporary Photography: Examples from South Korea

      Sunyoung Kim

33. Transforming Perspectives: A Conversation with Yanyou Yuan Di, Pioneer of Chinese Contemporary Photographic Publishing

       He Yining and Yanyou Yuan Di

34. Toward a Publishing Model to Come

       Ivan Vartanian

35. Foto Fémina: Shaping the Narrative of Female Photographers from Latin America and the Caribbean 

      Verónica Sanchis Bencomo

36. Curating Photobooks in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong: A Roundtable

       Zhuang Wubin, Hà Đào, Kalen Wing Ki Lee, Jeffrey J C Lim and Kurniadi Widodo

Index

Biography

Lucy Soutter is an artist and writer based in London. She is Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster. Her work focuses on questions of value and meaning in the expanded field of photography and contemporary art. She is the author of Why Art Photography? (2nd ed. 2018), co-editor of Writer Conversations (2023) and writes for publications including 1000 Words, Photoworks, and Source.

Duncan Wooldridge is an artist and writer and is Reader in Photography at the School of Digital Arts, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. His research explores experimentation, materialities and photography’s future tenses. He is the editor of John Hilliard: Not Black and White (2014), the author of To Be Determined: Photography and the Future (2021), and the co-editor of Writer Conversations (2023).

“In this unprecedented geological era, the book chronicles the efforts of artists, photographers, writers, historians and institution builders to comprehend our time through the lens of photography, exploring its diversity, materiality, and the fractures it reveals.”

Sarker Protick, Photographer, Artist, and Co-curator Chobi Mela Festival

 “This Companion to Global Photographies is a remarkable and ambitious attempt in introducing a different, refreshing way to present some of the current, urgent conversations about photography - one that is multi-directional, polycentric and collaborative. By acknowledging and creating the space for the many perspectives and opacities around the thematics approached, the book presents itself as a powerful set of tools to approach photography as a medium in constant expansion, addressing its global interconnections. A welcomed initiative that will hopefully set fertile ground for more.”  

Elisa Medde, Independent Publisher and Curator