Marta Zarzycka
Biographic Data
| ID | 6211240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Zarzycka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Zarzycka |
| SIGNATURE | ZARZYCKA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-2416-1789 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Geographies of Hope
This article builds on the “geographies of hope” (Hazlewood et al., 2023) to better understand and address the gendered challenges posed by AI technologies in the Global South. AI-powered surveillance and technology-facilitated gender-based violence have reshaped digital geographies, leading to the rise of non-consensual synthetic intimate images—often called “deepfakes” or “deepfake pornography”—that disproportionately target women, LGBTQI+ comm…
Affective encounters
How do cultural, artistic, and media practices participate in the distribution of affects and feelings? How, as media participants, can we use these affects and feelings in strategies of persistenc
Save the child
The face of a child in need is a visual trope that is at the forefront of the politics of spectacle in emergency news and aid initiatives. Images of children’s faces work on both affective and ethical levels, appealing to compassion and to a discourse of universal human rights. Acknowledging both the cultural fascination with and distrust of images of children, this article focuses on the strategies of persuasion used by an international NGO Save…
Outside the Frame
Documentary photographs of war, violence, and death shape the way we think about loss. In this article, I engage with two widely disseminated images of mourning women, deployed to denote the ravages of war and disaster. I argue that the trope of a mourning woman, although undeniably affective, is deeply grounded in the cultural notion of melancholia. While acknowledging Freud's model and its contestations by queer and postcolonial activism, I fol…
War photography
Picturing Atrocity. Photography in Crisis
(2013). Picturing Atrocity. Photography in Crisis: Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller, and Jay Prosser (eds)/Human Rights in Camera: Sharon Sliwinski. Photography and Culture: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 117-121
Awards, archives, and affects
Photography contests have assumed an increasingly significant public role in the context of the global surge of mass-mediated war reporting. This study focuses on the recurrence of visual tropes in press photographs awarded in the annual contest World Press Photo (WPP) in the years 2009–11. By tropes, we mean conventions (e.g. a mourning woman, a civilian facing soldiers, a distressed witness to an atrocity) that remain unchanged despite their tr…
Madonnas of Warfare, Angels of Poverty
Press photography often reduces geopolitical conflicts from local or regional political disasters into isolated, simplified and safely communicable spectacles of atrocity. Images of non-Western women in particular regularly function as symbols of the degeneracy and hopelessness of the oppressed, obscuring social and political subjectivities. This article follows two case studies of press photographs portraying women, analysing gender as their key…
War in Silence
Research Article| July 01 2011 War in Silence?: Photographs, Sounds, and the Ethics of Reception Marta Zarzycka Marta Zarzycka MARTA ZARZYCKA is an assistant professor in the Gender Studies Department at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, where she teaches and publishes in the field of visual studies and feminist theory. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2011) 39 (1-2): 15–17. https://doi.or…
The Brave New World of Somatechnics
Now I Live on a Painful Planet’
I had a dream Frida Kahlo never existed. At least, not as a trademark, an image destined for public consumption. A dream about contemporary society without the Fridamania, Fridolatry, Fridaphilia
Save the child
The face of a child in need is a visual trope that is at the forefront of the politics of spectacle in emergency news and aid initiatives. Images of children’s faces work on both affective and ethical levels, appealing to compassion and to a discourse of universal human rights. Acknowledging both the cultural fascination with and distrust of images of children, this article focuses on the strategies of persuasion used by an international NGO Save…
Affective encounters
How do cultural, artistic, and media practices participate in the distribution of affects and feelings? How, as media participants, can we use these affects and feelings in strategies of persistenc
Awards, archives, and affects
Photography contests have assumed an increasingly significant public role in the context of the global surge of mass-mediated war reporting. This study focuses on the recurrence of visual tropes in press photographs awarded in the annual contest World Press Photo (WPP) in the years 2009–11. By tropes, we mean conventions (e.g. a mourning woman, a civilian facing soldiers, a distressed witness to an atrocity) that remain unchanged despite their tr…
Madonnas of Warfare, Angels of Poverty
Press photography often reduces geopolitical conflicts from local or regional political disasters into isolated, simplified and safely communicable spectacles of atrocity. Images of non-Western women in particular regularly function as symbols of the degeneracy and hopelessness of the oppressed, obscuring social and political subjectivities. This article follows two case studies of press photographs portraying women, analysing gender as their key…
The Brave New World of Somatechnics
Now I Live on a Painful Planet’
I had a dream Frida Kahlo never existed. At least, not as a trademark, an image destined for public consumption. A dream about contemporary society without the Fridamania, Fridolatry, Fridaphilia
War in Silence
Research Article| July 01 2011 War in Silence?: Photographs, Sounds, and the Ethics of Reception Marta Zarzycka Marta Zarzycka MARTA ZARZYCKA is an assistant professor in the Gender Studies Department at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, where she teaches and publishes in the field of visual studies and feminist theory. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2011) 39 (1-2): 15–17. https://doi.or…
The Brave New World of Somatechnics
Madonnas of Warfare, Angels of Poverty
Press photography often reduces geopolitical conflicts from local or regional political disasters into isolated, simplified and safely communicable spectacles of atrocity. Images of non-Western women in particular regularly function as symbols of the degeneracy and hopelessness of the oppressed, obscuring social and political subjectivities. This article follows two case studies of press photographs portraying women, analysing gender as their key…
War photography
Picturing Atrocity. Photography in Crisis
(2013). Picturing Atrocity. Photography in Crisis: Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller, and Jay Prosser (eds)/Human Rights in Camera: Sharon Sliwinski. Photography and Culture: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 117-121
Awards, archives, and affects
Photography contests have assumed an increasingly significant public role in the context of the global surge of mass-mediated war reporting. This study focuses on the recurrence of visual tropes in press photographs awarded in the annual contest World Press Photo (WPP) in the years 2009–11. By tropes, we mean conventions (e.g. a mourning woman, a civilian facing soldiers, a distressed witness to an atrocity) that remain unchanged despite their tr…
Outside the Frame
Documentary photographs of war, violence, and death shape the way we think about loss. In this article, I engage with two widely disseminated images of mourning women, deployed to denote the ravages of war and disaster. I argue that the trope of a mourning woman, although undeniably affective, is deeply grounded in the cultural notion of melancholia. While acknowledging Freud's model and its contestations by queer and postcolonial activism, I fol…
Save the child
The face of a child in need is a visual trope that is at the forefront of the politics of spectacle in emergency news and aid initiatives. Images of children’s faces work on both affective and ethical levels, appealing to compassion and to a discourse of universal human rights. Acknowledging both the cultural fascination with and distrust of images of children, this article focuses on the strategies of persuasion used by an international NGO Save…
Affective encounters
How do cultural, artistic, and media practices participate in the distribution of affects and feelings? How, as media participants, can we use these affects and feelings in strategies of persistenc
Geographies of Hope
This article builds on the “geographies of hope” (Hazlewood et al., 2023) to better understand and address the gendered challenges posed by AI technologies in the Global South. AI-powered surveillance and technology-facilitated gender-based violence have reshaped digital geographies, leading to the rise of non-consensual synthetic intimate images—often called “deepfakes” or “deepfake pornography”—that disproportionately target women, LGBTQI+ comm…
Art (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works)