About
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 (1) how documentary photography, photojournalism and satellite imaging visually enact our world; (2) how multimedia technologies are transforming the capacity of photography to tell stories about our hybrid world; and (3) how issues of identity and representation help structure international politics. A full CV/resume is available here.
As professor of cultural and political geography at Durham University in the UK, I am associated with the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies. In 2009 I have a fellowship at Durham’s Institute for Advanced Study to work on photographs from the Sudan archive for my ‘Geopolitics and Visuality’ project.
I have also been learning new skills to make the move from criticism to creative practice. In collaboration with photographers Peter Fryer and Sharron Lovell I have produced two films organised around still images to 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 write an occasional blog on this site that discusses events and issues related to my research interests in photography, multimedia and politics, as well as reflections on higher education and the odd thought about sport.
I’ve also begun a Twitter feed — see the sidebar — that will cover 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, June 2009
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Full citations for the articles available on this site can found in the complete publications list.
FAIR USE NOTICE: Many images on this site have been purchased from copyright owners. However, this site also contains images and excerpts the use of which have not been pre-authorized. This material is made available for the purpose of analysis and critique, as well as to advance the understanding of photography, multimedia and politics. Images on this site are viewable for educational and intellectual purposes. If you are interested in using any copyrighted pictures from this site for any reason that goes beyond ‘fair use,’ you must first obtain permission from the copyright owner.