spring 2024

Vol. 14, No. 1

“Photobook”: An Introduction

Yi Gu; Deepali Dewan

Articles

Unfolding Memory in Adil Hasan's When Abba Was Ill

Sreerupa Bhattacharya

Humanism in China (Zhongguo renben) and Recontextualizations of Chinese Documentary Photography

Bernd Spyra; Sanja Hilscher

Vengeance Aesthetics: Type in Records of the Japanese Army's Atrocities (1938)

Xinyue Lulu Yuan

reflection

Of Simple Cells and Visual Associations in Photobook Editing

Teun van der Heijden

translation

Sexual Politics: Photobooks by Japanese Women, 1976–79

Kasahara Michiko; Kelly Midori McCormick

Interview

Taking a Book for a Walk: A Conversation with Dayanita Singh

Daniel Boetker-Smith

reviews

Dayanita Singh's World of Books

Kim Sichel

Centralia by Poulomi Basu

Fiona Rogers

 

Open Access

Peer-Reviewed

biannual


Trans Asia Photography is an international refereed open access journal based at the University of Toronto. It provides a venue for the interdisciplinary exploration of photography and Asia. The journal examines all aspects of photographic history, theory and practice by centering images in or of Asia, conceived here as a territory, network, and cultural imaginary.  More


Editors

Deepali Dewan, Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto

Yi Gu, University of Toronto

Thy Phu, University of Toronto