Browsing School of Humanities by Research Institute "Media Discourse Centre (MDC)"
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Amateur Photography, The Final Frontier: Developing Histories of Marginalised Popular Photographic Practices
(Presentation)My talk explored whether it is possible or desirable to position unaccounted for amateur photographic practices in relation to other dominant histories of photography. Considering how exclusive and limited the field of ... -
“… And I will Live Forever”: The Intimate Politics of Family Photographs
(Presentation)This invited talk investigated the practice of family photography and its interrelationship with the social domain, with state politics, and issues of cultural difference, class, nationalism and racism. Addressing some ... -
Artistic Occupation: Camouflaging Difference in Photographic Imagery of the Middle East
(Presentation)In this invited presentation I looked into processes of cultural exchange and hybridisation carried out in and through photographic practices and images. It focused on nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century ... -
At Home with Palestine: Performing Historical Domestic Photographs of the West Bank in Israeli Households
(Presentation)Only a week after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war ended, Israeli citizens began traveling to the territories conquered by the Israeli Defense Forces in the recent battles with Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Commonly carrying cameras, ... -
“Bad Photos”: A Political Theorisation of Lomography
(Conference)In recent years vernacular photographic practices have become integral participants in the formation of narratives within the media, the art sphere, as well as academic discourses on global and local political phenomena. ... -
Beyond Intimacy: The Radical Conventions of Family Photography
(Presentation)Drawing upon my talk at the Photographers’ Gallery – “… And I will Live Forever” (18 Sept. 2012) – this talk expanded my investigation into the practice of family photography and its interrelationship with politics and the ... -
Beyond the Familial Impulse: Domestic Photography and Sociocultural History in Post-communist Poland, 1989-1996
(Article)In 1994 the Jewish-Polish Shalom Foundation announced a photographic contest whose intention was to reconstruct the social and cultural histories of Polish Jews who lived in the geographical region of Poland before, during ... -
Crushing Communism, Realising Democracy: Public Photographic Displays and Polish Sociocultural Politics in the 1980s and 1990s
(Conference)Our paper explored attempts made by Polish intellectuals to reorganise Poland’s sociocultural politics between the 1980s and 1990s through the installation of strategic photographic displays that explicitly challenged the ...