Dr Sara Dominici
@saradominici.bsky.social
Reader in Photographic History & Visual Culture | Writing a book on the photographic darkroom 1850s-1910s I Editor at Visual Culture in Britain https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/researcher/886x9?sec
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Very pleased to have an article in the 10th anniversary issue of Transbordeur: Photographie histoire société. It's a truly beautiful edition, huge thanks to the editorial team for all their work on this! journals.openedition.org/transbordeur...
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Call For Papers: @forarthistory.org.uk annual conference 2027 - along with Holly O’Farrell (IADT) we are co-convening a session on photo-albums and colonialism and welcome submissions from all stages of researchers; follow link for guidelines below;
forarthistory.org.uk/conference-2...
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87. The Album as Archive – photography, materiality and colonialism. - For Art History
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...
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September 27, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Call For Papers: @forarthistory.org.uk annual conference 2027 - along with Holly O’Farrell (IADT) we are co-convening a session on photo-albums and colonialism and welcome submissions from all stages of researchers; follow link for guidelines below;
forarthistory.org.uk/conference-2...
forarthistory.org.uk/conference-2...
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“The significance of the ‘Handsworth Self Portrait’ project images as important historical documents for understanding the politicized field of photography and the local black community’s cultural forms of resistance” — Na’ama Klorman Eraqi’s article now is online www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The ‘Handsworth Self Portrait‘ Project: Listening to Photographs, Resisting Racism, and the Rhythm of Black Handsworth
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...
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August 24, 2026 at 8:26 AM
“The significance of the ‘Handsworth Self Portrait’ project images as important historical documents for understanding the politicized field of photography and the local black community’s cultural forms of resistance” — Na’ama Klorman Eraqi’s article now is online www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Following the seminars held in 2019, 2023, and 2025, we are delighted to host, for the fourth time, a week-long photo-historical seminar at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome in March 2027.
Here is the call:
biblhertz.iwww.mpg.de/3792978/2606...
The application deadline is August 31, 2026.
Here is the call:
biblhertz.iwww.mpg.de/3792978/2606...
The application deadline is August 31, 2026.
June 12, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Following the seminars held in 2019, 2023, and 2025, we are delighted to host, for the fourth time, a week-long photo-historical seminar at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome in March 2027.
Here is the call:
biblhertz.iwww.mpg.de/3792978/2606...
The application deadline is August 31, 2026.
Here is the call:
biblhertz.iwww.mpg.de/3792978/2606...
The application deadline is August 31, 2026.
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One week left to register at our conference #PHRC26 Photography's Tacit Knowledge! We have an amazing programme with speakers from all over the world and THREE (3!) keynotes! Check out the programme and register here: photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
Annual Conference 2026
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…
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June 7, 2026 at 2:29 PM
One week left to register at our conference #PHRC26 Photography's Tacit Knowledge! We have an amazing programme with speakers from all over the world and THREE (3!) keynotes! Check out the programme and register here: photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
Very pleased to have an article in the 10th anniversary issue of Transbordeur: Photographie histoire société. It's a truly beautiful edition, huge thanks to the editorial team for all their work on this! journals.openedition.org/transbordeur...
April 20, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Very pleased to have an article in the 10th anniversary issue of Transbordeur: Photographie histoire société. It's a truly beautiful edition, huge thanks to the editorial team for all their work on this! journals.openedition.org/transbordeur...
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Registration for our annual conference is open!!
Photography’s Tacit Knowledge, 15-16 June 2026 #PHRC26 @phrc-dmu.bsky.social | Registration for our annual conference now open! Follow the link shorturl.at/eh3aH for more information on registration and the event's programme #photography #photohist #VisualCulture #history #Epistemology #Heritage
Annual Conference 2026
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…
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March 30, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Registration for our annual conference is open!!
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The deadline for our essay prize is 27 April — please do share and submit! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...
March 30, 2026 at 4:43 PM
The deadline for our essay prize is 27 April — please do share and submit! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...
