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Dr. Andrew Fisher

KWI Fellow

Academic Career

2019 – 2024

  • Research Fellow, FAMU, Photgraphy Department of the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague

2008 – 2018

  • Lecturer in Visual Cultures, Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, University of London

2010 – present

  • Founding editor of Philosophy of Photography, a peer-reviewed journal of contemporary photography theory and criticism

2002 – 2007

  • PhD Fine Art / Art Theory, Slade School of Art, University College London

1998 – 2001

  • Education Coordinator / Head of Education, Serpentine Gallery, London


Research Interests

  • Photography history and theory

  • Critical photographic practices

  • Emerging imaging technologies

  • Philosophical / phenomenological aesthetics

  • Theories of scale and sequence


Publications (Selection)

  • 2024, Expanded visualities: Photography and emerging technologies, (Journal special issue co-edited with Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Kleanthis Neokleous ), Philosophy of Photography, vol. 15, nos. 1&2.

  • 2021, “Three Scale Models for a Photographic World: Benjamin, constellation, image and scale”, in Philosophy of Photography, vol. 11, nos. 1&2.

  • 2021, “Living With the Excessive Scale of Contemporary Photography”, in Photography Off the Scale, Tomáš Dvořák & Jussi Parikka (eds.), Edinburgh University Press.

  • 2021, “Четыре эпизода из жизни феноменологического и революционного института” (Four episodes of phenomenological and revolutionary institution), in GAKhN Displaced, Anke Hennig (trans.), Anke Hennig & Nikita Sazonov (eds.), Kronos Publishers, Moscow.

  • 2020, “Der fotografische Maßstab”, in Ästhetik der Skalierung, Sonderheft 18, Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Carlos Spoerhase, Steffen Siegel & Nikolaus Wegmann (eds.), Hamburg, Felix Meiner Verlag.