Over Journal Issue 4

OVER Journal provides a uniquely wholesome look at art practices, bringing together the work and ideas of artists, researchers, and writers into a one-of-a-kind publication focused on Photography and Visual Culture. It navigates the reader from a text rich section with a variety of notable reflections, to a selection of photographic works, all representing the diversity of approaches that constitutes contemporary practices.

With issue 4, OVER Journal continues to foster critical conversations around contemporary photographic practices. With contributions from artists and writers spanning six continents, the issue explores themes around representation and the evolving role of the image in shaping history and identity, articulating new representations that challenge historical legacies. Featured works include a range of topics investigating representation, from Basil Al-Rawi’s challenge of the narrative representation of Iraq and its diaspora to Tashiya de Mel’s investigation into visual history of Dutch colonisation in Sri Lanka; from Marianne Keating’s work on shared colonial and revolutionary histories of lands to Jakob Ganslmeier and Ana Zibelnik’s analysis of extremist visual language online, and from Morganna Magee’s research into the historical representation of the kangaroo providing a framework by which we can assess the treatment and narrative building on non-white bodies in visual history to Liss Fenwick’s interrogation of historical and ongoing impacts of extractive colonialist practices in Australia's Northern Territory. Issue 4 offers these and much more to excite and inspire the reader.

Featured Writers
Laura Carbonell, Richard Conway, Sharbendu De, Tashiya de Mel, Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, Aidan Kelly Murphy, Laila Lund Altinbas, Morganna Magee, Ruairí McCann, Rehan Miskci, Nora O Murchú, Andrea Stultiens.

Featured Artists
Basil Al-Rawi, Alan Butler, Simone C. Niquille, Tashiya de Mel, Imane Djamil, Liss Fenwick, Jakob Ganslmeier, Souheila Ghorbel, Yasmine Hatimi, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, Amina Kadous, Marianne Keating, Ayoung Kim, Seif Kousmate, Jennifer Mehigan, Hashim Nasr, Alex Prager, Felipe Romero Beltrán, Zohra Serri, Abdo Shanan, Aaryan Sinha, Inuuteq Storch, Rebecca Topakian, Ana Zibelnik.

Cover Image
Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan, Still from Uncensored Lilac (2024). All Rights Reserved.