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So pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded PhD opportunity co-supervised with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG):
"Collaborative Research as Pedagogical Method: Reinterpreting Photographic Collections at the RGS-IBG"
Deadline: 30 April. Full details here: lnkd.in/euQvMmrR
"Collaborative Research as Pedagogical Method: Reinterpreting Photographic Collections at the RGS-IBG"
Deadline: 30 April. Full details here: lnkd.in/euQvMmrR
February 4, 2026 at 9:36 AM
So pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded PhD opportunity co-supervised with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG):
"Collaborative Research as Pedagogical Method: Reinterpreting Photographic Collections at the RGS-IBG"
Deadline: 30 April. Full details here: lnkd.in/euQvMmrR
"Collaborative Research as Pedagogical Method: Reinterpreting Photographic Collections at the RGS-IBG"
Deadline: 30 April. Full details here: lnkd.in/euQvMmrR
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4 weeks today we will be celebrating #InternationalWomen’sDay with our 2026 online Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March.
Join 72 speakers over 24 hours travelling across the world beginning with photography of Antarctica. Registration is open and free.
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Join 72 speakers over 24 hours travelling across the world beginning with photography of Antarctica. Registration is open and free.
womenofphoto.com
Women of Photography
Join us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography.
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February 8, 2026 at 8:33 AM
4 weeks today we will be celebrating #InternationalWomen’sDay with our 2026 online Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March.
Join 72 speakers over 24 hours travelling across the world beginning with photography of Antarctica. Registration is open and free.
womenofphoto.com
Join 72 speakers over 24 hours travelling across the world beginning with photography of Antarctica. Registration is open and free.
womenofphoto.com
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I have a few book launches/ talks coming up:
26 March, London The Photographers' Gallery - talk, thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/tal...
28 April, Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery - in conversation with Prof. Sarah E. James. openeye.org.uk/whatson/book...
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26 March, London The Photographers' Gallery - talk, thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/tal...
28 April, Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery - in conversation with Prof. Sarah E. James. openeye.org.uk/whatson/book...
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Talk: Michelle Henning on Photography's Dirty History
Rethink photography as a ma
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February 20, 2026 at 1:41 PM
I have a few book launches/ talks coming up:
26 March, London The Photographers' Gallery - talk, thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/tal...
28 April, Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery - in conversation with Prof. Sarah E. James. openeye.org.uk/whatson/book...
…
26 March, London The Photographers' Gallery - talk, thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/tal...
28 April, Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery - in conversation with Prof. Sarah E. James. openeye.org.uk/whatson/book...
…
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PHRC’s Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures & Heritage | Join us this Thurs, 19 Feb 2026, 5:30pm (GMT/UTC) for a talk by Donna West Brett, who will look at the rise of the photobook and its cultural and political uses. Attendance free but registration required: shorturl.at/YvVTs. All welcome!
Spring 2026 #1
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 …
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February 14, 2026 at 5:53 PM
PHRC’s Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures & Heritage | Join us this Thurs, 19 Feb 2026, 5:30pm (GMT/UTC) for a talk by Donna West Brett, who will look at the rise of the photobook and its cultural and political uses. Attendance free but registration required: shorturl.at/YvVTs. All welcome!
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JOB: PhD Position, University of Westminster & Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
https://arthist.net/archive/51714
https://arthist.net/archive/51714
PhD Position, University of Westminster & Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Sara Dominici, University of Westminster. London, 01.10.2026, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.04.2026
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February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
JOB: PhD Position, University of Westminster & Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
https://arthist.net/archive/51714
https://arthist.net/archive/51714
So pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded PhD opportunity co-supervised with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG):
"Collaborative Research as Pedagogical Method: Reinterpreting Photographic Collections at the RGS-IBG"
Deadline: 30 April. Full details here: lnkd.in/euQvMmrR
"Collaborative Research as Pedagogical Method: Reinterpreting Photographic Collections at the RGS-IBG"
Deadline: 30 April. Full details here: lnkd.in/euQvMmrR
February 4, 2026 at 9:36 AM
So pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded PhD opportunity co-supervised with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG):
"Collaborative Research as Pedagogical Method: Reinterpreting Photographic Collections at the RGS-IBG"
Deadline: 30 April. Full details here: lnkd.in/euQvMmrR
"Collaborative Research as Pedagogical Method: Reinterpreting Photographic Collections at the RGS-IBG"
Deadline: 30 April. Full details here: lnkd.in/euQvMmrR
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Teaching with material and visual culture - my favourite class of the year, in the Sudan Archive at Durham University. 🗃️📜📷📸🇸🇩
Teaching notes, no. 2: A material world
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…
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February 1, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Teaching with material and visual culture - my favourite class of the year, in the Sudan Archive at Durham University. 🗃️📜📷📸🇸🇩
We start next week!
