This session invites papers that explore photographic albums as valuable records of visual expressions of the cultural politics of colonialism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Produced a...

The Handsworth Self Portrait project (1979) was a makeshift outdoor studio that challenged the media’s criminalizing portrayals of Handsworth and its black community by inviting residents to take t...

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…

Join us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography.

Rethink photography as a ma

Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage Donna West Brett University of Sydney, Australia ‘A Strange Tissue of Space and Time’: Modernist Photobooks & Propaganda Booking is …

Sara Dominici, University of Westminster. London, 01.10.2026, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.04.2026

In last month’s post, I confessed that teaching has never been my favourite aspect of academic life. It’s the area I have struggled with the most in my career, in part because I teach a…

Explore the article collection: Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize. Published in Visual Culture in Britain.

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…

The age of photographs. 50 years of image preservation.

Join us for the next online seminar! Date: Monday 8 December 2025 Time: 2-3.30 pm UK time Platform: Ms Teams ETHICS AND CONSENT IN MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY Speakers: Dr Arya Thampuran (Durham University...

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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…

PHRC is pleased to announce the launch of Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, a new, free, online series of talks and discussions exploring photography’s intersections with pol…

How are photographic instit

Explore the article collection: Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize. Published in Visual Culture in Britain.

Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Today I officially start my Leverhulme Research Fellowship, which will allow me to write my second monograph, Medical Photography in Nineteenth-Century France. From the Material to the Ethical over ...