Aims & Scope

CPR publishes research that advances understanding of photography through critical, historical, theoretical, technical, ethical or practice-led inquiry.

Scope

  • Contemporary and historical photographic practice
  • Documentary, editorial and photojournalistic photography
  • Fine-art, conceptual and experimental photography
  • Portraiture, landscape, architecture and the built environment
  • Photography, identity, memory and visual culture
  • Community, participatory and socially engaged practice
  • Photographic archives, collections and conservation
  • Camera, lens, sensor, printing and imaging technologies
  • Digital editing, computational photography and synthetic images
  • Circulation, publishing, exhibitions and online platforms
  • Image ethics, law, evidence and public trust
  • Photography education and professional practice

Portfolio displays, promotional project descriptions or image sets without a clear method, argument and wider contribution are outside scope.