British Journal of Photography
Issue 7924
Body Talk
1854
English
Edited by Diane Smyth
Softcover
194 pages
232 x 302 mm
2025
ISSN 9770007119142
In Body Talk, the latest issue of British Journal of Photography, we explore how images of the body – particularly those that depict love, desire, and obsession – challenge what Martin Jay called the “disinterested gaze”.
The answers, like love itself, are never simple. Diego Moreno’s deeply personal portraits merge sacred imagery with erotic encounters, seeking reconciliation between body and soul while archivist Stefan Dickers reconsiders pornography and kink as social history. Hoda Afshar traces fixation through a colonial archive; Andi Galdí Vinkó exposes what science omits from its depiction of the body; and Mark Sealy envisions a liberatory photographic future that resists the violence of observation. But artists Alba Zari and Amandine Kuhlmann reflect on the objectification embedded even in self-representation.
Body Talk also features our regular Agenda, Projects, and Intelligence sections. Highlights include the first Italian exhibition dedicated to the HIV-AIDS crisis (1982–96), Alejandro Cartagena’s major retrospective at SFMoMA, and the V&A Photography Centre’s first complete rehang. Plus, insights from Joumana El Zein Khoury, Executive Director of World Press Photo, and a spotlight on Takuma Nakahira’s radical photo theory.
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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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