Gary Bratchford
Biographic Data
| ID | 602548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Bratchford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Bratchford |
| SIGNATURE | BRATCHFORD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5889-8712 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New ways of seeing? A reflexive case study on the possibilities of teaching verticality and aerial vision through participatory balloon photography
Thinking about the special issue as a scholarly format
An Invitation to Participate – 24 years of Visual Culture In Britain
Dear Contributors:December 2024In 2000, Professor Ysanne Holt (University of Northumbria) set out to establish a journal that sought to ‘produce a stimulating, lively dialogue about the changing ro
Years of Visual Culture in Britain: The Relaunch Issue
The twenty-four-year history of Visual Culture in Britain has coincided with numerous transformations to the economic, social and political conditions under which our intellectual labour takes plac
What We See When Invited To Look Differently: Critical Reflections On Socially Engaged Photography
This in-conversation text is the result of multiple exchanges around different projects and contexts of practice undertaken by Anthony Luvera over the course of his career. Driven by a desire to explore Socially Engaged Photography (SEP) within an expanded critical framework, Gary Bratchford and Anthony Luvera discuss the logics of neoliberalism; representational responsibility; the use of data as a mode of address in the context of SEP; the poli…
Imagining the city
Vision and Verticality: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Vision and Verticality: A Sociology of the Sky
Visual Studies X The Open Eye Gallery: Interview with Open Eye Director Sarah Fisher and Curator Mariama Attah
The Open Eye Gallery’s LOOK Climate Lab 2022 involved a series of research projects exploring ecology and climate change in partnership with Visual Studies Journal. These projects feature in this issue of the journal as visual essays and articles, and were also installed in the gallery space as part of the LOOK Climate Lab
Questionnaire: Visual studies now
Coda: Visual studies now
The intention of this critical project is to foster a conversation that foregrounds, and builds from, the complexities of interdisciplinary collaboration, its strengths and weaknesses, contributions and gaps. Our aim is to provide an international forum for the development of visual research; provoke more acceptance, understanding and discussion of a wide range of methods, approaches, theories and paradigms that constitute image-based research; r…
The citizen drone: Protest, sousveillance and droneviewing
In this article we will discuss the use of drones, as well as the visual simulation of drone afforded aesthetics, by activists, artists and protesters. We use the existing literature of surveillance studies and visual studies to examine how exactly a drone-afforded visibility emerges and how it mediates the visibility of a particular community or space of contention. We draw on the concepts of “surveillance capacities” and (counter) visibility pr…
Aerial visibilities: Towards a visual sociology of the sky
For many people, watching the sky, even if only momentarily, is an act of escapism, absorption and fantasy flow. We gaze at the stars or track a passing satellite; some of us even travel, recreatio
Constructing the ‘Right Image’: Visibility Management and the Palestinian Village of Susiya
This article focuses on the Palestinian Bedouin village of Susiya in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the multi-agency efforts to save the village after the Israeli Civil Administration issued a full demolition order to all existing structures in 2012. By analysing a range of creative visual responses to the demolition order, including social media campaigns and video appeals, the paper examines the problematic nature ove…
Visualising the invisible: A guided walk around the Pendleton Housing Estate, Salford, UK
A visual essay and short reflective text that works in response to the images within, and the experiences felt, as I was taken on a gentrification walk of a deprived council estate on the edge of Salford, in the North West of England. Split into two sections, the writing is a response to four photographs taken while guides, John van Aitken and Jane Brake of the Institute of Urban Dreaming, highlighted the manufacturing of precarity and engineered…
Visualizing a society on the brink: Gaza and Hebron
This article begins with Operation Protective Edge, the Israeli military operation against Gaza during the summer months of 2014. This article examines the Israeli use of language and the emphasis on terror, trauma and victimhood as vehicles upon which to mobilize and justify its multi-narrative, collective punishment of the Palestinian. I will identify how this use of language helps to frame Israel’s actions as democratic by acting in defence, a…
Visualizing a society on the brink: Gaza and Hebron
