Tag: history of photography

  • Two weeks until PTI Summer Art Enrichment

    I am very excited to be back in person for this summer’s Prince’s Trust Institute Summer Art Enrichment on 2 July in Cambridge. There are a great collection of talks on the day, including mine on Reconsidering Medical Photography for the classroom: We already know that photographs are not objective,…

  • Truth in Portraiture: Nairn Book & Arts Festival

    Truth in Portraiture: Nairn Book & Arts Festival

    Thank you to everyone who came to the Nairn Book & Arts Festival this year. I always enjoy this festival, and find some of the most engaging audiences. This year I was considering the narrative of ‘truth’ and authentic identity across the history of portraiture. We had some really fantastic…

  • PTI Summer session: Rethinking Medical Photography for the classroom

    PTI Summer session: Rethinking Medical Photography for the classroom

    This weekend I led a session at the Princes Trust Institute Art Enrichment Residential on Rethinking Medical Photography. It’s always a fantastic experience to work with the PTI, because you get to work with teachers and consider how to get students engaged at all different year levels in the history…

  • Autumn 2018

    Moving into autumn, I am happy to look back on a productive and quiet summer of writing and researching.   In June my first poem was published in Door=Jar Magazine (Issue 7), and my ‘Beauty and Alienation in Medical Photography” paper came out in Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine.  I also have done…

  • Summer 2018

    Summer brings new publications – academic and creative – while working on children’s literature and helping artists apply for competition.