Lucy Soutter is Reader in Photography and Expanded Photography MA Lead. Her research focuses on questions of value and meaning in art and photography. Her book Why Art Photography? explores ambiguity, objectivity, fiction, authenticity, the digital and photography’s expanded field. One of her key research themes is expanded photography: contemporary photography’s overlap with other contemporary art forms and activities, including installation, performance, sculpture and advanced digital practices. Lucy is a founding member of the Global Photographies Network, an international community of universities and photographic organisations, working together to co-author a programme of talks, seminars and workshops for photographic practitioners and students in a professional and educational network. She is co-editor, with Duncan Wooldridge of The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies (2024).

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