Emerita Professor Christie Brown is currently exhibiting ceramics and drawing in Galeri Nev, a major Turkish gallery in Ankara, alongside the legendary Turkish artist Candeger Furtun. This two-person exhibition illustrates the strong connection between the practices of these two clay artists both thematically and technically. They first met during the two-day seminar in 2019 co-organised […]
The work of Sarah Pucill is featured in the new book publication, Photography: A Queer History, edited by Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon, published by Ilex. ‘Across ten diverse themes from documentary to performance, landscape to abstraction, visibility to militancy and more “photography: A Queer History examines the fundamental role of photography in the creation of […]
Film Screening of Sarah Pucill’s Magic Mirror at Cambridge University, on 13 June 2024. The screening will be followed by a discussion between the filmmaker, and Dr Diamuid Hester, who recently wrote about Claude Cahun in his book ‘Nothing Ever Just Disappears’. The discussion will be chaired by Cambridge doctoral researcher, Ciara Hervas. Magic Mirror […]
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Sarah Pucill‘s film, ‘Double Exposure’ (2023) is screening at Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art in London, on 31 May 2024. The screening is followed by a discussion between the filmmaker and the curator and writer Helena Reckitt. Sarah Pucill’s recent film ‘Double Exposure’ (16mm+Digital, 26min, 2023) premiered at Frankfurt Experimental Film Festival September 2023 and won Best Experimental Film […]
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PhotoResearcher no. 41 – The Darkroom: Chemical, Cultural, Industrial is out now, guest edited by Dr Sara Dominici, scholar of photographic history and visual culture. “The Darkroom: Chemical, Cultural, Industrial is the first edited volume to explore the darkroom as a topic of analysis. Its aim is to examine the darkroom as a generative space, […]
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The interdisciplinary symposium, convened by the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance, Royal Holloway, University of London, proposes that ceramics objects lend themselves to a particularly rich form of relational performance analysis due to their material and formal variety, and their cultural ubiquity across history. Speakers from the CRC-UK/CREAM, include Prof. Clare Twomey in conversation […]
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Why do we need critical mass towards sustainability in the photobook ecosystem? What does it mean as a bookmaker, designer, publisher, supplier or consumer? What could it look like on a local and global level? On Thursday 18 April, the Sustainable Photobook Publishing (SPP) network hosts its annual online forum to coincide with Earth Day—a […]
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David Campany contributes an essay ‘I Saw Right Away That He Was Not There’ to Edgar Martins’ new book Anton’s hand is made of guilt. No muscle of bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and a Grief-stricken Thumb, a research-based documentary project, a novel, a journal, a lipogramme, an imaginary anthropological study, and a multifaceted body of work […]
Lola Olufemi is curating the public programme for the South London Gallery exhibition, Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest. This group exhibition at the SLG, organised in collaboration with the V&A, brings together works by international artists and collectives who are using the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional protest photography. This urgent and political […]
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You are warmly invited to join a roundtable discussion to explore how researchers across museums and universities can work together to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing research landscape. The idea of what comprises ‘research’, who and what this involves, and its impact and responsibilities have undergone a significant change in the twenty-first century. […]
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