photophobia is a collection of creative essaysthat traverse the author’s wounds surrounding photography and art school, their neurological condition of visual snow and comorbid psychological disorders, and the ghosts of their mother and childhood friend. The work blends and accumulates past and present writings and selves; captions and images; real and imagined Wikipedia pages and Google searches; quotes and references to 2022 films NOPE and Everything Everywhere All at Once;the writings of Teju Cole, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, and Christina Sharpe on photography; artistic “dysfluency” and disabled experience from JJJJJJerome Ellis; and harmful accounts of shame-based pedagogy. photophobia’s aspirations are two-fold: presenting a personal account of visual snow that rejects ableist framing language, and questioning the current pedagogy of photography as the author experienced it, as well as all artistic fields across higher education. photophobia utilizes hyperlink as metaphor, extended metaphor, and bridge as it mimics the form of Wikipedia articles. Its meta-text margins translate and transcend the hyperlinks and provide additional commentary and context, as well as insight into the author’s creative process and multidisciplinary poetics.