OVER Journal is a new periodical publication that proposes its readers a more wholesome, honest, and critical observation and enjoyment of photography. Publishing commissioned texts and artworks alongside interviews and opinion pieces, it aims to create the ideal channel for an open and global discussion about the context in which the discipline sits, and not just about the output of artists, exhibiting venues, and publishing houses.
OVER Journal issue 5 presents a collaborative editorial project devised by four member organisations of FUTURES, the European Photography Platform, around the theme of Metamorphosis. For this special issue, OVER Journal invited 3 guest editors from the platform to tap into the FUTURES network as well as their own. Reflections around Metamorphosis set the scene and introduce a selection of portfolios of FUTURES Talents. The issue opens with articles that include those by Colin Graham and Joanna Zylinska, both reflecting on photography's adaptability and evolving condition, followed by the premiere of texts by two artists: a preview of a new work by Eamonn Doyle ahead of its launch in 2026 at the International Centre for the Image, and the presentation of a very personal reflection by Cristna De Middel around the experience of migration.
Issue 5 features artists Claudia Amatruda, Lyndon Barrois Jr., Máté Bartha, Benedetta Casagrande, Cristina de Middel, Eamonn Doyle and Niall Sweeney and David Donohoe, Marcus Gustafsson, Vitalii Halanzha, Zoe Hamill, Ksenia Ivanova, Emilia Martin, Anna Orlowska, Constantin Schlachter, Balázs Turós, Viktoriia Tymonova, Yana Wernicke, and Ada Zielinska. It includes texts by Emanuele Coccia, Colin Graham, Michael Hill, Hana Janečková, Aidan Kelly Murphy, Světlana Malina, Emese Mucsi, Ilaria Sponda, Raphaelle Stopin, István Virágvölgyi, Erik Vroons, and Joanna Zylinska.
256 pages, 18.4 x 24.5 cm, softcover, PhotoIreland (Dublin).