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Ageing With Smartphones in Ireland: When Life Becomes Craft

Ageing With Smartphones Eagney / Staunton Ageing With Smartphones in Ireland: When Life Becomes Craft Selina Eagney & Ciara Staunton   Ageing With Smartphones in Ireland: When Life Becomes Craft by Pauline Garvey and Daniel Miller, London: University College London Press, 2021, pp. 240 Book review by Selina Eagney and Ciara Staunton How can we become younger as we grow older? What seems like a…

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Being Borrowed: On Egyptian Migration to the Gulf

Being Borrowed: On Egyptian Migration to the Gulf

Being Borrowed: On Egyptian Migration to the Gulf Lina El-Shamy in Conversation with Farida Youssef Being Borrowed: On Egyptian Migration to the Gulf is a creative, collaborative exhibition about the experiences of Egyptians living in the Gulf region, an underrepresented and understudied area of inquiry. Artwork by 15 participants explored themes such as social class, aspiration, family…

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Activism in the Arts: I’ve Got U Under My Skin: AIDS & Classical Music

Activism in the Arts: I’ve Got U Under My Skin: AIDS & Classical Music

Activism in the Arts Kevin Madill Activism in the Arts: I’ve Got U Under My Skin: AIDS & Classical Music Kevin Madill Activism in the Arts: I’ve Got U Under My Skin: AIDS & Classical Music is an exhibition comprised of print scores, audio recordings, and an accompanying QR code listening list curated by Kevin Madill, Music Librarian, the University of British Columbia (UBC). Works exhibited were…

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Contributors

Table of Contents | PDF Contributors Contributors Contributors   Cambre, Carolina is an associate professor at Concordia University and Associate Researcher at IRCAV-Paris 2020-2025. Her work explores vernacular visual expression asking: How do people produce and direct the visual space? How is the image a doing? What are the social and cultural work/ings of images? She works through visual…

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Spaces of Empathy: Visual Strategies in Photojournalistic Imagery of Migration

Spaces of Empathy: Visual Strategies in Photojournalistic Imagery of Migration

Table of Contents | Article doi: 10.17742/IMAGE.TP.13.2.8 | PDF Spaces of Empathy Maria Nilsson Spaces of Empathy: Visual Strategies in Photojournalistic Imagery of Migration Maria Nilsson This essay explores visual representations of migration by drawing on a Swedish case to reflect on broader questions regarding the position of the witness, including the photographer and the distant…

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Guided Into a World Unknown: Reflections on the Making of a Visual Essay With Refugees

Guided Into a World Unknown: Reflections on the Making of a Visual Essay With Refugees

Table of Contents | Article doi: 10.17742/IMAGE.TP.13.2.9 | PDF Guided Into a World Unknown Shirley van der Maarel Guided Into a World Unknown: Reflections on the Making of a Visual Essay With Refugees Shirley van der Maarel The constant presence of refugees in the media has constructed its own reality, at the expense of lived reality. Any work concerned with refugees’ lived experience will…

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The Wall and the Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion at Baja California Borderlands: A Pictorial Journey

The Wall and the Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion at Baja California Borderlands: A Pictorial Journey

Table of Contents | Article doi: 10.17742/IMAGE.TP.13.2.7 | PDF Baja California Borderlands Ángel Iglesias Ortiz The Wall and the Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion at Baja California Borderlands: A Pictorial Journey Ángel Iglesias Ortiz The essay considers the border wall between Mexico and the United States as its primary visual, symbolic, and material reference to reflect on the politics of…

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(Dis)Affect, Photography, Place

Table of Contents | Article doi: 10.17742/IMAGE.TP.13.2.6 | PDF (Dis)Affect, Photography, Place Patricia Prieto-Blanco (Dis)Affect, Photography, Place Patricia Prieto-Blanco Migrants are connected for a variety of reasons (Leurs and Prabhakar 2018, p. 247), and in a myriad of ways (Cabalquinto 2018; Özdemir, Mutluer, and Özyürek 2019; Gencel Bek and Prieto-Blanco 2020). Drawing from a larger…

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A Key to Home: Illuminating the Role of the SIM Card in Refugee Resettlement

A Key to Home: Illuminating the Role of the SIM Card in Refugee Resettlement

Table of Contents | Article doi: 10.17742/IMAGE.TP.13.2.5 | PDF A Key to Home Liz Hingley A Key to Home: Illuminating the Role of the SIM Card in Refugee Resettlement Liz Hingley This paper considers how creative research mediated by mobile devices might contribute to upending inherited notions of refugee powerlessness and passivity in galleries and museums. A collaborative project, undertaken…

