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- These photos were my life: understanding the impact of participatory photography projects (2018)
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- Participatory photography for peace: using images to open up dialogue after violence (2015)
- Visual ethics: a guide for photographers, journalists, and media makers (2021)
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Photographing Central Asia: from the periphery of the Russian empire to global presence
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Berlin, Boston:
De Gruyter
(2022), viii, 431 pp., figures, tables, index
ISBN 978-3-11-075442-1 (print); 978-3-11-075446-9 (pdf)
CC BY-NC-ND
"The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific tool that reifies reality, subjectively frames it, and fits it into various political, ideological, commercial, scientific, and artistic contexts. Without reducing the entire argument to the binary of ‘photography and power’, the ...
Visual ethics: a guide for photographers, journalists, and media makers
New York; London:
Routledge
(2021) 2nd ed., xx, 226 pp., bibliogr. p.203-219, index
ISBN 978-1-03-215212-7 (hbk); 978-1-03-215190-8 (pbk); 978-1-00-324304-5 (online)
"The book covers the definitions and uses of six philosophies, analytical methods, cultural awareness, visual reporting, documentary, citizen journalists, advertising, public relations, typography, graphic design, data visualizations, cartoons, motion pictures, television, computers and the web, aug...
These photos were my life: understanding the impact of participatory photography projects
Community development journal, volume 53, issue 4 (2018), pp. 618-636
"This article presents research on Los Talleres de Fotografia Social (TAFOS), a pioneering Peruvian community photography project, that demonstrates the enduring long-term impact that community-led participatory photography projects can have on the critical consciousness of participants. Participato...
Participatory photography for peace: using images to open up dialogue after violence
Journal of peacebuilding & development, volume 10, issue 3 (2015), pp. 74-88
"This article begins with a literature review of Participatory Photography (PP) that highlights how this tool has been mostly implemented for action research, advocacy, and public health purposes. It shows how scholars have only quite recently begun to recognise its ability to generate change among ...
When the camera exposes the rifle. Special report: violations against photojournalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Ramallah:
MADA Palestinian Center for Development & Media Freedoms
(2015), 13 pp., diagrams
"The three photos of the drowned Syrian refugee kid Aylan Kurdi, the Palestinian kid Mohammad Al-Dorra (during the second Intifada) and the Vietnamese Napalm girl Phan Th. Kim Phúc, caused enormous influence, not only among millions of people but also on decision makers. Therefore, photojournalists...
Picturing Afghanistan: the photography of foreign conflict
New York:
Hampton Press
(2012), xiii, 199 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.161-183, index
ISBN 978-1-61289-039-5
"Picturing Afghanistan is an in-depth account of the Euro-American visualization of the conflict in Afghanistan. Comparing images in public affairs, psychological warfare, journalism and the photobook, the author argues that there are no strong boundaries between photography in war and photography a...
Picturing atrocity: photography in crisis
London:
Reaktion Books
(2012), 319 pp., many illustr.
ISBN 978-1-86189-872-2 (pbk)
"From the massacre of the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee to the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, from famine in China to apartheid in South Africa, Picturing Atrocity examines a broad spectrum of photographs. Each of the essays focuses specifically on an iconic image, offering a distinct approach ...
