British Journal of Photography #7925

British Journal of Photography Issue #7925: Ghost in the Machine examines photography as a technological system shaped by both human intention and machine logic. As artificial intelligence and automated vision become embedded in how images are produced, circulated, and interpreted, this issue asks what photography reveals—and what it conceals—when agency is shared between people and devices.

Across essays, portfolios, and critical reflections, photography emerges not as a neutral recorder of reality, but as a medium marked by absence, distortion, and unease.

In counterpoint, analogue photography resurfaces as a haunted companion to automation. Artists including Åsa Johannesson, Johny Pitts, Aikaterini Gegisian, Keisha Scarville, and Rehaf Al Batniji revisit film, archives, found imagery, and endangered studios—underscoring photography’s enduring relationship to memory, testimony, and survival.

Ghost in the Machine is a critical, timely issue for readers interested in photography, AI, visual culture, and the politics of image-making.