C4 Journal is a platform dedicated to writing about photography, and the use of the book form as a way of presenting it.
Our aim is to explore and promote exceptional work from all over the world, including that which is often sidelined in more mainstream discussion and debate.
We believe that writing about photography can and should be clear, critical and accessible, and that it should give a voice to work that seeks out new ways of seeing and thinking.
We publish articles and interviews on this site, but also share work that excites us on our Instagram, @c4journal.
Eugénie Shinkle
Eugénie is Reader in Photography at University of Westminster. She writes for a range of academic and wider contexts and has contributed to platforms such as Aperture, American Suburb X, Foam and Source. Her visual work deals broadly with the relations (political, aesthetic, and material) between vision machines and space.
Callum Beaney
Callum is a software engineer and photographer. He has a background working in cultural heritage. He often works with Eugenie and other C4 folk on photo projects. In recent years he has stepped back from managing C4 but can still be reached via the contact form.
Matt Dunne
Matt is a photographer and writer living in Melbourne, Australia. He writes for Tending to the Garden, a website exploring photography’s relationship to nature and photography in Australia. He makes photographic work dealing with the complex and problematic relationship between people and nature.
Lillian Wilkie
Lillian is a writer and editor based in the UK. She is a publisher with Chateau International and organiser for Bound Art Book Fair.
Brian Arnold
Brian Arnold is a photographer and writer based in Ithaca, NY, where he works as an Indonesian language translator at Cornell University. Brian has published books on alternative photographic processes, and on contemporary Javanese photography. He has taught photography at institutions and schools around the world.
Lewis Bush
Lewis is an educator, researcher, and artist based in London, UK. Lewis is course leader of the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at London College of Communication. Bush is also a PhD candidate at LSE, where he is researching the impact of machine intelligence on photojournalism.
Lucy J Rogers
Lucy is a photographer and writer based in the UK. She is currently undertaking Techne funded doctoral research at the University of Westminster. With a background in sculpture, her writing and practice focus on photography’s role in the construction of space, site and memory.
Alexander Mourant
Alexander Mourant is an artist, writer and educator based in London. His practice and research focuses on Land Art, Conceptual Art and Arte Povera, with a particular interest in photography, performance, installation and sculpture.
Paula Gortázar
Paula Gortázar is a Lecturer in Photography at the University of Westminster. Her articles have been published in academic journals including Photography and Culture and Fotocinema. Her artistic practice explores the relation between art and politics.
Louis Stopforth
Louis is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer based in the UK. Within his own practice there is often an exploration of the materiality of the photograph as well as the relationship between sculpture and photography.
Laura Bivolaru
Laura Bivolaru is a visual artist and member of Revolv Collective, currently based in the UK. Her artistic practice and writing deal with the relationship between photography, time and history, with a focus on postcommunist Eastern Europe.
Nick Scammell
Nick is an artist and curator, who writes. His writing tends to reflect his artistic practice, which centres on the impermanence of media, memory and word. He has a weakness for books.
Ha Dao
Ha Dao practices photography through writing, curating and working on her own projects. She coordinates the programs at Matca while grudgingly accepting the new position as the only available event host.