This article is a visual analysis of “deceptive religious imagery” employed by the campaign teams of Bolsonaro and Lula during the 2022 Brazilian presidential race with the aim of garnering votes t...

Recently, studies have begun examining men’s interaction with domestic space to explore changing forms of masculinity and domesticity, arguing that housework has become a leisure activity for men, ...

The aim of this article is to reveal some of the different points of view, priorities and visions for the future of food systems which were on display in FOOD: Bigger than the Plate, a temporary ex...

In light of the high suicide rates among youth in the United States and the role that media can play in educating the public about it, this paper examines how the independent film Archie’s Final Pr...

Museums are presented as institutions housing a society’s most outstanding artistic collective achievements. They are racialized organisations helping preserve white supremacist normativity in the ...

This visual essay explores the possibility of everyday spaces to be theorized as interstices, i.e. in-between or temporary spaces. The images are black-and-white video snapshots of urban spaces in ...

This article studies the group of photographs by José Gómez de la Carrera, active in Cuba between 1885 and 1909, which entered the University of Navarra Museum Collection in 2018. With a multidisci...

This original photographic work investigates the intersection of street photography and the concept of the flâneur within an Australian urban context. By transforming cityscapes into visual texts, ...

Building on Tim Ingold’s theory on human correspondence, this visual essay plays with the photos of #EverydayNile, a project involving photojournalists from different Nile basin countries to re-pic...

Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This article uses the case study of the California wildfires of 2020/2021 to examine the visual discourse on fires on social media and investigate how it was harnessed by environmental activists to...

Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Despite the growing presence of highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec, Canada, there is a paucity of research on their adaptation processes, specifically regarding survival and social support...

Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 39, No. 4, 2024)

This visual essay, analysing a series of photographs curated by Indian photographer K.R. Sunil, explores how climate change leads to human precarity, triggering feelings of economic, psychological,...

Woman social media content creators’ visual expertise is ill understood and arguably overlooked. Through the example of lifestyle-creators, this article explores the ways they plan, produce, and lo...

Augmented reality filters allow users of popular social media sites such as Instagram to change their appearance through the application of digital overlays that adhere to the user’s face. The inst...

This collaborative ethnography details the Dolors project, a transdisciplinary exploration that evokes rural mothering in Copons, Catalonia, through an immersive photographic process. The project c...

We find both the quantitative approach to (de)bordering practices research and visual studies about the Polish-German border relatively underdeveloped. This paper aims at filling methodological and...

In this visual essay, personal growth, experienced by the authors, is explored and communicated through combined images and words. A theoretical framework – that of Mezirow’s (1994. “Understanding ...

This photo-documentary project captures unofficial signs posted on the streets of central Brooklyn, New York to explore how community members engage with each other during a recent period of intens...

In this time of climate and ecological crisis, we engaged with young people and their families to articulate feelings in and about the natural world. Our research question: how might the arts-based...

The essay considers socio-economic organisation from the perspective of monopoly capitalism analysis, a strand of heterodox economics. The centre-piece of the essay is a photographic study of two t...

‘Ring This Bell if You Want to Save Our Planet’ is a visual essay that explores the impact of Covid-19 restrictions on the Lower Lea Valley in East London. Its focus is to observe the impact on the...

Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

As the largest Caribbean island, Cuba is known for its picturesque Havana boardwalk, musical rhythms, and tropical climate. A closer look at the national public health model that integrates care fo...

Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 39, No. 1-2, 2024)

Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 39, No. 1-2, 2024)

Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 39, No. 1-2, 2024)