Spring/Summer 2019
Image from ‘Flinking,’ A site specific installation for Arthouses, Whitley Bay, Alexandra Hughes
Exhibitions:
Alexandra Hughes: ‘Shimmer,’ Baltic Studios 39, Newcastle
Alexandra Hughes: ‘Flinking,’ A site specific installation for Arthouses, Whitley Bay
Annalisa Sonzogni: ‘Playing around the Docks,’ a documentary film commission with Liverpool School of Architecture and Tate Liverpool.
Events Convened:
Caroline Molloy: Convener of Photography and Collaboration conference in association with the Association of Photographers in Higher Education, Coventry University.
Caroline Molloy: Convener ‘Photography and the Archive: Activating Archives,’ research symposium in association with the Family Ties Network at Regents University.
Research Papers/Artist Talks:
Estefani Bouza and Annalisa Sonzogni: Introduce ‘Bridging the distance: a collaborative photography research project.’ Arts week Birkbeck University of London.
Estefani Bouza: Research paper ‘Collecting Fragments: The Metaphor of the Rag-picker in Zoe Leonard’s Analogue’. EFTI. Madrid, Spain.
Estefani Bouza: Research paper ‘Infinity'. Space and Belonging Symposium: Narratives of Migration, Materials and Gentrification. University for the Creative Arts (UCA)
Estefani Bouza: Research paper 'Piecing Things Together: Montage in Infinity'. Shaping Knowledge: Encounters between Word and Image Symposium. University of Kent.
Paula Gortázar: 2019. ‘Subjective Documentary Photography in ‘‘Normalised’’ Czechoslovakia (1968-89). Decoding Vladimír Birgus’ Work’. Fotocinema19: 101-123.
Paula Gortázar: 2019. ‘Toward an Emancipation of Photographic Vision: “Visualism” Under Czechoslovakian “Normalization” (1968–89)’. Photography and Culture 12 (2): 151-170.
Caroline Molloy: Research paper, ‘Family Photographs: looking at transcultural images as mnemonic devices,’ at the Material Cultures and Migration workshop, Birkbeck & University of Birmingham collaboration and at Coventry University Autumn Arts and Humanities Creative Research Symposium.
Gil Pasternak: Keynote presentation ‘Photography in Politics: Remembering and Being Together, With Photographs,’ at the 5th international annual conference After Post-Photography. European University in St Petersburg, Russia
Gil Pasternak: Research paper ‘Our Interests or Their Wishes?: Doing Community Cultural Heritage in the Age of Digital Memory,’ in the symposium Photography of Victims: Interpretations, Methods & Multi-Directional Memory. University of Nottingham.
Annalisa Sonzogni: Research paper, ‘Photographic Experience of Space,’ at Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art.
Written Publications:
Molloy, C. (2019) ‘Studio Photography as a conceptual framework,’ in Membrania special issue on Studio Photography (5) 38-47 (ISSN 2463-8501), Fotografija (ISSN 1408-3566) (Fotografija is in ERIH PLUS database)
Molloy, C. (2019) Essay in response to Ex Voto: Alys Tomlinson, 1000words Issue 30
Molloy, C. (2019) Interview with Indrè Šerytypè, Photomonitor
Pasternak, G. ed. (2019) ‘Photography in Transitioning European Communist and Post-Communist Histories’ (Special Issue). Photography & Culture 12(2).
Pasternak, G. (2019) ‘Photography in Transitioning European Communist and Post-Communist Histories.’ In Gil Pasternak, ed. ‘Photography in Transitioning European Communist and Post-Communist Histories’ (Special Issue). Photography & Culture 12(2): 139-149. DOI:
Pasternak, G., Ziętkiewicz, M. (2019) ‘Making a Home in Poland: Photographic Education and Practices in the Landkentnish Movement.’ IMAGES: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 12(1): 151-179. DOI:
Other:
Caroline Molloy: Recipient of HLF Living Memory development bursary.
Paula Gortázar: Special Issue Guest Editor, ‘Seeing Right: Amblyopia and The Optical Image’. In Fotocinema n.19, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2019.v2i19
Gil Pasternak: Curator of public display Voices from Our Photo Albums. Akrotiri Environmental Education Centre, Cyprus.
Highlights 2018-2019
Gil Pasternak: 2018-21 Project lead for Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts (DigiCONFLICT), European Commission Research Grant.
Gil Pasternak: Keynote presentation ‘Online Communities Offline: Digital Heritage in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’, at the international, interdisciplinary symposium Commemoration, Memory, Archive: Investigating Commemorative and Memorial Uses of Personal, Non-Professional Images in the Digital Age in the Global South. University of Sussex, UK.
