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Co-Editor in Chief: Grace Chang
Co-Editor in Chief: Tatiana Povoroznyuk
Graphic Designer: Akari Esaka
Assistant Graphic Designer: Zoe Lin
Editors: Ali Cayetano, Aja Papp, Claudine Yip, Doris Fuller, Juliette Karmel, Kaja Bakken, Mia Chen, Victoria Ranea
Contributing Artists: Emma Jenkins, Jessica Girard, Vicky Chia Wei (嘉維)Mo
Contributing Writers: Jane Lemon, Melanie Crist, Roselynn Sadaghiani, Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora
Articles
James Charles. April 5, 2020, 7:25 PM. https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1247202476639637504/photo/1.
THE CRIMINAL “LOOK”: INVESTIGATING BIAS WITHIN BERTILLONAGE
Melanie Crist
"This moment exposes a culture in which social bias still manifests in the creation and reinforcement of criminal appearance—and worse, glamorizes and exacerbates these biases by way of mimetic repetition of the stereotype.”
ReMatriate’s ReImagining of Indigenous Futurity
Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora
“This simple and transparent format effectively communicates the collective’s intentions to reclaim visual representation of Indigenous womxn—one part in the ongoing process of reimagining and decolonizing mainstream representation of Indigeneity in the media.”
Prentice Hall Polk, The Boss, 1932 gelatin silver print.
DECONSTRUCTING THE BOSS: AN ANALYSIS OF A PHOTOGRAPH BY PRENTICE HALL POLK
Jane Lemon
“The beautifully lit face that highlights the steady, forthright gaze of The Boss forces the viewer to disregard the shabby work attire and instead contemplate her character and own sense of self...”
Jan Dirk Van Der Burg, Censorship Daily, 2012.
Censorship to Retain Power: Covering/Erasing, Dismembering, and Cutting Off
Roselynn Sadaghiani
"In Iran there is freedom of expression. It is freedom after expression that does not exist" - Hadi Khorsandi
ARTIST PROFILES
Untitled (blue&violet), 2020, wax.
Emma Jenkins: The Art and Act of Crafting
Ali Cayetano
Chopin's Bath, 2019, video, 6 minutes looped, dimensions variable.
Intimacies, Shared: Finding Selves in Jessica Girard’s Pieces
Juliette Karmel
Remembering my Mother ’s Lullaby, 2018, 5x7, or size of photo album, screenprint with digital print on fine art paper, placed inside a photo album.
Process and Product: Vicky Chia Wei ( 嘉維) Mo on Provoking the Public through the Personal
Claudine Yip
The Undergraduate Journal of Art History & Visual Culture (UJAH) is a free student journal published by the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory and the Art History Students’ Association at the University of British Columbia. All material is copyright © 2021 UJAH, authors. All inquiries can be emailed to ubc.ujah@gmail.com.
UJAH gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the UBC Art History Students’ Association and the UBC Arts Undergraduate Society, as well as the editorial and financial support of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.
UJAH’s editorial team would like to acknowledge that we work and learn on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people.
Issue 12, 2021. Published since 2009. Cover design by Akari Esaka.