David Campbell /

David Campbell is Professor of Cultural and Political Geography at Durham University, U.K., where he is associated with the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies (http://www.dur.ac.uk/dcaps/). With a PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University, he has worked previously in Australia and the US, most notably in the Australian Senate and at Johns Hopkins University.

David has three areas of interest – photography, multimedia and politics – and is especially concerned with the way documentary photography, photojournalism and satellite imaging visually enact our world, and how multimedia technologies are transforming the capacity of photography to tell stories about our hybrid world. He has researched and curated three large visual projects (Atrocity, Memory, Photography, http://www.david-campbell.org/photography/atrocity-and-memory/; Imaging Famine, www.imaging-famine.org; and the Visual Economy of HIV-AIDS, www.visual-hivaids.org) and gave the 2005 Sem Presser Lecture to the World Press Photo awards.

The author and editor of six books and some 50 academic articles and essays, David has recently made a move from criticism to creative practice and begun working as a multimedia producer, collaborating with photographers Peter Fryer and Sharron Lovell to produce two multimedia pieces on the story of the Yemeni community in South Shields, and China’s internal migrant labourers.

David writes an occasional blog that discusses events and issues related to his interests in photography, multimedia, politics and the changing media economy, as well as reflections on higher education and the odd thought about sport. He also has a Twitter feed that covers these interests, especially the challenges for photojournalism in the new media economy.

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Contributions

Revolutions in the media economy (5) – the pay wall folly for photographers

Revolutions in the media economy (4) – disturbing the university

Revolutions in the media economy (3) – photojournalism’s futures

Revolutions in the media economy (2) – the changing structure of information

Revolutions in the media economy (1) – the context of crisis

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