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RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

-Image-text relations

-Symbiotic writing with text and image

-Reciprocal relations between archival contents and the location of an archive

-Retaining relational and material values when digitising photograph archives

-British censorship of photographs during the Second World War

-The visual wartime rhetoric of the bombing of London

-Civilian experiences of the Second World War in Britain

-Museum and media display of civilian experiences of war

-Life story and oral history; collection practices, application and ethics

-Mapping and memory

 

 

SELECTED CONFERENCES

Safeguarding the Critical Moment. Maintaining relational values between images in the London Bomb Damage Photograph Archive 1940 – 1945, Image, Archive and Conflict. (Im)material Ecologies in the Digital Age, International Conference on Photography and Visual Culture, hosted by Archivo Platform, September 2023.

 

Image, Caption and the Red Pen. Two Material Readings of Archival Press Photographs, Material Practices of Visual History, hosted by de Montfort University, Leicester, co-written and presented with Rebecca Smith, University of Leicester, June 2019.

The Witness in the Archive and Other Narratives, public lecture, Cample Line, November 2017.

 

Fragment, Montage, Possibilities. Reading a Photograph Archive, Prokalo Lecture Series, hosted by the University of Edinburgh, October 2017.

 

Touching the Past. A Short History of the Ministry of Information Press & Censorship Bureau Photograph Library, hosted as part of the Imperial War Museum History Group Lecture series, London, September 2017.

 

Making Visible: Writing with Photographs of London Taken During the Second World War, Compas International Symposium, facilitated by Dr Ella Chmielweska and Dr Holger Brohm, hosted by the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt University, Berlin July 2017.

 

Making Connections. Researching a Photograph Archive of Bomb-Damaged London, CDP Conference, hosted by The National Archives, London, February 2017.

 

Mapping Memory. Visualising Oral Histories, What’s it Worth? The Value and Potential of the CDA, hosted by The British Museum, London, July 2015.

 

Thinking Through the City. A Conversation on the Making of an Exhibition with Piotr Lesniak, hosted by University of Edinburgh, April 2014 and hosted by Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, for the Researching Photography Network, October 2014.

 

Recto-Verso: De-ciphering Press Photographs Showing Results of Bombings on London, 1944, Sensing War, hosted by University College London, June, 2014.

 

Acts of Witnessing. Problematics of Reading Images of Destruction, International colloquium on writing and visual methodologies, facilitated by Dr Ella Chmielewska and Dr Holger Brohm, hosted by the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 2013.