CFP – Liberation (Membrana Journal of Photography)

CFP Liberation


Humanities, Literature & Arts (General) Visual Arts



Membrana vol. 6, no. 1 (Liberation) invites proposals of manuscripts and visual projects that address photography through the ideas of liberation and independence of various social formations. We are interested in engaging with submissions that consider the oppression of the dominant powers and/or in precarious relation to them through (but not limited to) the following perspectives: 




  • Politics and aesthetics of power – photography in narratives and counter-narratives, publics and counterpublics, propaganda and vernacular expression

  • Liberation, emancipation struggles, and photography

  • Acts of liberation, emancipation, insurgency, guerrilla warfare, and terrorism – and photography

  • Authority of photography – liberation and the evocative power of photography

  • The formation of historical memory – icons, symbols, ruins, and traces –

  • Propaganda, agitation, civic responsibility – oppressive, liberating, and redemptive visions of photography

  • Re-appropriation of images – images as plastic resources for communicative action, reconceptualising past and present, building coalitions, contesting hegemony,

  • Historization of photography – museums, galleries, and actualization of political optics and networks through photography archives

  • National, ethnic, class, and other identitarian liberation movements through photography

  • Anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism – liberation movements and their contemporary resonance and actuality

  • Photography for community, local history, civic responsibility – education for emancipation and solidarity

  • Artistic practices – reinterpretation of photography as a documentary and artistic medium in the context of liberatory struggle

  • Civic memorials, vernacular displays, and liberation movements




  • Social media image propagation, liberatory and reactionary practices, and contemporary movements

  • Visual tropes of liberation, independence, and emancipation

  • Fragments and trivia: photography’s connections between everyday life and historical movements

  • Contested images and contested history – actuality, censorship, and control

  • Violence and violence of photography – liberation, justification, and redemption

  • Working movement struggles and social liberation

  • Deep-fakes, propaganda, and social struggle imaginaries – reality, fact, and fiction

  • Photography in new media arts and advocacy: changes in representation, circulation, and response

  • Photographic exhibitions and movement advocacy



FORMAT OF CONTRIBUTIONS




  • Essays, theoretical papers, overview articles, interviews (approx. 15,000–35,000 characters / 2,200–5,000 words), visuals encouraged.

  • Short essays, columns (8,000–21,000 characters / 1,200–3,000 words), visuals encouraged.

  • Photographic projects and artwork: proposals for non-commissioned work or samples of work.



More information about the contributions and be found on our website. The contributions will be published in the English edition – magazine Membrana (ISSN 2463-8501. eISSN: 2712-4894) and/or in the Slovenian edition – magazine Fotografija (ISSN 1408-3566).



PROPOSALS AND DEADLINES



The deadline for contribution proposals (150-word abstracts and/or visuals) is May 31, 2021 (extended to June 11, 2021). The deadline for the finished contributions from accepted proposals is August 9, 2021 (extended to August 16, 2021) Please send proposals via the online form or contact us directly at editors(at)membrana.org.