Conference Program: Women in Photography: Practitioners, Labourers, Entrepreneurs in a Global Perspective (1839-1939) 20-21 November 2025

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Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…

Known as 'the trip chocolate', Kvikk Lunsj has fuelled outdoor adventures for generations. So, what makes this chocolate so controversial?

The story of Edwin Land, whose iconic Polaroid camera let everyone instantly chronicle their lives.

Photography, Value, History Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 16-17 June 2025 Where: Hybrid event, Online and at De Montfort University, Leicester. *…

On Photography and Care, Edited by Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad, Elin Haugdal, Stephanie von Spreter and Hanne Hammer Stien. Volume 18, Issue 1 of photographies

On Lies, Secrets and Silence presents Frida Orupabo’s distinctive vision in her most extensive exhibition to date.

“The Fatal Blemish”: Purity, Consistency, and Chemical Engineers at the Origin of a New Visual Order, 1890–1930

For this call, we suggest the concept of extreme foods, to explore foodstuffs and eating practices that in certain situations and contexts, for different reasons and in different ways, are pushed t...

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Photography, Value, History Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 16-17 June 2025 Where: Hybrid event, Online and at De Montfort University, Leicester. F…

Ecosystems, non-Collections and Infrastructures:  Museums and the work of photographs.   Photographs play a fundamental role in the definition and management of museums and their collections. In th...

Co-editors Carolin Görgen, Associate Professor of American Studies, Sorbonne Université Alice Morin, Media and Photo historian, Fellow at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen Marie-Eve Bouillon,...

La oss snakke om det som driver oss i akademia.

Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo shows how people have lived in Norway from 1500 to the present.