British Journal of Photography Issue 7925 Jan/Mar 2026 – Ghost in the Machine

£20.00

Taking Ghost in the Machine as its starting point, this issue examines photography as a technological system shaped by both human intention and machine logic. As artificial intelligence and automated vision become increasingly embedded in how images are produced and read, the issue asks what photography reveals – and what it obscures – when agency is shared between people and devices. Throughout, photography appears not as a neutral recorder, but as a medium marked by absence, distortion, and unease.

Taking Ghost in the Machine as its starting point, this issue examines photography as a technological system shaped by both human intention and machine logic. As artificial intelligence and automated vision become increasingly embedded in how images are produced and read, the issue asks what photography reveals – and what it obscures – when agency is shared between people and devices. Throughout, photography appears not as a neutral recorder, but as a medium marked by absence, distortion, and unease.