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What arises as a thought or an image when an image and a text are brought into dialogue with each other? How are relational values between images, or a moment in an image revealed in this process? How does something previously unremarked in a text suddenly manifest during this critical reciprocal process when images and text are placed in the same philosophical and creative space in the now-time of reading?

 

Jane’s work which currently focuses on a previously unresearched archive of second world war censored press photographs of bomb-damaged London challenges notions of images as representative, complete or iconic, to instead correlate their temporal, fragmentary nature with the disintegrating civilian experiences of war. Through her research and writing informed by philosophical practices of montage, she explores relational values between images and texts. Her work with montage extends to her archival research which symbiotically expands from the original site of enquiry to the archive’s locale and beyond, gathering other archives, places and histories in unending relational transfers which give rise to the previously unthought or unseen in the principle archive.

 

City speculations have been undertaken in London, Warsaw and Berlin.

 

Academic Background

Forgotten Images Still Resisting Time. Writing the London Bomb Damage Photograph Archive 1940 – 1945, AHRC CDP funded cultural studies PhD thesis, ESALA, University of Edinburgh with the Imperial War Museums (2023).

 

On Concepts of Photography. Time, Memory and Acts of Witnessing, MSc by Research dissertation, Cultural Studies, ESALA, University of Edinburgh (2013).