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Asko Lehmuskallio

@verlook.bsky.social
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Visual studies / photography / media anthropology Co-author of Visual Studies (Routledge, 2025) *Visual Studies Lab / **co-org Helsinki Photomedia

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Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
✨ New article out with Paula Haara ✨ Very happy to be part of this collection of insightful works on historicising the technopolitics of migration and border control, edited by Michelle Pfeifer & Philipp Seuferling. Make sure to explore all contributions! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tracing histories of the ‘smart’ passport by focusing on infrastructural media
Smart passports rely on forms of infrastructural mediation that have been incrementally incorporated into border regimes over the last decades. For example, a solution developed for a specific soci...
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Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
For the book, see: www.routledge.com/Visual-Studi...
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Visual Studies: A Social Scientific Perspective
This book presents a transcultural and generative introduction to the field of visual studies. Aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at students and scholars in the social sciences, it explores the mu...
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Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The Visual Studies book is in good company at the 42nd International Visual Sociology Association conference in South Korea 🙏 Thank you Han Sang Kim and colleagues, as well as the many student volunteers for a very informative and caring conference experience. #IVSA2025 #visualstudies
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Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
it’s a beautiful reflection.
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Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The New York Times has installed *Visual Studies*, a series that explores how images move through and shape culture. Great to see this kind of public attention! Hopefully the academic field with its research traditions is reflected in future contributions too. www.nytimes.com/card/2025/04...
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Opinion | There’s More to Selfies Than Meets the Eye
Is a selfie embarrassing? It depends on how you think about it.
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Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
It is spring 2025 and the book is today officially out ✨💫 I hope it will be useful to those of you who are interested in exploring how our ways of seeing impact on how we relate to each other, our selves, and the various worlds we inhabit. If interested, you can save 20% by using code 25ESA1
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Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Very excited about this book, written together with the fantastic Paolo S H Favero. It has been such a joy to live, weave and share ideas together. Cover 📸 by one of my favourite artists, Maija Tammi. Available in spring 2025 🔥🥳 www.routledge.com/Visual-Studi...
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Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Hi Hugh, it’s a great topic. And yes, there are indeed many earlier moments to consider. The camera studies network has met physically a few times, atm there’s no public way to keep track, but I’ll suggest that.
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Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
the ‘speculative camera’. Your question (and answers) will be definitely of interest to the camera studies network (www.zem-brandenburg.de/en/projekte/...), so looking fwd to learning more.
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Camera Studies | ZeM
Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften
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Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
(I’ve read it in German, Das geteilte Bild). I guess both the question of ‘the camera’ and ‘the digital’ are not self-evident, I’ve tried to make some suggestions related to the former in a chapter on ‘The camera as a meeting place for decision making’ as well as a forthcoming co-authored paper on
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Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thanks @profgillian.bsky.social , very interesting question. I haven’t come up with an answer, some books such as Gustavson’s ‘Camera’ suggest arriving at the ‘digital’ from that perspective, but of course the book doesn’t fully answer the question. I’ve enjoyed Gunthert’s L’image partagée…
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Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Today we discuss with the filmmakers of Kukaan ei katso sinua silmiin (No one looks you into the eyes) loneliness, camera-mediated sociality and the life around us that is only visible mediated via technologies. Incl screening of the film!
Movie poster with young child whose face is covered by an adult’s hands. Text invites to a screening.
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