Professor David Bate
David Bate is a photo-artist, theorist and teacher. Recent writings include Photography: Key Concepts (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), which has already been translated into five other languages, Art Photography (London: Tate Publications, 2015) and the photo-essay book Zone(London: Artwords, 2012). He is Professor of Photography at the University of Westminster, London and co-editor ofPhotographies journal, which will hold its first international conference on Critical Issues in Photography Today here at the University of Westminster (at the Regent Street Campus) on 18-19 May 2017.
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Dr. Ben Burbridge
Ben Burbridge is senior lecturer in art history and co-director of the Centre for Photography and Visual Culture at University of Sussex. His writing on photography, contemporary art, and politics has been published widely. Curated exhibitions include Revelations: Experiments in Photography (Media Space/National Media Museum 2015) and the 2012 Brighton Photo Biennial, Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space. Burbridge is co-editor of Photoworks and co-founder of Ph: The Photography Research Network. He is currently working on a book about photography, contemporary art, and neoliberalism.
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Anna Dannemann
Anna Dannemann is Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. She has curated numerous group shows including Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, the international touring exhibition Work, Rest and Play – 50 Years of British Photography (2015-2016) and FreshFaced+WildEyed (2013-2015), and is currently developing an exhibition around themes of Food and Networking. She has also curated several solo shows among them, Charlotte Dumas’ Anima & The Widest Prairies (2015), Viviane Sassen's Analemma (2014), and an exhibition of the photographic work of acclaimed writer and cult figure William Burroughs. She regularly contributes to catalogues and other publications and received an MA in Art and Visual History at the Humboldt-University Berlin.
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Dr. Sara Davidmann
Reader in Photography, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London and member of PARC. Sara Davidmann is an artist/photographer. In 2007, Sara was awarded a PhD in Photography (practice-based) from London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. For 15 years Sara took photographs/recorded oral histories in collaboration with people from UK transgender/queer communities (1999-2014). Her current project is Ken. To be destroyed. Sara’s work is internationally exhibited and published. Exhibitions include Schwules Museum, Berlin (2016), Liverpool Museum (2014), LimeWharf Gallery London (2014), Homotopia Liverpool (2013), LGBT Centre Paris (2009), Somatechnics Sydney (2009). Publications include Crossing the Line, Dewi Lewis (2003), a chapter in Transgender Experience, Routledge (2014), and she was guest co-editor of Journal of Photography & Culture Special Issue Queering Photography (2014). Awards include a Philip Leverhulme Prize, a Fulbright Hays Scholarship, 4 Arts and Humanities Research Council awards, an Association of Commonwealth Universities Fellowship and a Wellcome Trust Grant.
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Dr. Christopher Morton
Christopher Morton is Curator of Photograph and Manuscript Collections and Lecturer in Visual and Material Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He has published extensively on the relationship between photography, anthropology, and museum collections. Recent co-edited books include The African Photographic Archive: Research and Curatorial Strategies (Bloomsbury 2015) and Photographs, Museums, Collections: Between Art and Information (Bloomsbury 2015). He is currently writing a book for OUP on the field photography of anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard.
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Dr. Karen Shepherdson
Karen Shepherdson is a photographer, curator and writer. She is Reader in Photography at Canterbury Christ Church University and Director of the UK’s South East Archive of Seaside (SEAS) Photography. Her research and practice focuses on coastal communities that have endured chronic cultural and social underinvestment and how common ground is used as sites for potential wellbeing and community ‘repair’. She has exhibited in the UK, Scandinavia and the USA. Karen has received a number of external funding awards for research and she regularly creates national and international partnerships for practice and exhibition. She has curated several festivals and exhibitions that celebrate place and space and more recently still, Karen has been commissioned with Val Williams to co-curate an international photographic exhibition at Turner Contemporary Gallery, Margate UK (Spring, 2019) which examines the British seaside as photograph.
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Dr. Kelley Wilder
Kelley Wilder is Reader in Photographic History at De Montfort University, Leicester, and Director of the Photographic History Research Centre. She researches and writes about photographs between art and science, from the Nineteenth century to practising photographers of today. She is co-author with Gregg Mitman of Documenting the World: Film Photography and the Scientific Record (Chicago, 2016).
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Professor Val Williams
Val Williams is a curator and writer, and is Professor of the History and Culture of Photography at the University of the Arts London, Director of the Photography and the Archive Research Centre and of the Moose on the Loose Biennale of Research. She is also an editor of the Journal of Photography & Culture.
Curated projects include How We Are (Tate Britain; Daniel Meadows : Early Photographs (Library of Birmingham and touring); Warworks (Victoria &Albert Museum and touring ); Martin Parr Retrospective(Barbican Art Gallery and touring ) ; The Dead (National Media Museum and touring); Who’s Looking at the Family? (Barbican Art Gallery).
She has now worked on three versions of the Ken’ To be destroyed’ exhibition, in UK and Germany, and is currently co-curating ‘Resort’ with Karen Shepherdson for Turner Contemporary and tour. Her essay on Peter Mitchell will be published in the ‘New Refutation of the Viking 1V Space Mission’ in 2017 and she is also currently co-editing a book of photographs by Tish Murtha for the Tish Murtha Archive, publication late 2017.
