Photo Essay Submissions
We welcome submissions from anthropologists at any stage in their career, working on any topic in any geographic region. You can download our best practices for this form of public scholarship and send us a message below and check out our published photo essays for inspiration. You retain all the rights to your images and are free to use them in any other context — just let us know how we can copyright your work, if applicable. We do ask that you do not reuse or remix your writing, however. Feel free to ask questions in the comment section below!
Given the specificities of a photo essay — light on text, heavy on photos — it may be helpful to conceptualize your photo essay around a discrete concept or theme. This might mean thinking about how to visually represent a concept that has been important to your written research — one that you feel is important engage a public audience, or that could be useful in public discourse. However, you might also take this opportunity to explore a concept that has come up in your research but that you haven’t been able to explore in written scholarship.
Think of yourself as a visual storyteller.
What do you think?