The aim of the Court of Images is to look at justice-making. Consequently, the image takes precedence over the text. We expect all submissions to invite us to look at a chosen visual together, to negotiate the relationship between institutions of justice-making (courts, tribunals or similar spectacles and gatherings of justice-making) and people. The visual material can be in variety of forms including but not limited to sketches, photography, moving images, CCTV recordings, social media posts, web-streams, comics and other means of production and distribution of images, and from different sources including images submitted as evidence in a legal trial, images of the court itself, media reflections on a case, or any other images that the contributor feels are related to the process of justice-making in its broadest sense. The accompanying text can be of any format and length. We welcome theoretical, historical or philosophical engagement with the material as well as more creative interventions such as poetry, collages or video essays. As a point of reference, the viewers should be able to continue looking at the image while reading the accompanying text.
Submissions
Guidelines of submissions
Guidelines of submissions:
There must be an accompanying image, submitted together with relevant copyright permissions/explanations.
Images can be selected from any region of the world or any moment in history.
Submissions should be in English or with English translations.
There are no restrictions on the format or the size of the accompanying text. It can be a single word or a long piece of prose.
If you are submitting to the TexTs section, you don’t have to submit an accompanying image, but we may assign one. This section is for any other forms of submissions such as interviews, sound bites, theoretical elaborations, book reviews that falls into the theoretical framework of the platform.
Additional Information
All articles are published subject to a creative commons licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This means that submissions to this site may be freely republished by others for non-commercial purposes and with due attribution. More details are available here.
Articles that ignore any of the guidelines above are not automatically rejected.
Please send your texts and images to:
And please use the same email address for all communication.