Spanning eight weeks, this course goes behind the scenes to look at the different areas of work of The Photographer’s Gallery. More info 👇
Spanning eight weeks, this course goes behind the scenes to look at the different areas of work of The Photographer’s Gallery. More info 👇
Delighted to be leading this course at The Photographers' Gallery in the new year! We will explore both the day-to-day work and the long-term strategic vision of TPG to think through the opportunities and challenges of the photography sector today: thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/cou...
Course | Inside Out: The Workings of a Photographic Gallery
How are photographic instit
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January 24, 2026 at 4:52 PM
We start next week!
Spanning eight weeks, this course goes behind the scenes to look at the different areas of work of The Photographer’s Gallery. More info 👇
Spanning eight weeks, this course goes behind the scenes to look at the different areas of work of The Photographer’s Gallery. More info 👇
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To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!
Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize
Explore the article collection: Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize. Published in Visual Culture in Britain.
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October 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!
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They’ve arrived! It’s out!
January 7, 2026 at 8:08 PM
They’ve arrived! It’s out!
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It’s arrived!
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
It’s arrived!
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We’re doing a photography conference! Please circulate!
A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
December 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We’re doing a photography conference! Please circulate!
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This promises to be a great conference. The call for papers has been announced.
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
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#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
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Annual Conference 2026
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…
photographichistory.wordpress.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This promises to be a great conference. The call for papers has been announced.
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
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THE AGE OF PHOTOGRAPHS. 50 YEARS OF IMAGE PRESERVATION
Call for papers
tempsepreuves.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...
#photography
#conservation
#preservation
#conference
Call for papers
tempsepreuves.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...
#photography
#conservation
#preservation
#conference
Le temps des épreuves. 50 ans de préservation des photographies - Sciencesconf.org
The age of photographs. 50 years of image preservation.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
THE AGE OF PHOTOGRAPHS. 50 YEARS OF IMAGE PRESERVATION
Call for papers
tempsepreuves.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...
#photography
#conservation
#preservation
#conference
Call for papers
tempsepreuves.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...
#photography
#conservation
#preservation
#conference
Delighted to have an article in the latest issue of Photographica! My piece considers the experience of visuality of the flash in conjunction with that of the fixing of the latent-turning-visible image around the 1890s. Available OA in French and English: journals.openedition.org/photographic...
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Delighted to have an article in the latest issue of Photographica! My piece considers the experience of visuality of the flash in conjunction with that of the fixing of the latent-turning-visible image around the 1890s. Available OA in French and English: journals.openedition.org/photographic...
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Recently published; a short review of Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography, ed. Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad in latest issue of Norwegian-American Studies; muse.jhu.edu/issue/55851
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Recently published; a short review of Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography, ed. Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad in latest issue of Norwegian-American Studies; muse.jhu.edu/issue/55851
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The next Ethics of Medical Photography Network seminar will be on Mon 8 Dec, 2 pm UK time, online and we'll discuss a very hot topic: consent! We couldn't have better speakers: @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and Dr Arya Thampuran. Book your place here: forms.gle/QUxL41SwixUH...
The Ethics of Medical Photography Network Online Seminar
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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October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The next Ethics of Medical Photography Network seminar will be on Mon 8 Dec, 2 pm UK time, online and we'll discuss a very hot topic: consent! We couldn't have better speakers: @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and Dr Arya Thampuran. Book your place here: forms.gle/QUxL41SwixUH...
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What Will Photography Be? An Invitation to Speculate – the program of the 3rd Essen Symposium for Photography, featuring eleven speakers from seven countries, is online and registration is possible!
2026 – What Will Photography Be?
2026
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October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
What Will Photography Be? An Invitation to Speculate – the program of the 3rd Essen Symposium for Photography, featuring eleven speakers from seven countries, is online and registration is possible!