Following on from two guest edited themed issues, Vol 16.3 offers a photo essay and seven individually submitted articles that between them encompass a wide range of themes, from more theoretical ...concerns with methods in photo-criticism, photobooks, alternative documentary strategies, and comparison of approaches within photo education, to the gothic and the surreal in art photography, and a photo-essay seated in environmentalist concerns. Together they indicate something of the breadth of critical research that currently characterises the field of photographic theory and practice.