paper cameras press is an intimate publishing platform. I* collaborate with people to design and distribute learning aids** for studying photography and visual culture.



As the speed at which we*** make and consume images continues to increase, paper cameras press offers tools for making looking a tactile activity. These tools invite us to slow down our observation, consider the social and material conditions of image-making, and develop thoughtful practices in photography and related lens-based mediums. paper cameras press seeks to support practices of observation that nourish our relationships with one another, rather than extract from them.



I am in the midst of updating this website—so please stay tuned for more!

*Hi! My name is Katie :) You can read more about what drew me to start Paper Cameras here: https://veralistcenter.org/publications/paper-cameras/

**By learning aid, I mean any tactile tool that supports physically engaging and thinking about photography and visual culture. These could be card decks, workbooks, worksheets; or, even interactive games, paper viewfinders, and more.

***I use“we” when talking about photography generally, as I understand photography to be a sticky thing in the world that impacts all of us.

paper cameras press formally commits to adhering to the Palestinian international call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and to complying with the guidelines of the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).

We stand in total solidarity with the people of Palestine, who continue to struggle for liberation against the ongoing genocidal violence of Western imperial and Zionist powers.

Even though we are a small press with currently just 1 worker, we are active participants in memory work, archival stewardship, and the field of photography—all of which are webbed into institutional fabrics that have historically been weaponized by imperial actors to manufacture consent for genocide. Thus we, both as individuals and with our larger connective capacities, commit to not crossing the international picket line for Palestine. Specifically, we commit—where applicable—to:

• Boycott any cultural product commissioned by an official Israeli body;
  
• Boycott any cultural product funded by an official Israeli body, even if not commissioned;
  
• Boycott any cultural event that is partially or fully sponsored or funded by an official Israeli body;
• Refrain from participation in any form of academic and cultural cooperation, collaboration, or joint projects with Israeli institutions, including suspension of all forms of funding and subsidies to/from these institutions;
• Refrain from hosting or circulating any events or cultural products operating under the auspices of “normalization”, or which advance a false symmetry between oppressed and oppressor;
• Support Palestinian academic and cultural institutions directly without requiring them to partner with Israeli counterparts as an explicit or implicit condition for such support.