Collaboration

’[An] excellent challenge to the “single creator” view of photography … The collection also astutely illustrates how photography — even when ostensibly deployed to oppress — can subtly critique power structures and dominant cultural narratives … Enriched by the volume’s incisive social commentary, these striking images leave a mark’ - Publishers Weekly‘A necessary book that forces readers to reconsider the very meaning of the word ‘by’ in the context of photography … This book isn’t just a thought-provoking presentation of projects that involve different forms of participation. Its pluralistic approach is a living, breathing reflection of the concept at its heart’ - Creative Review‘We get a fresh perspective every time we turn the page, a new set of ideas to consider and some specialist information on situations and subjects we may not have known anything about before … It took the collaborators a decade, the book says, and I can see why … an engaging, informative and thought-provoking collection of studies on the relationship between the people either side of the lens’ - Amateur Photography‘An extraordinary book … should inspire and provoke new discussions and lines of enquiry - indeed new ways of thinking - about the act of image-making and how we should understand the role of the photographer and the social dynamic within which they work’ - Photographica World‘Innovative, insightful’ - The Art Quarterly

Ariella Azoulay is a Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature at Brown University.

Wendy Ewald is a photographer who has collaborated on art projects with children, families, women and teachers for fifty years. She has published twelve books.

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos since 1976.

Leigh Raiford is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Laura Wexler is a Professor of American Studies, Film & Media Studies and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Yale University.