Journal of Visual Culture

Journal of Visual Culture is an international refereed journal that welcomes compelling, critically engaged contributions that explore and expand trans-disciplinary global visual cultures.

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Nothing more than a passport
BodiesInstitutionsTechnologies
Nothing more than a passport
A personal reflection on how identity, migration, and bureaucracy intersect visually through the seemingly simple object of a passport.
By Paula Sikta Maciñeiras Serrano
Constellating Eastern Europe and the Middle East
CommunitiesEcologiesInfrastructures
Constellating Eastern Europe and the Middle East
Two series of landscape images shaped by seemingly discrete historical events from Lithuanian and Palestinian contexts offer hopeful glimpses of futures interconnected.
By Marija Nemčenko Aržanych
More than ever do we need to think
CommunitiesEcologiesInstitutions
More than ever do we need to think
—on planetary inseparability, the abolition of all political parties (à la Simone Weil) and today's visual culture that is born of oppression.
By Yve Lomax
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January 15, 2025
Øyvind Vågnes obituary
By Asbjørn Grønstad
October 1, 2024
Call for contributors
The Journal of Visual Culture (JVC) is inviting contributions to its upcoming open issues and its online magazine.
By JVC Editorial Collective
July 1, 2022
IAVC / JVC Early Career Researcher Prize CFP
The International Association for Visual Culture and the Journal of Visual Culture invite submissions for the Early Career Researcher Prize. Current doctoral students and recent PhDs (within 5 years of degree) may submit original, unpublished essays on any topic related to visual culture. The prize-winning essay/s will be considered for publication in the journal, pending revisions advised by the committee and the journal’s editorial collective.
By JVC Editorial Collective