Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University (NL). His recent books are 'Virtual Photography' (co-edited 2024), 'Psychosomatic Imagery' (co-edited 2023), 'Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography' (monograph 2021), and 'Animation and Memory' (co-edited 2020).

• Contents Introduction Chapter One. The Photographer: A Corporeal Place in the Phenomenal World - Going for a Walk with a Lived Body - Inhabiting the World as a “lived place” - Confrontational Aesthetics of Corporeality Chapter Two. The Camera: A Place That Spatialises Time and Temporalises Space - Seeing through the Camera - An Apparatus that Lies in Wait 40The Black Box of Contingency Chapter Three. The Photograph: A Place That Lacks Its Own Emplacement - Never in a Single Location - A Placeless Place Sailing Across Different Spaces - The Vagabond Locomotion of Photographs Chapter Four. Photographic Place: Looking at the Photographic Image from Its Edge - Specificities of the Photographic Frame - Photographic Place in a Maximised Blind Field - Photographic Place in a Minimised Blind Field - Liminality of the Photographic Place Chapter Five. The Spectator: A Place That Is Sempiternally Taking Place - Place as a State of Being - “The event of photography” 98The Evental Place of Photography Chapter Six. The Genre: The Aftermath of Place - Landscape and the Agency of Place - The Spectrality of the Image - The Temporality of the Text - The Exigency of the Photographed Place Epilogue: The Geophilosophy of Photography Acknowledgments Notes References Index

“Shobeiri’s notion of ‘geophilosophy’ is an important contribution to the field. Its merits are twofold: on the one hand, it thoroughly brings together three disciplines in a very organic and convincing way; on the other hand, it also offers an excellent synthesis of the existing research on ‘place’, which serves as an echo chamber to the authors and concepts that are creatively appropriated in this work.”

Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University (NL). His recent books are 'Virtual Photography' (co-edited 2024), 'Psychosomatic Imagery' (co-edited 2023), 'Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography' (monograph 2021), and 'Animation and Memory' (co-edited 2020).

• Contents Introduction Chapter One. The Photographer: A Corporeal Place in the Phenomenal World - Going for a Walk with a Lived Body - Inhabiting the World as a “lived place” - Confrontational Aesthetics of Corporeality Chapter Two. The Camera: A Place That Spatialises Time and Temporalises Space - Seeing through the Camera - An Apparatus that Lies in Wait 40The Black Box of Contingency Chapter Three. The Photograph: A Place That Lacks Its Own Emplacement - Never in a Single Location - A Placeless Place Sailing Across Different Spaces - The Vagabond Locomotion of Photographs Chapter Four. Photographic Place: Looking at the Photographic Image from Its Edge - Specificities of the Photographic Frame - Photographic Place in a Maximised Blind Field - Photographic Place in a Minimised Blind Field - Liminality of the Photographic Place Chapter Five. The Spectator: A Place That Is Sempiternally Taking Place - Place as a State of Being - “The event of photography” 98The Evental Place of Photography Chapter Six. The Genre: The Aftermath of Place - Landscape and the Agency of Place - The Spectrality of the Image - The Temporality of the Text - The Exigency of the Photographed Place Epilogue: The Geophilosophy of Photography Acknowledgments Notes References Index

“Shobeiri’s notion of ‘geophilosophy’ is an important contribution to the field. Its merits are twofold: on the one hand, it thoroughly brings together three disciplines in a very organic and convincing way; on the other hand, it also offers an excellent synthesis of the existing research on ‘place’, which serves as an echo chamber to the authors and concepts that are creatively appropriated in this work.”

Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University (NL). His recent books are 'Virtual Photography' (co-edited 2024), 'Psychosomatic Imagery' (co-edited 2023), 'Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography' (monograph 2021), and 'Animation and Memory' (co-edited 2020).

• Contents Introduction Chapter One. The Photographer: A Corporeal Place in the Phenomenal World - Going for a Walk with a Lived Body - Inhabiting the World as a “lived place” - Confrontational Aesthetics of Corporeality Chapter Two. The Camera: A Place That Spatialises Time and Temporalises Space - Seeing through the Camera - An Apparatus that Lies in Wait 40The Black Box of Contingency Chapter Three. The Photograph: A Place That Lacks Its Own Emplacement - Never in a Single Location - A Placeless Place Sailing Across Different Spaces - The Vagabond Locomotion of Photographs Chapter Four. Photographic Place: Looking at the Photographic Image from Its Edge - Specificities of the Photographic Frame - Photographic Place in a Maximised Blind Field - Photographic Place in a Minimised Blind Field - Liminality of the Photographic Place Chapter Five. The Spectator: A Place That Is Sempiternally Taking Place - Place as a State of Being - “The event of photography” 98The Evental Place of Photography Chapter Six. The Genre: The Aftermath of Place - Landscape and the Agency of Place - The Spectrality of the Image - The Temporality of the Text - The Exigency of the Photographed Place Epilogue: The Geophilosophy of Photography Acknowledgments Notes References Index

“Shobeiri’s notion of ‘geophilosophy’ is an important contribution to the field. Its merits are twofold: on the one hand, it thoroughly brings together three disciplines in a very organic and convincing way; on the other hand, it also offers an excellent synthesis of the existing research on ‘place’, which serves as an echo chamber to the authors and concepts that are creatively appropriated in this work.”