This article begins with Operation Protective Edge, the Israeli military operation against Gaza during the summer months of 2014. This article examines the Israeli use of language and the emphasis on terror, trauma and victimhood as vehicles upon which to mobilize and justify its multi-narrative, collective punishment of the Palestinian. I will identify how this use of language helps to frame Israel’s actions as democratic by acting in defence, a…
Visualizing a society on the brink: Gaza and Hebron
This article begins with Operation Protective Edge, the Israeli military operation against Gaza during the summer months of 2014. This article examines the Israeli use of language and the emphasis on terror, trauma and victimhood as vehicles upon which to mobilize and justify its multi-narrative, collective punishment of the Palestinian. I will identify how this use of language helps to frame Israel’s actions as democratic by acting in defence, a…
Constructing the ‘Right Image’: Visibility Management and the Palestinian Village of Susiya
This article focuses on the Palestinian Bedouin village of Susiya in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the multi-agency efforts to save the village after the Israeli Civil Administration issued a full demolition order to all existing structures in 2012. By analysing a range of creative visual responses to the demolition order, including social media campaigns and video appeals, the paper examines the problematic nature ove…
Visualising the invisible: A guided walk around the Pendleton Housing Estate, Salford, UK
A visual essay and short reflective text that works in response to the images within, and the experiences felt, as I was taken on a gentrification walk of a deprived council estate on the edge of Salford, in the North West of England. Split into two sections, the writing is a response to four photographs taken while guides, John van Aitken and Jane Brake of the Institute of Urban Dreaming, highlighted the manufacturing of precarity and engineered…
The citizen drone: Protest, sousveillance and droneviewing
In this article we will discuss the use of drones, as well as the visual simulation of drone afforded aesthetics, by activists, artists and protesters. We use the existing literature of surveillance studies and visual studies to examine how exactly a drone-afforded visibility emerges and how it mediates the visibility of a particular community or space of contention. We draw on the concepts of “surveillance capacities” and (counter) visibility pr…
Aerial visibilities: Towards a visual sociology of the sky
For many people, watching the sky, even if only momentarily, is an act of escapism, absorption and fantasy flow. We gaze at the stars or track a passing satellite; some of us even travel, recreatio
Questionnaire: Visual studies now
Coda: Visual studies now
The intention of this critical project is to foster a conversation that foregrounds, and builds from, the complexities of interdisciplinary collaboration, its strengths and weaknesses, contributions and gaps. Our aim is to provide an international forum for the development of visual research; provoke more acceptance, understanding and discussion of a wide range of methods, approaches, theories and paradigms that constitute image-based research; r…
Visual Studies X The Open Eye Gallery: Interview with Open Eye Director Sarah Fisher and Curator Mariama Attah
The Open Eye Gallery’s LOOK Climate Lab 2022 involved a series of research projects exploring ecology and climate change in partnership with Visual Studies Journal. These projects feature in this issue of the journal as visual essays and articles, and were also installed in the gallery space as part of the LOOK Climate Lab
Vision and Verticality: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Vision and Verticality: A Sociology of the Sky
An Invitation to Participate – 24 years of Visual Culture In Britain
Dear Contributors:December 2024In 2000, Professor Ysanne Holt (University of Northumbria) set out to establish a journal that sought to ‘produce a stimulating, lively dialogue about the changing ro
Years of Visual Culture in Britain: The Relaunch Issue
The twenty-four-year history of Visual Culture in Britain has coincided with numerous transformations to the economic, social and political conditions under which our intellectual labour takes plac
What We See When Invited To Look Differently: Critical Reflections On Socially Engaged Photography
This in-conversation text is the result of multiple exchanges around different projects and contexts of practice undertaken by Anthony Luvera over the course of his career. Driven by a desire to explore Socially Engaged Photography (SEP) within an expanded critical framework, Gary Bratchford and Anthony Luvera discuss the logics of neoliberalism; representational responsibility; the use of data as a mode of address in the context of SEP; the poli…
Imagining the city
Thinking about the special issue as a scholarly format
New ways of seeing? A reflexive case study on the possibilities of teaching verticality and aerial vision through participatory balloon photography
Art (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Visual arts (9 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (8 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works)