‘ACADEMIC WRITING IN AN ERA OF CHANGE’ REPORT FROM SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION PANEL (DAVID BATE, ERINA DUGANNE, MARTIN HAND, LIZ WELLS), ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA, MARCH 2024

Abstract

What kind of writing, criticism and photography theory is needed today? Photographies, since 2008 the leading UK-based theory journal, includes research articles, practice-led photo-essays, and critical debates. Journal editors curate diverse articles to cluster papers that inter-relate. Yet readers search online for single articles or named authors. Should we envisage a future within which editors are redundant? In addition, use of artificial intelligence in partially or entirely generating submissions begs questions relating to anonymous peer review principles but may also herald experiments in generative practices, perhaps in the form of ‘live’ authorial content synthesized with AI contributions.