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Tanya Sheehan, ed.,\u00a0Photography and Migration <\/em><\/a>(London:\u00a0Routledge, 2018).<\/strong>\u00a0Written in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photography\u2019s long and complex relationship to human migration.<\/p>\n Photography and Migration<\/i>\u00a0places into conversation media images and other photographs that the contributors have witnessed, collected, or created through their diverse national, regional, and local contexts. Developed across thirteen chapters, this conversation encompasses images, histories, and testimonies offering analysis of new perspectives on photography and migration today.<\/p>\n Photography and Migration<\/a>, a series of essays by Tanya Sheehan published by Fotomuseum Winterthur’s Still Searching<\/em> blog, March-April 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n The photographic medium has played an important role in the movement of people, objects, identities, and ideas across time and space, especially in the human crossing of geographical and cultural borders. Scholars have shown how cameras documented, enabled, or controlled such forced or voluntary movements, while photographers have attempted to put a face on immigration around the world, making visible its associations with transition, displacement, hardship, and opportunity. In this blog series, Tanya Sheehan reflects on the relationship between photography and migration in the twenty-first century by considering photographs in the global migration crisis as well as within her own local, community interventions. Framing her discussion are keywords in photography and migration studies: diaspora, refugee, (im)mobility, and border.<\/p>\n IN THE NEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n Gerry Boyle interviews Tanya Sheehan<\/a>,\u00a0Colby Magazine<\/em>, Fall 2018<\/p>\n Photography and Migration Project Community Event Set<\/a>,\u00a0Morning Sentinel<\/em>, April 6, 2017<\/p>\n Colby College Student Showcases Antique Photos of Local Families<\/a>,\u00a0Morning Sentinel<\/em>, March 4, 2017<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/photomigration\/files\/2015\/05\/PM-cover-200x300.jpg\")
<\/a>While contemporary media images largely frame migration in terms of trauma, victimhood, and pity, so much more can be said of photography\u2019s role in the movement of people around the world. Cameras can document, enable, or control human movement across geographical, cultural, and political divides. Their operators put faces on forced and voluntary migrations, making visible hardships and suffering as well as opportunity and optimism. Photographers include migrating subjects who take pictures for their own consumption, not for international recognition. And photographs themselves migrate with their makers, subjects, and viewers, as the very concept of photography takes on new functions and meanings.<\/p>\n