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 …

Perception: the Analogue, the Digital and the Eye

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I am re-visiting a brief conversation that I had last module with Stella Baraklianou, driven by a certain deja-vu in a couple of books I am reading, as part of this module. This post revolves around the distinction between the analogue and the digital in photography, and how that impacts our view of the medium as indexical and representational. Rubinstein …