50th Anniversary of Edward Relph’s ‘Place & Placelessness’

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I was very pleased to have been invited by David Seamon to contribute a photographic perspective for the 100th edition of the journal ‘Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology‘. Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology (EAP) has been the principal English-language home for phenomenology of place for thirty-five years. The just-published 100th issue (Vol. 37 No. 2, Summer/Fall 2026) has a special section marking …

Ethics of Documentary – Side Gallery

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The Amber Collective / Side Gallery has been running a short Zoom series on ethics, and I thought yesterday’s session was particularly good, especially with the contributions of Mark Sealy. Here are a few notes. Introductory comments: Mark Sealy. Decolonisation means opening the door to new epistemes, and breaking photography free of its ‘white Eurocentric’ past. Carol McKay. We must …