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Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination

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  • Spyros Tsikouras showing photographs depicting his interactions with tourists from the time when he operated a small restaurant in the 1980s and 1990s in a Sfakian highland village (Photograph: Konstantinos Kalantzis, 2017).
  • Family photos and catholic images on the wall of Joseph Vaz’s cycle workshop, Jaffna (Photograph: Vindhya Buthpitiya, 2018)
  • Dr Mrs Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti group portrait. The archives of Dr Mrs Funmilayo Ransome Kuti (Photograph © University of Ibadan, Special Collections, Ibadan, Nigeria | Re-photographed by Naluwembe Binaisa, 2018).
  • The Instagram profile of an 18 year old Bangladeshi student, revealing images recording one of his several visits to Jaflong in northern Bangladesh (Photograph: Christopher Pinney, 2018)
  • A family reunion after the Khmer Rouge, Stoung district of Kampong Thom, Cambodia, 1989 (Re-photographed by Sokphea Young, 2018).
  • During large-scale protests in Managua in 2018, citizens used social media extensively to organize themselves and to document events. (Photograph: Ileana Selejan, 2018)

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‘Citizens of photography: the Camera and the Political Imagination’ is an empirical anthropological investigation into the relationship between “representation” through everyday images and “representation” through politics.

The PhotoDemos Collective is a group of six researchers. The names of the researchers and the countries in which they researched are Naluwembe Binaisa (Nigeria), Vindhya Buthpitiya (Sri Lanka), Konstantinos Kalantzis (Greece), Christopher Pinney (Bangladesh, India, and Nepal), Ileana L. Selejan (Nicaragua), and Sokphea Young (Cambodia).

The project is based in the Department of Anthropology at UCL and is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant no. 695283.

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