Visual Spaces of Change: Unveiling the Publicness of Urban Space through Photography and Image
ISSN: 2183-8976
The 4th number of Sophia Journal, titled Visual Spaces of Change: Unveiling the Publicness of Urban Space through Photography and Image, is dedicated to the International Conference ON THE SURFACE: Photography and Architecture - Visual Spaces of Change: Unveiling the Publicness of Urban Space that took place in the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) on the 31st of May, 2019. We were especially interested in articles that investigate how contemporary photography can be explored as a meaningful instrument of research about contemporary processes of urban change, producing visual synthesis about how architectures, places and spaces are used and lived, rendering visible aspects which are difficult to perceive without the purposeful use of image and photography. This means, besides other things, to inquire and study the possibilities offered by photography in various dimensions, oscillating between reality, poetry and utopia, creatively introducing new links between realistic representations, fictional worlds and symbolic meanings, articulated in conceptual discourses and visual narratives that are communicated through the specific grammar and syntax of photographic image.
Sophia Journal #4 is published by scopio Editions and will be out soon.