Meir Wigoder is an independent scholar and photographer. Retired from teaching, his work focuses on photography theory, media aesthetics, and, in particular, representations of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. His research explores how photographs and moving images mediate political events and acts of witnessing, while his photographic work engages with those terrains marked by political division and destruction. His articles have appeared in Public Culture, Critical Inquiry, Third Text, and History of Photography, in addition to other journals and edited volumes.