Postponed until after the midsummer festivities, we are now happy to send you summer greetings combined with updated information about our recent activities.
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German Peace Prize for Photography awarded to Sebastian Wells and Vsevolod Kazarin
In 1648, the peace of Münster and Osnabrück, ending the Thirty Years’ War that had raged across vast swathes of Europe, established sovereignty and territorial integrity as the basic organizing principles for the modern state. As Kalevi Holsti reminds us, the Treaties of Westphalia were unique: “Europe had not previously witnessed a multilateral diplomatic gathering that was designed both to terminate a pan-European war and to build some sort of order out of the chaos into which Europe had increasingly fallen since the late fifteenth century” (1991: 25).
New Publication: “Interactive peace imagery – integrating visual research and peace education” with Journal of Peace Education
Venturing into peace education, we have written an article titled Interactive Peace Imagery – Integrating Visual Research and Peace Education. The article is now available in Journal of Peace Education.
New Publication: “The Photographic Disappearance and Reappearance of Skin Color” with Membrana – Journal of Photography, Theory and Visual Culture
We are happy to announce publication in Membrana – Journal of Photography, Theory and Visual Culture of a new article on the photography of Richard Mosse, written together with Rune Saugmann. The piece, designed for the journal’s Skin issue, is now available online.
Imageandpeace.com wishes Happy Holidays!
This year has seen shocking and devastating developments on a global scale. The Russian war against Ukraine certainly affected our attempts of comprehending international affairs, and advancing peace more broadly appears rather illusionary in these times. When one year comes to an end – especially such a calamitous one – the hopes for the next year to bring better news are high.
New Publication: “Active Looking: Images in Peace Mediation” with Peacebuilding
We are happy to announce publication of an article titled “Active Looking: Images in Peace Mediation” in the peer-reviewed journal Peacebuilding.
Imageandpeace at PCWP in Magdeburg
On September 15 and 16, imageandpeace participated in the 13th edition of the conference on Popular Culture and World Politics – New (A)venues – in Magdeburg, Germany.
Exhibition Review: Currency – Photography Beyond Capture
What happens after Cartier-Bresson’s decisive moment? Photographic images, this exhibition argues, “fundamentally shape acts of seeing and being seen.” Serving as “contextual frames for narrative invention,” photographs define to some extent what qualifies as knowledge. Photography produces knowledge but also confirms established ways of knowledge production by operating within established frames and conventions. In contrast, Currency – Photography Beyond Capture “looks at how … practitioners have challenged the meaning and value of photographic images and investigated the extended lives, temporalities, and materialities of image cultures beyond the moment of capture.”
‘Peace’ by Hermann Sebastian Schultz – New artwork on imageandpeace.com
Image & Peace proudly presents Peace by Hermann Sebastian Schultz, the fourth artwork commissioned by imageandpeace.com. Peace is a 4,5m x 1,75m oil painting accented with a sound installation made in collaboration with Santeri Pilli.
Guest contribution by Daniel Beck and Morgane Desoutter: Visual Peace in Kurdish Cinema
Kurdish cinema is often considered a typical case of ‘cinemas of conflict’ (Smets 2014) and in the common understanding, the Kurds themselves are generally associated with the idea of conflict. In our blog contribution1 we argue that films can offer views on Kurdish life outside of conflicts and thus contribute to peace. Our article examined how four Turkish–Kurdish films (Kilamek Ji Bo Beko, Güneşi Gördüm, Min Dît-The Children of Diyarbakır, and Meş) understand and represent the Kurdish Question, the Kurdish self, and the opposing other and how this influences the scope of plausible political behaviour. We highlight how both visualizations of negative and positive peace are present in the films, but also in what the films enable and produce.