Gil Pasternak: Research paper ‘Battling Xenophobia in the Polish Homeland: Photographic Education and Practices in the Jewish Landkentnish Movement (1926-1938),’ at the international research symposium Photography and Resistance: Reflections on Photography as a Medium of Resistance and as a Resistant Medium, University of Brighton, UK.
Gil Pasternak: Public talk: ‘Film Photography in a Digital World,’ on the Slow Seeing: The Analog in Photography panel organised AA Collections Talks series. AA School, UK.
Autumn/Winter 2019
Exhibitions:
Alexandra Hughes: ‘Sticky Together,’ Jakob Galeri, Worthing
Alexandra Hughes: Practice based participant in ‘Artists in the field,’ Explore conference, Royal Geographical Society, London.
Alexandra Hughes: Visual installation made in collaboration with DJ Bert Verso, Cumberland Arms, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Events Convened:
Oschi Klein: Co-organised ‘Performing photography: experience and engagement of photographic practices research symposium’ at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Gil Pasternak: ‘Photo Storytelling: Poles, Jews and Our Interrelated Heritage,’ Practice-based workshops on photographic digital heritage. De Montfort University (in partnership with Leicester Progressive Jewish Congregation and Project Polska).
Research Papers/Artist Talks:
Gil Pasternak: Keynote presentation ‘At Home with ‘Palestine’: Performing Historical Photographs of the West Bank in Israeli Households,’ at Photography as a Tool of Representation of Political Violence in the 20th Century, conference, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences/ Gagarin Center for Human Rights and Civil Society, St-Petersburg State University, Russia.
Gil Pasternak: Keynote presentation ‘Photography Studies: Transitioning and Enduring Concerns in the Expanding Field,’at Interpreting Photography, International conference Koc University, Turkey.
Gil Pasternak: Artist talk ‘Preserving Piotrków Trybunalski’s Jewish Heritage: Observations, Impressions, and Conclusions from Commemoration Trip 2019,’ in the annual memorial assembly for the Jews of Piotrków Trybunalski. Yad Vashem (Heichal Yahaduth Wolyn), Israel.
Gil Pasternak: Artist talk ‘What are Family Photographs Made to do at Home, in Public, and in Digital Heritage?’ Dudley College of Technology, UK.
Gil Pasternak: Artist talk ‘Photographs in Interpersonal Relations and Cultural Diplomacy,’ Wolverhampton School of Art. University of Wolverhampton (UK).
Gil Pasternak: Artist Talk ‘“Old”’ Photographs as Historical Sources in a Digital World,’ a class on digitised photographic cultural heritage. Episkopi Primary School for British Service Families.
Written Publications:
Caroline Molloy: 2019 Review: Blight, D. C. (ed.) (2019) The Image of White-ness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization. The Journal of Visual Practice Taylor and Francis.
Caroline Molloy: 2019 Review: Gartlan, L., Wue, R. (2017) Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan. Visual Studies: I.B.Tauris.
Caroline Molloy: 2019 Review Straight lines and Human Intervention, Dafna Talmor, Photomonitor.
Caroline Molloy: Interview with Mark Sealy, 1000words Issue 31
Caroline Molloy: Review of Some are born to endless night dark matters, Lina Iris Viktor, Photomonitor
Pasternak, G., Ziętkiewic, M. (2019) ‘Making a Home in Poland: Photographic Education and Practices in the Landkentnish Movement.’ IMAGES: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 12(1): 151-179. DOI: 04
Other:
Paula Gortàzar: Appointed editorial board member of open access journal FotoCinema
Highlights 2018-2019
Gil Pasternak: 2018-21 Project lead for Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts (DigiCONFLICT), European Commission Research Grant.
Gil Pasternak: Keynote presentation ‘Online Communities Offline: Digital Heritage in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’, at the international, interdisciplinary symposium Commemoration, Memory, Archive: Investigating Commemorative and Memorial Uses of Personal, Non-Professional Images in the Digital Age in the Global South. University of Sussex, UK.
Gil Pasternak: Research paper ‘Battling Xenophobia in the Polish Homeland: Photographic Education and Practices in the Jewish Landkentnish Movement (1926-1938),’ at the international research symposium Photography and Resistance: Reflections on Photography as a Medium of Resistance and as a Resistant Medium, University of Brighton, UK.
Gil Pasternak: Public talk: ‘Film Photography in a Digital World,’ on the Slow Seeing: The Analog in Photography panel organised AA Collections Talks series. AA School, UK.