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.
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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.
Exhibition review – Susan Meiselas: Mediations
Alex Danchev and Debbie Lisle observed some years ago that ‘many artists are highly sophisticated analysts of the international sphere’ (2009, 775). In our recent article on appropriation as a method for visual analysis of the international, we therefore suggest understanding the scholar as image-maker and the image-maker as scholar (Möller, Bellmer, and Saugmann 2021).
A good example of the image-maker as scholar is Susan Meiselas whose work can currently be seen in the impressive retrospective Susan Meiselas: Mediations at C׀O Berlin (see also Meiselas 2018) covering a 50-year career.
Happy Midsummer: imageandpeace.com wishes a relaxing vacation season
Once again, politics and the media are dominated by images of confrontation, polarization, destruction, armed aggression, and human suffering – the whole sorry repertoire of failed attempts at peaceful conflict transformation of which we thought as a thing of the past, at least in Europe. Once again, however, war sidelines peace, war images sideline peace images.
Visual Peace – exhibition by Sebastian Schultz
Imageandpeace.com would like to direct your attention to the exhibition Visual Peace, displaying new paintings by Sebastian Schultz.