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Record W4407069944 · doi:10.5206/tba.v6i1.18959

Photography, Memory and Postmigration:

2025· article· en· W4407069944 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

Venuetba Journal of Art Media and Visual Culture · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhotography and Visual Culture
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhotographyHistoryArtVisual arts

Abstract

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Contemporary cross-border migration patterns often reflect historical colonial ideologies, with inequalities in freedom of movement closely tied to national identity, race, ethnicity, and gender. Representations of migrant women in news outlets frequently aim to symbolically position them as passive victims and depoliticized subjects dependent on external aid. While various facets of migration have been explored in critical media scholarship, more attention needs to be given to photography's role in depicting women's movement across geographical and cultural borders beyond traditional photojournalistic and humanitarian conventions. Some migrant women photographers, such as Maryam Wahid and Mitra Samavaki, use visual practices to contest the inadequacy and lack of representation of migrant women and subjective migration experiences. These photographers invoke metaphorical visual languages to position women in front of and behind the camera as narrators of their own stories. Considering this context, this paper explores the potential of self-authored visual narratives—created and circulated by migrant women photographers—to offer innovative insights into subjects' agency. I discuss these alternative representations, building on Ariella Azoulay’s new political ontology of photography, T. J. Demos’ approach to aesthetics of migration, and Anne Ring Petersen's postmigrant perspective. This study theorizes the relationship between migration, photography, and first-person perspectives by examining how the political is reinstituted into an aesthetic framework within photographic practices. In conclusion, these artists portray mnemonic and subjective aspects of their migration experiences, engaging in image-making to reflect on a world shaped by and through migration. These self-authored visual narratives transcend the codes of objectivity and humanitarian traditions by creating a political space for transforming, contesting, and negotiating aesthetic complexities associated with memory, self, and womanhood.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.430
Threshold uncertainty score0.457

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.266
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it