Photography, Place, Environment
About the Book Series
Photography, Place, Environment publishes original scholarship and critical thinking exploring ways in which photography contributes to, or challenges, narratives relating to geography, environment, landscape and place, historically and now.
International in scope, and innovatory in placing imagery as both the object and the method of enquiry, the series includes single-authored and edited volumes by new scholars as well as established names in the field. By critiquing relationships between land, aesthetics, culture and photography, the books in this series also foster debates on photographic methodologies, theory and practices.
Displacement, Environments, and Photo-Politics in the Mediterranean: Migrant Sea
1st Edition
By Parvati Nair
October 31, 2024
Focusing on the Mediterranean region from 2015 onwards, this volume explores photography’s engagement with displacement, a process that denotes the environmental and social breakdown of places and the forced mobility of people. The ongoing proliferation of photography of the displaced plays a ...
Survey Practices and Landscape Photography Across the Globe
1st Edition
Edited
By Sophie Junge, Erin Hyde Nolan
October 07, 2024
This edited volume considers the many ways in which landscape (seen and unseen) is fundamental to placemaking, colonial settlement, and identity formation. Collectively, the book’s authors map a constellation of interlocking photographic histories and survey practices, decentering Europe as the ...
Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene: Activating Archives
1st Edition
By Bergit Arends
July 09, 2024
Moving beyond existing scholarship, this book connects photography, archives, ecology and historical change and critically applies the Anthropocene as framework to the in-depth study of artists’ projects. It discards single modes of seeing environmental transformations in favour of a multiple and ...
Photography and Environmental Activism: Visualising the Struggle Against Industrial Pollution
1st Edition
By Conohar Scott
May 27, 2024
This publication maps out key moments in the history of environmentalist photography, while also examining contemporary examples of artistic practice. Historically, photography has acted as a technology for documenting the industrial transformation of the world around us; usually to benefit the ...
Landscapes between Then and Now: Recent Histories in Southern African Photography, Performance and Video Art
1st Edition
By Nicola Brandt
December 13, 2021
In Landscapes Between Then and Now, Nicola Brandt examines the increasingly compelling and diverse cross-disciplinary work of photographers and artists made during the transition from apartheid to post-apartheid and into the contemporary era. By examining specific artworks made in South Africa, ...
Coal Cultures: Picturing Mining Landscapes and Communities
1st Edition
By Derrick Price
June 30, 2021
Coal is the commodity that powered the technologies that made the modern world. It also brought about unique communities marked by a high degree of social solidarity and self-help. Mining was central to working class life, drawing rural populations into industrial labour, but it often took place in...