Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University. His current research and publications are in the fields of photography theories, phenomenology, aesthetics, and spatial studies.
He is the author of 'Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography' (LUP, 2021), and co-editor of 'Oikography: Homemaking through Photography' (LUP, 2025), 'Virtual Photography: Artificial Intelligence, In-game, and Extended Reality' (Transcript, 2024), 'Psychosomatic Imagery: Photographic Reflections on Mental Disorders' (Palgrave, 2023) and 'Animation and Memory' (Palgrave, 2020). His upcoming books are entitled: 'Photography / Intensity / Measure' (co-edited) and 'Aquatic Thinking' (co-authored).