Visual Culture Blog

Visual Culture Blog by Marco Bohr

As he reached the finishing line of doing a PhD in Photography and Visual Culture at the University of Westminster in October 2010, photographer Marco Bohr began the Visual Culture Blog to vent some ideas that didn’t fit into his thesis. His research in visual culture is concerned with a new generation of photographers emerging in parallel to an economic, political and social shift in Japan during the 1990s. Born and raised in Germany, studying photography in Canada, living in Japan, and continuing postgraduate studies in the UK, Marco hopes to bring an international perspective to the study of visual culture(s). His essay ‘Photography and Metaphors’ will appear in a Visual Culture Reader edited by James Elkins and published by Routlede in 2011. Marco is a guest lecturer in the Visual Sociology department at Goldsmiths, and the Photography departments at University of Westminster and University of Plymouth. Marco is a member of the International Association for Visual Culture Studies.

Website: www.macobo.com