Photography and Culture

Aims & Scope

Photography & Culture is a refereed journal that is international in its scope and interdisciplinary in its contributions.

It aims to interrogate the contextual and historic breadth of photographic practice from a range of informed perspectives and to encourage new insights into the media through original and incisive writing.

Photography & Culture publishes research papers, discursive critiques and reviews.

It appears at a key moment as photography evolves, once again, to embrace a technological change that is shifting both contemporary usage and historic understanding.

This journal quickly established itself as a leading platform for critical thinking on photography and as essential reading the world over for academics, curators and practitioners with a central and indeed tangential interest in the media.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.121

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	9

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	27202

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	18

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Photovoice: A Methodological Guide

  Citation: 282

  Authors: Camille A.

• Citizenship, Diaspora and the Bonds of Affect: The Passport Photograph

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Lily

• Against Photography: Susan Sontag's Vietnam

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Franny

• De Meyer at<i>Vogue</i>: Commercializing Queer Affect in First World War-era Fashion Photography

  Citation: 28

  Authors: Elspeth H.

• The Performative Force of Photography

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Laura

• Felt Surface, Visible Image: Lorna Simpson's Photography and the Embodiment of Appearance

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Brooke

• Sontag's Lament: Emotion, Ethics, and Photography

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Sarah

• Between Manufacturing and Landscapes: Edward Burtynsky and the Photography of Ecology

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Joshua

• Photographic Flashes: On Imaging Trans Violence in Heather Cassils' Durational Art

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Eliza

• A Rupture in the Field of Representation: Animals, Photography and Affect

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Matthew

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