Vision
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. Bridging photography and area studies, the journal contributes to the study of photography and its histories by rethinking transnational and transcultural approaches and methodologies. By focusing on photographic practices beyond Euro-American frameworks, the journal foregrounds different ways of seeing and knowing as a way to advance new understandings of photography.
Trans Asia Photography is a journal that promotes scholarship at the intersections of several multidisciplinary fields, encompassing photography studies, Asian Studies, transpacific critique, visual studies, art history, diaspora studies, cultural studies, history, and history of photography, among others.
history
Trans Asia Photography was founded in 2010 by Sandra Matthews as Trans Asia Photography Review, an international refereed journal devoted to the discussion of historic and contemporary photography from Asia. Established when the study of photography from Asia was still in its early stages, it aimed to bring together the perspectives of curators, historians, photographers, anthropologists, art historians and others in an effort to investigate photography from Asia as fully as possible and to encourage quality, depth and breadth in the field’s development. From the beginning, it was conceived as an online resource where readers from anywhere can read about previously unknown histories of photography, engage with new ways of thinking about past and present photographic work, see photographs that otherwise would be unavailable to them, and learn about relevant books, archives and symposia.
From Spring 2021, the journal was renamed Trans Asia Photography under the co-editorship of Deepali Dewan, Yi Gu, and Thy Phu and relaunched with a new website. Its editors and operations are based at the University of Toronto. From 2010-2021, TAP was published by University of Michigan Press and copyright was held by Hampshire College. From 2022 onwards, publication, copyright and ownership of TAP is with Duke University Press.
copyright information
Trans Asia Photography (TAP), formerly the Trans Asia Photography Review, is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the reader or their institution.
Copyright is held by its publisher, Duke University Press, while copyright to individual articles appearing in TAP remains with the article's author(s), unless otherwise specified. Articles are published under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-ND) and are open immediately upon publication. Authors are not charged any fees for publication and retain copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions in their articles. Readers may use the full text of articles as described in the license.
Neither the editors nor members of the editorial board assume responsibility for the views of individual contributors as expressed in articles, reviews, curatorial projects or any other contributions published in TAP.
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