On 21 September 2023, Helen Sear is in conversation with Eugenie Shinkle at the Centre for British Photography. “Helen Sear presents a series of large-scale works that combine multiple images to emphasise the indivisibility of the human and the natural worlds. In giving equal status to the human and natural, Sear observes the landscape as another body. […]
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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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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 […]
Throughout 2024, the University of Westminster and The Photographers’ Gallery will collaborate to invite various artists and photographers who create or write about photography to challenge visual representation within socially oriented practices and to explore the impact of their work within broader discourses. Our next Photography Forum event will be with Amin Yousefi (b.1996) who holds an MA in Photography from […]
Dr. Paula Gortázar’s article, ‘Plastic Borders: On the Photographic Frame and its Virtual Experience’, has been published in the special issue Boundries and Borders of Photographies journal. In an age where immersive virtual worlds will soon dominate our online interactions, the paper discusses current forms and uses of photography within emerging virtual spaces. Through practice-led, experimental research on the use of […]
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Throughout 2024, the University of Westminster and The Photographers’ Gallery will collaborate to invite various artists and photographers who create or write about photography to challenge visual representation within socially oriented practices and to explore the impact of their work within broader discourses. Our opening Photography Forum event will be with artist and researcher, Will Lakin who is an artist and […]
The last decade has seen a clear shift in the operational frameworks for the production, dissemination and consumption of photographs in contemporary computerised societies. The representational apparatus of photography is being progressively converted into algorithmic and generative processes through computer automation, connectivity and algorithmic control. Recent developments of AI systems and expanded technologies exponentially transform […]
Shining Lights reflects the work by Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s. Editors are Joy Gregory and Taous Dahmani. Edited and researched by Joy Gregory, alongside art historian Taous Dahmani. Roshini Kempadoo has contributed an essay entitled: Doing it All Again: Re-imagining Blackness, Memory, and History, a joint portfolio with Claudette […]
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David Campany contributes a major essay to ‘American Glitch’ the new book by artists Caleb Stein & Andrea Orejarena. The book explores the friction between fact and fiction and how this is manifested in the U.S. landscape. An ocean of information leaves us questioning what is real — and what isn’t. In an era defined by screens, the notion that we’re […]