Psychosomatic Imagery

Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the author of Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography (2021) and co-editor of Animation and Memory (2020).  Helen Westgeest is Associate Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art History and Theory of Photography at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She is the author of Slow Painting: Contemplation and Critique in the Digital Age (2020) and Video Art Theory (2016).

• Part 1: Secluded Subjects and Sociable Objects.- Ali Shobeiri, ‘The Room is the World: Reflecting on the Lived Experience of “Hikikomori” through Photography’.- Stefaan Vervoort, ‘Objects as Friends: Societal Dysfunction and Photography in the Work of Harald Thys and Jos de Gruyter’.- Part 2. Psychosomatic Disruptions and Distortions Laura Bertens, ‘Traces of Absence: the (Im)possibility of Representing the Phantom Limb’.- Karen van Minnen, ‘Ghost Feelings and Distortion: Redefining Dis-ease’.- Part 3. Traversing Hysteria and Bipolar Disorder.- Paul Grace, ‘Reconfiguring the Photography of Hysteria’.- Eric Patel, ‘Buried Images: Indian Photography and Mental Health’.- Part 4: Images Mediating between Two Worlds.- Helen Westgeest, ‘Photographic Visions on Mentally Disordered Experiences of the World Outside: Meaningful Disruption in Psychosomatic Imagery’.- Ana Peraica, ‘Selfies and the Fear of Facing the World Unmediated’.