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David Bate is a photo-artist, theorist and teacher. Recent writings include Photography: Key Concepts (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), which has already been translated into five other languages, Art Photography (London: Tate Publications, 2015) and the photo-essay book Zone(London: Artwords, 2012). He is Professor of Photography at the University of Westminster, London and co-editor ofPhotographies journal, which will hold its first international conference on Critical Issues in Photography Today here at the University of Westminster (at the Regent Street Campus) on 18-19 May 2017.
E: [email protected]
Dr. Ben Burbridge
Ben Burbridge is senior lecturer in art history and co-director of the Centre for Photography and Visual Culture at University of Sussex. His writing on photography, contemporary art, and politics has been published widely. Curated exhibitions include Revelations: Experiments in Photography (Media Space/National Media Museum 2015) and the 2012 Brighton Photo Biennial, Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space. Burbridge is co-editor of Photoworks and co-founder of Ph: The Photography Research Network. He is currently working on a book about photography, contemporary art, and neoliberalism.
E: [email protected]
Anna Dannemann
Anna Dannemann is Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. She has curated numerous group shows including Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, the international touring exhibition Work, Rest and Play – 50 Years of British Photography (2015-2016) and FreshFaced+WildEyed (2013-2015), and is currently developing an exhibition around themes of Food and Networking. She has also curated several solo shows among them, Charlotte Dumas’ Anima & The Widest Prairies (2015), Viviane Sassen's Analemma (2014), and an exhibition of the photographic work of acclaimed writer and cult figure William Burroughs. She regularly contributes to catalogues and other publications and received an MA in Art and Visual History at the Humboldt-University Berlin.
E: [email protected]
Dr. Sara Davidmann
Reader in Photography, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London and member of PARC. Sara Davidmann is an artist/photographer. In 2007, Sara was awarded a PhD in Photography (practice-based) from London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. For 15 years Sara took photographs/recorded oral histories in collaboration with people from UK transgender/queer communities (1999-2014). Her current project is Ken. To be destroyed. Sara’s work is internationally exhibited and published. Exhibitions include Schwules Museum, Berlin (2016), Liverpool Museum (2014), LimeWharf Gallery London (2014), Homotopia Liverpool (2013), LGBT Centre Paris (2009), Somatechnics Sydney (2009). Publications include Crossing the Line, Dewi Lewis (2003), a chapter in Transgender Experience, Routledge (2014), and she was guest co-editor of Journal of Photography & Culture Special Issue Queering Photography (2014). Awards include a Philip Leverhulme Prize, a Fulbright Hays Scholarship, 4 Arts and Humanities Research Council awards, an Association of Commonwealth Universities Fellowship and a Wellcome Trust Grant.
E: [email protected]
Dr. Christopher Morton
Christopher Morton is Curator of Photograph and Manuscript Collections and Lecturer in Visual and Material Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He has published extensively on the relationship between photography, anthropology, and museum collections. Recent co-edited books include The African Photographic Archive: Research and Curatorial Strategies (Bloomsbury 2015) and Photographs, Museums, Collections: Between Art and Information (Bloomsbury 2015). He is currently writing a book for OUP on the field photography of anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard.
E: [email protected]
Dr. Karen Shepherdson
Karen Shepherdson is a photographer, curator and writer. She is Reader in Photography at Canterbury Christ Church University and Director of the UK’s South East Archive of Seaside (SEAS) Photography. Her research and practice focuses on coastal communities that have endured chronic cultural and social underinvestment and how common ground is used as sites for potential wellbeing and community ‘repair’. She has exhibited in the UK, Scandinavia and the USA. Karen has received a number of external funding awards for research and she regularly creates national and international partnerships for practice and exhibition. She has curated several festivals and exhibitions that celebrate place and space and more recently still, Karen has been commissioned with Val Williams to co-curate an international photographic exhibition at Turner Contemporary Gallery, Margate UK (Spring, 2019) which examines the British seaside as photograph.
E: [email protected]
Dr. Kelley Wilder
Kelley Wilder is Reader in Photographic History at De Montfort University, Leicester, and Director of the Photographic History Research Centre. She researches and writes about photographs between art and science, from the Nineteenth century to practising photographers of today. She is co-author with Gregg Mitman of Documenting the World: Film Photography and the Scientific Record (Chicago, 2016).
E: [email protected]
Professor Val Williams
Val Williams is a curator and writer, and is Professor of the History and Culture of Photography at the University of the Arts London, Director of the Photography and the Archive Research Centre and of the Moose on the Loose Biennale of Research. She is also an editor of the Journal of Photography & Culture.
Curated projects include How We Are (Tate Britain; Daniel Meadows : Early Photographs (Library of Birmingham and touring); Warworks (Victoria &Albert Museum and touring ); Martin Parr Retrospective(Barbican Art Gallery and touring ) ; The Dead (National Media Museum and touring); Who’s Looking at the Family? (Barbican Art Gallery).
She has now worked on three versions of the Ken’ To be destroyed’ exhibition, in UK and Germany, and is currently co-curating ‘Resort’ with Karen Shepherdson for Turner Contemporary and tour. Her essay on Peter Mitchell will be published in the ‘New Refutation of the Viking 1V Space Mission’ in 2017 and she is also currently co-editing a book of photographs by Tish Murtha for the Tish Murtha Archive, publication late 2017.
E: [email protected]