Introduction to Current Research Projects
Visualising Humanitarian Crises: Transforming Images and Aid Policy
This project, funded by a Linkage Grant from the Australian Research Council, aims to draw on the power of images to transform practices of aid. We seek to develop new photographic practices that depict humanitarian crises in ways that encourage compassion for victims without entrenching problematic stereotypes. The project involves eight Chief Investigators; four prominent Partner Organisations; and over a dozen Ph.D. students, research officers and affiliated researchers and photographers.
Emotions and World Politics
This project, conducted with my long-term collaborator and wife Emma Hutchison, deals with emotions and world politics. We build on two decades of joint-research to develop a number of new projects, including a planned book on emotions and power.
Security and Visuality and in Korea
This project, funded by a grant from the Academy of Korean Studies, aims to offer new insights into security politics and policies in Northeast Asia by employing innovative visual methods. I draw on my involvement with Korea over four decades, and on my own photographs in North and South Korea, to reflect on how viewing security is an inherently political process with significant consequences.
