David Campbell — Photography, Multimedia, Politics

Welcome to my site. Here you will find summaries of my work, details of my blog, videos to watch, papers to download, images to study and links to pursue.

I have three areas of interest – photography, multimedia and politics. I am particularly concerned with:

• how documentary photography, photojournalism and satellite imaging visually enact our world;
• how multimedia technologies are transforming the capacity of photography to tell stories about our hybrid world;
• how issues of identity and representation help structure international politics.

As professor of cultural and political geography at Durham University in the UK, I am associated with the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies. A full CV/resume is available here, and to find particular topics all the pages on this site can be searched via the box in the sidebar.

In a move from criticism to creative practice I have begun working as a multimedia producer. After training in Final Cut Pro, I collaborated with photographers Peter Fryer and Sharron Lovell to produce two films organised around still images. They tell the story of the Yemeni community in South Shields, and China’s internal migrant labourers. The Multimedia section outlines the importance of this approach for story telling, while The Boarding House and Living in the Shadows have their own pages that provides the background to, and links for, these films. I am currently planing some new projects with other photographers.

I write an occasional blog on this site that discusses events and issues related to my research interests in photography, multimedia, politics and the changing media economy, as well as reflections on higher education and the odd thought about sport. These posts can be searched via their tags — see the tag cloud at the bottom of the sidebar.

I also have a Twitter feed that covers these interests, especially the challenges for photojournalism in the new media economy.

Both the blog and feed contain my personal thoughts and do not reflect the views of any institutions I am associated with.

Please feel free to contribute, and to comment on any of the material presented here.

David Campbell,  March 2010

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Full citations for the articles available on this site can found in the complete publications list.