Editorial
Collocated social practices surrounding photos

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Reflection and remembrance

Photography has long been associated with the idea of providing new perspectives. The street photographer Garry Winogrand is famously quoted as saying “I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed”, and theorists such as Sontag (1977) and Berger (1980) have argued that by fixing a scene, photography provides the opportunity to study and see it anew. Sontag in particular suggests that the photo has the potential to make visible additional details, with the consequence that

Performativity and expression

We now turn to consider the function of photography as a resource for self-expression and, in particular, the significance of performance in people's collocated interaction with photos. We also reflect on the ways in which digital technology mediates performance and expression in the course of interaction.

Connection and communication

The third and final theme we wish to consider revolves around the nature of communing or coming together and the ways in which developing photo practices and technologies might affect or otherwise influence this process. In a Special Issue concerned with, what we have termed, collocated social practices surrounding photos, this inter-relationship between the sharing of photos and the sense of what it means to ‘come together’ seems a particularly relevant issue to explore.

Photos have for many

Conclusions

In the preceding sections, we have presented some reflections on contemporary digital photography. Our hope is that by framing the articles included in this Special Issue in terms of collocated social practices, we have demonstrated that there are a range of ways to think about what people do with their photos and why particular practices are important to them. Our aim has been to encourage further thinking about such practices as recollection and reflection, self-presentation, and the

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