articles, essays and reports on photography and the visual economy
(with Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison), “Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Emotions,” in the Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics, edited by Jenny M. Lewis and Anne Tiernan (Oxford University Press, 2021).
“Famine,” in Visual Global Politics, edited by Roland Bleiker (Routledge, 2018), pp. 127-133.
“The Flood of Images and the Performance of Rights: The Changing Function of Photojournalism in the New Media Economy,” in The Flood of Rights, edited by Thomas Keenan, Suhail Malik, Tirdad Zolghadr (LUMA Foundation, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and Sternberg Press, 2017), pp. 51-68.
“How Photojournalism Has Framed the War in Afghanistan,” in In/Visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America, edited by Jon Simons and John Louis Lucaites (Rutgers University Press, 2017), pp. 27-47. [An earlier version appeared as “How Photojournalism Has Framed the War in Afghanistan,” in Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2011), pp. 153-155.]
(with Adrian Hadland and Paul Lambert), “The Future of Professional Photojournalism: Perceptions of Risk,” Journalism Practice, 10:7 (2016), pp.820-832.
(with Adrian Hadland and Paul Lambert), The State of News Photography: The Lives and Livelihoods of Photojournalists in the Digital Age (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2015).
“Securing the Credibility of Photojournalism: New Rules from World Press Photo,” LensCulture, 2015.
(with Emma Hutchison and Roland Bleiker), “Imaging Catastrophe: The Politics of Representing Humanitarian Crises,” in Negotiating Relief: The Politics of Humanitarian Space, edited by Michele Acuto (Hurst & Co Publishers, 2014), pp. 47-58.
(with Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison), “Visual Cultures of Inhospitality,” Peace Review, 26:2 (2014), pp. 192-200.
“The Myth of Compassion Fatigue,” in Photography and International Conflict, pp. edited by Liam Kennedy and Caitlin Patrick (I.B Tauris, 2014), pp. 97-124.
The Integrity of the Image (World Press Photo Foundation, 2014), 21 pages.
(with Roland Bleiker, Emma Hutchison, and Xzarina Nicholson), “The Visual Dehumanisation of Refugees,” Australian Journal of Political Science, 48:4 (2013), pp. 398-416.
“Afterword: Abundant Photography, Discursive Limits and the Work of Images,” in The Versatile Image: Photography, Digital Technologies and the Internet, edited by Alexandra Moschovi, Carol McKay and Arabella Plouviez (Leuven University Press, 2013).
“Satellite Images, Security and the Geopolitical Imagination,” in From Above: War, Violence and Verticality, edited by Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead and Alison J. Williams (London: Hurst and Company, 2013). [An earlier version of this essay was published in Source magazine.]
Visual Storytelling in the Age of Post-Industrial Journalism (World Press Photo Foundation, 2013), 66 pages.
“The Iconography of Famine,” in Picturing Atrocity: Reading Photographs in Crisis, edited by Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller, Jay Prosser (London: Reaktion Books, 2012).
“From Absence to Absence: The Visual Culture of The ‘War on Terror’,” e-IR, 9 November 2011.
(with Marcus Power) “The Scopic Regime of Africa,” in Observant States: Geopolitics And Visual Culture, edited by Fraser Macdonald, Klaus Dodds and Rachel Hughes (London: I.B. Tauris, 2010).
“‘Black Skin and Blood’: Documentary Photography and Santu Mofokeng’s Critique of the Visualization of Apartheid South Africa,” History and Theory 48 (4) 2009, 52-58.
“Constructed Visibility: Photographing the Catastrophe of Gaza,” (unpublished, 2009).
The Visual Economy of HIV/AIDS as a Security Issue, 135 pages, research report for the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative, May 2008.
“Beyond Image and Reality: Critique and Resistance in the Age of Spectacle,” Public Culture 20:3 (2008).
“Photojournalism: Living with Questions and Tensions,” FOTO8, March 2008.
“Geopolitics and Visual Culture: Sighting the Darfur Conflict 2003-05,” Political Geography 26: 4 (2007), 357-382.
(co-edited with Michael J. Shapiro), “Securitization, Militarization and Visual Culture in the Worlds of post-9/11,” a special issue of Security Dialogue, 38 (2) 2007.
(with D. J. Clark, Kate Manzo and Caitlin Patrick), Imaging Famine catalogue, 2005.
“Horrific Blindness: Images of Death in Contemporary Media,” Journal of Cultural Research 8:1 (2004), 55-74.
“Cultural Governance and Pictorial Resistance: Reflections on the Imaging of War,” Review of International Studies 29 Special Issue (2003), pp. 57-73.
“Representing Contemporary War,” Ethics and International Affairs 17 (2) 2003, pp. 99-108.
“Salgado and the Sahel: Documentary Photography and the Imaging of Famine,” in Rituals of Mediation: International Politics and Social Meaning, edited by Francois Debrix and Cindy Weber (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), pp. 69-96.
“Atrocity, Memory, Photography: Imaging the Concentration Camps of Bosnia -- The Case of ITN versus Living Marxism, Part I,” Journal of Human Rights 1:1 (2002), p. 1-33.
“Atrocity, Memory, Photography: Imaging the Concentration Camps of Bosnia -- The Case of ITN versus Living Marxism, Part II,” Journal of Human Rights 1:2 (2002), pp. 143-72.
Translated and published in Bosnia as “Zločin, Fotografija, Sjećanje: Prikazivanje Koncentracionih Logora U Bosni – Slučaj ITN-A Protiv Living Marxisma,” Forum Bosnae 18 (2002), pp. 381-469.
“Imaging the Real, Struggling for Meaning,” Infopeace, 6 October 2001, Information Technology, War and Peace Project, The Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.