British Journal of Photography
Issue 7923
Maps
1854
English
Edited by Diane Smyth
Softcover
194 pages
232 x 302 mm
2025
ISSN 9770007119142
What do we really see when we look at a map? In Maps, the latest issue of British Journal of Photography, we explore how photography both documents and distorts the world, revealing the slippery boundary between representation and reality. Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s imaginary 1:1 map, Borges’ allegory of decay, and Baudrillard’s prophetic vision of the hyperreal, this issue asks: where does the map end and the territory begin? Featuring Zofia Rydet’s exhaustive portrait of Poland, Edmund Clark and Crofton Black’s forensic mapping of military spending and Elsa Leydier’s eco-feminist deconstruction of the photographic gaze, Maps confronts the impossibility of total understanding in a world of fragments. As Black puts it: “How do you know the parts if you can’t know the whole?” We also look forward to, for example, coverage of the 2024 Daegu Photo Biennale’s post-anthropocentric vision. In a world where Google’s cameras map every street and satellite images stand in for truth, Maps invites you to question not only what you see, but who decides what’s visible.
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About the Magazine
British Journal of Photography is a photography magazine that includes in-depth articles, profiles of photographers, analyses, and technological reviews. The magazine was established in Liverpool as the Liverpool Photographic Journal in 1854, with its first issue appearing on 14 January 1854, making it the United Kingdom’s second-oldest photographic title after the Photographic Journal. It was printed monthly until 1857, when it became the Liverpool and Manchester Photographic Journal, published bi-weekly, then the Photographic Journal from 1859 to 1860, when it obtained its present name. The magazine moved to London in 1864, first to Covent Garden; then in 2007 to Soho; and in 2013 to Shoreditch; then in 2017 to East India Dock. It was published weekly from 1864 to March 2010, then reverted to its original monthly period. It is now also available as an electronic magazine, online, and in iPad and iPhone formats.
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About the Publisher
1854 Media publish the British Journal of Photography. They are an award-winning photography publication house.
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