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Gender and Migration: Resisting with a Camera. A Researcher to Researcher Experience

Gender and Migration: Resisting with a Camera. A Researcher to Researcher Experience

Table of Contents | Article doi: 10.17742/IMAGE.TP.13.2.4 | PDF Resisting with a Camera Ciccaglione / Hernández-Albújar Gender and Migration: Resisting with a Camera. A Researcher to Researcher Experience Yolanda Hernández-AlbújarAdriana Ciccaglione This manuscript is a reflexive collaboration between two differently situated researchers. It meets at the crossroad of knowledge and visual…

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Migrant Portraiture and Life Imaging in Fazal Sheikh’s Photodocumentaries

Table of Contents | Article doi: 10.17742/IMAGE.TP.13.3 | PDF Fazal Sheikh’s Photodocumentaries Birgit Mersmann Migrant Portraiture and Life Imaging in Fazal Sheikh’s Photodocumentaries Birgit Mersmann This article explores the role of migrant photo portraiture for life imaging by providing a close reading of two photobooks by contemporary photographer Fazal Sheikh – A Sense of Common Ground…

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The Photographer Photographed: A Conversation with Jean Mohr

The Photographer Photographed: A Conversation with Jean Mohr

Table of Contents | Article doi: 10.17742/IMAGE.TP.13.2.2 | PDF The photographer photographed Reuben Connolly Ross The Photographer Photographed: A Conversation with Jean Mohr Reuben Connolly Ross The Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, who died in November 2018 at the age of 93, is well known for his long career documenting the plight of the displaced and dispossessed. Especially noteworthy are his…

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Representing and Reframing Migration

Representing and Reframing Migration

Table of Contents | Article doi: 10.17742/IMAGE.TP.13.2.1 | PDF Representing and Reframing Migration Cambre / Lehmuskallio Representing and Reframing Migration Maria-Carolina CambreAsko Lehmuskallio “The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it” (James Baldwin 1979). Millions of people find…

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IMAGINATIONS 13-2 | TRAVELLING BY PHOTOGRAPH: REPRESENTING AND REFRAMING MIGRATION

IMAGINATIONS 13-2 | TRAVELLING BY PHOTOGRAPH: REPRESENTING AND REFRAMING MIGRATION

Contents Representing and Reframing Migration | Maria-Carolina Cambre, Asko Lehmuskallio The Photographer Photographed: A Conversation with Jean Mohr | Reuben Connolly Ross Migrant Portraiture and Life Imaging in Fazal Sheikh’s Photodocumentaries | Birgit Mersmann Gender and Migration: Resisting with a Camera. A Researcher to Researcher Experience | Yolanda Hernández-Albújar, Adriana…

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IMAGINATIONS 13-1 | Critical and Creative Engagements with Petro-Media

IMAGINATIONS 13-1 | Critical and Creative Engagements with Petro-Media

Contents Editorial Introduction | Brent Bellamy Introduction to Critical and Creative Engagements with Petro-Media | Emily Roehl, Rachel Webb Jekanowski Oil-Sponsored Exhibitions and Canada’s Extractive Politics of Cultural Production | Camille-Mary Sharp Oil Topography: Weaving the World of Oil | Tomas Borsa, Ruth Beer Excerpts of The Tome of Light | Elia Vargas Founding Fathers (in a Tailings…

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Editorial Introduction

Table of Contents | Article doi: 10.17742/IMAGE.PM.13.1.0 | PDF Editorial Introduction Brent Ryan Bellamy Editorial Introduction Brent Ryan Bellamy   Ten years ago, Sheena Wilson and Andrew Pendakis edited volume 3 number 2 “Sighting Oil,” the fourth full issue of Imaginations. Andriko Lozowy’s cover image of a massive digger wheel still arrests me. The issue includes stand out pieces by Ursula…

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Excavating CBC’s Docudrama The Tar Sands

Excavating CBC’s Docudrama The Tar Sands

Table of Contents | Article doi: 10.17742/ IMAGE.PM.13.1.6 | PDF The Tar Sands Patrick McCurdy Excavating CBC’s Docudrama The Tar Sands Patrick McCurdy This article examines the political controversy around the banned 1977 CBC docudrama The Tar Sands, which portrays the personal and political struggle of Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed to secure the Syncrude agreement to develop Alberta’s…