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.
