Dr Jennifer Good is a writer and Senior Lecturer in the history and theory of photojournalism and documentary photography at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London.
She has been teaching on LCC’s world-renowned BA and MA courses in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography since 2009, where she works with students to contextualise their practice in relation to the evolving ethical, political, historical, theoretical and critical discourses that surround contemporary visual culture. She also supervises numerous PhD students and is Research Coordinator for the LCC School of Media. She is currently a 2024 Visiting Researcher at Archivo Photography & Visual Culture Research Platform.
For the past fifteen years, her own research has been concerned with the photographic representation of conflict from global terrorism to domestic violence. Her published writing includes the book, Photography and September 11th: Spectacle, Memory, Trauma (Bloomsbury 2015), the co-authored book, Understanding Photojournalism, (Bloomsbury 2017) and the edited essay collection, Mythologizing the Vietnam War: Visual Culture and Mediated Memory (CSP, 2014), as well as many book chapters and journal articles, commercial and editorial writing commissions and reviews.
A secondary strand of her research is concerned with pedagogies of reading, writing and power, grounded in her teaching practice. This has led her to develop the concept of ‘critical paralysis’: a means of conceptualizing students’ encounters with the discourse of decoloniality and photography’s histories of racism.
