{"id":6402,"date":"2023-06-15T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T08:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:46:14","slug":"sixth-issue-of-sources-materials-fieldwork-in-african-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/uncategorized\/sixth-issue-of-sources-materials-fieldwork-in-african-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources. Materials &amp; Fieldwork in African Studies, N\u00b06 &#8220;Photos &amp; Photographers&#8221; (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sources-photos-770x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6408\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[<em>English version below<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qu\u2019est-ce que les photographes et leurs images donnent \u00e0 voir des Afriques ? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sources-journal.org\/1098\">num\u00e9ro sp\u00e9cial<\/a> invite \u00e0 analyser les repr\u00e9sentations du monde social que produisent et diffusent des photographes, professionnel\u00b7le\u00b7s ou amateur\u00b7rice\u2219s, chercheur\u00b7e\u00b7s ou non, africain\u00b7e\u00b7s ou non. Les articles pr\u00e9sentent de nombreuses photographies, t\u00e9moignant de l\u2019anciennet\u00e9 de cette pratique comme de sa vitalit\u00e9 contemporaine. Ils interrogent ce qui est montr\u00e9, ce qui est montrable, mais aussi les images qui ne sont pas ou plus l\u00e0. Interroger l\u2019absence d\u2019images invite \u00e0 saisir l\u2019ensemble du processus photographique depuis la prise de vue jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la diffusion. Il s\u2019agit donc de d\u00e9chiffrer \u00e0 la fois les photographies elles-m\u00eames, mais aussi les diff\u00e9rentes interactions qui ont permis leur production, leur reproduction ou au contraire leur disparition. Les articles dessinent ainsi en filigrane l\u2019aire du photographiable africain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ce num\u00e9ro interroge d\u2019une mani\u00e8re r\u00e9flexive des d\u00e9marches de recherche qui utilisent la photographie comme \u00ab m\u00e9dium d\u2019expression du sensible \u00bb, en entendant dans le \u00ab sensible \u00bb aussi bien ce qui est difficile, d\u00e9licat (comme dans les \u00ab terrains sensibles \u00bb), que ce qui est charg\u00e9 d\u2019affects. \u00c0 l\u2019intersection d\u2019un travail \u00ab avec \u00bb, \u00ab sur \u00bb ou \u00ab en \u00bb image, il s\u2019agit au final de d\u00e9fendre la photographie comme une m\u00e9thode \u00e0 part enti\u00e8re de la recherche. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bonne lecture !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do photographers and their pictures show about Africa? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sources-journal.org\/1098\">special issue<\/a> aims to analyse the social representations produced and disseminated by photographers, whether professionals or amateurs, researchers or not, African or not. The articles present numerous photographs, reflecting the longstanding nature of this practice as well as its contemporary vitality. The authors consider what is shown, what can be shown, but also the images that are not there or are no longer there. Examining the absence of images invites us to grasp the entire photographic process, from shooting to distribution. The aim is to unravel not only the photographs themselves, but also the various interactions that led to their production, reproduction or disappearance. In this way, the articles sketch out the area of the photographable in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, this issue takes a reflexive look at research approaches that use photography as a \u201cmedium for expressing the sensitive,\u201d understanding \u201csensitive\u201d to mean both what is mediated by our senses (as in a \u201csensory\u201d approach for example) but also sensitive as that which requires a particular care and tact, that which is affectively charged. At the intersection of working \u201cwith,\u201d \u201con\u201d and \u201cin\u201d images, the aim is to defend photography as a research method in its own right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjoy your reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[English version below] Qu\u2019est-ce que les photographes et leurs images donnent \u00e0 voir des Afriques ? Ce num\u00e9ro sp\u00e9cial invite \u00e0 analyser les repr\u00e9sentations du monde social que produisent et diffusent des photographes, professionnel\u00b7le\u00b7s ou amateur\u00b7rice\u2219s, chercheur\u00b7e\u00b7s ou non, africain\u00b7e\u00b7s ou non. Les articles pr\u00e9sentent de nombreuses photographies, t\u00e9moignant de l\u2019anciennet\u00e9 de cette pratique comme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,16,36,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-publications","category-sources-materials-fieldwork-in-african-studies","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8268,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions\/8268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}