Justin Carville
@justinmcarville.bsky.social
Photography Historian | Researcher | Writer | Academic | Public Sector Worker | The Ungovernable Eye | Currently writing on photography, racialization and Ireland | Values and Opinions my own
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Contact Zones | Leuven University Press
The role of photography in U.S. migrant histories Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United Sta...
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Contact Zones: Photography, Migration and Cultural Encounters in the United States, eds. Justin Carville & Sigrid Lien. (Leuven: Leuven University Press). Available in paperback and Open Access at LUP and @jstor.bsky.social
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Final reminder that this incredible online seminar is on Monday! Join us to discuss all things related to consent and ethics in medical photography with Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Dr Arya Thampuran and Dr Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson78.bsky.social empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2025/11/07/o...
Online Seminar: ETHICS AND CONSENT IN MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY – The Ethics of Medical Photography Network
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December 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Final reminder that this incredible online seminar is on Monday! Join us to discuss all things related to consent and ethics in medical photography with Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Dr Arya Thampuran and Dr Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson78.bsky.social empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2025/11/07/o...
“When you’ve been taking photographs for 45, 50 years like me, you have got to embrace that sense of time passing, that it will come to an end, that my ability to take photographs will end,” he says. “It’s not a question of looking back, looking forward. …
Keeping in close Proximity with Stephen McCoy's very personal work - 1854 Photography
Testament to staying true to one’s roots, Stephen McCoy’s Proximity is on show at the Martin Parr Foundation until 21 December
www.1854.photography
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“When you’ve been taking photographs for 45, 50 years like me, you have got to embrace that sense of time passing, that it will come to an end, that my ability to take photographs will end,” he says. “It’s not a question of looking back, looking forward. …
Here, the camera played a critical role. In ways that could not be captured in written sources, photographs demonstrate women taking nationalist activities into their own hands: challenging policemen, drumming up support for boycotts, addressing crowds, directing salt production, and courting arrest
India freedom struggle: The hidden heroines found in long-lost photographs
Newly found photos highlight women’s key role in Mahatma Gandhi’s civil disobedience movement against British rule.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Here, the camera played a critical role. In ways that could not be captured in written sources, photographs demonstrate women taking nationalist activities into their own hands: challenging policemen, drumming up support for boycotts, addressing crowds, directing salt production, and courting arrest
Like Frank, Anastasia Samoylova has an immigrant’s view of the United States, one conditioned by a life outside it.
Anastasia Samoylova Maps a Decaying American Dream
In 2023, the photographer began a journey along the Atlantic Coast, tracing the ruins and resilience of postindustrial life on US Route 1.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Like Frank, Anastasia Samoylova has an immigrant’s view of the United States, one conditioned by a life outside it.
I have always had admiration for Kirby Miller’s scholarship - it’s now at a new level for taking a principled and human stance on this issue
Third honoree turns down doctorate from University of Galway over links to Israeli tech institute
Professor Miller declined the honour, citing the university’s research partnership with Israel’s Technion Institute.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I have always had admiration for Kirby Miller’s scholarship - it’s now at a new level for taking a principled and human stance on this issue
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
Constance Jaeggi travelled across the US to document the Mexican tradition escaramuza, photographing participants and recording their stories. Escaramuza is a unique sport: part ballet, part cavalry moves and something all its own – a dazzling display of skilled horsewomanship, art and power.
It’s the cavalry! The horsewomen of escaramuza – in pictures
They wear Victorian dresses and make daring moves riding side-saddle. Photographer Constance Jaeggi on how she documented an all-female Mexican tradition
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November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Constance Jaeggi travelled across the US to document the Mexican tradition escaramuza, photographing participants and recording their stories. Escaramuza is a unique sport: part ballet, part cavalry moves and something all its own – a dazzling display of skilled horsewomanship, art and power.
Rooted in Somaliland, born in Oslo and shaped by international travel across Europe, Africa and America, Ayan Abdi’s work is a mosaic of photography and moving images that traces intergenerational African experiences across the continent and the diaspora.
Ayan Abdi's contemporary portrait of kinship across the Global African Diaspora - 1854 Photography
The Somali-Norwegian photographer’s project Family in Focus was developed across several countries and continents, asking what a family constitutes
www.1854.photography
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Rooted in Somaliland, born in Oslo and shaped by international travel across Europe, Africa and America, Ayan Abdi’s work is a mosaic of photography and moving images that traces intergenerational African experiences across the continent and the diaspora.
Doolough Valley, Co Mayo
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Doolough Valley, Co Mayo
Capard, Rosenallis, Co Laois
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Capard, Rosenallis, Co Laois
“When women gather, we uplift one another, and we seek solutions. We soothe one another. Creativity is not reserved for the lucky few; it’s within us all. What we often need is the confidence to pursue it, and this is a driving force within IFP.”
Through their eyes: Meet the women in Iraq using photography to create solidarity - 1854 Photography
Iraqi Female Photographers is a collective addressing systemic sexism, a lack of women’s stories and institutional support in the country
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November 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
“When women gather, we uplift one another, and we seek solutions. We soothe one another. Creativity is not reserved for the lucky few; it’s within us all. What we often need is the confidence to pursue it, and this is a driving force within IFP.”
Silver Strand, Thallabawn, Louisburgh, Co Mayo
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Silver Strand, Thallabawn, Louisburgh, Co Mayo
It’s when Arbus photographs the rest of us, the ones the camera does not love, that she can do what very few photographers achieve and reveal a personal vision of life, albeit a grotesquely bleak one.
Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum review – a grotesquely bleak but brutally truthful vision of humanity
From cruel pictures of elderly widows to a shocking image of motherhood, the American photographer’s genius is on full display in a show that finds ugliness all around her
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November 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
It’s when Arbus photographs the rest of us, the ones the camera does not love, that she can do what very few photographers achieve and reveal a personal vision of life, albeit a grotesquely bleak one.
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
In 2023, Craig Easton was invited to stay at Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura in Scotland, where between 1946 and 1949 George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. Easton made a series of images with a large format camera, toning the prints in strong tea in homage to the author.
‘The only danger here is snakes’: where Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four – in pictures
Photographer Craig Easton retraced the author’s years on Jura, the Hebridean island where he wrote his dystopian masterpiece – and nearly drowned in a whirlpool
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November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
In 2023, Craig Easton was invited to stay at Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura in Scotland, where between 1946 and 1949 George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. Easton made a series of images with a large format camera, toning the prints in strong tea in homage to the author.
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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...
Mount Leinster, Co Carlow
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Mount Leinster, Co Carlow
Croagh Patrick, Co Mayo
November 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Croagh Patrick, Co Mayo
Across the work of the thirteen artists in this exhibition – photography, painting, textiles, video and more brought together under an expanded understanding of collage – the questioning and augmenting of the historical canon and official archives is a running theme.
A new show at Autograph examines the power and legacy of collage as a creative act - 1854 Photography
I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies invites new perspectives on social histories through mixed-media image making
www.1854.photography
November 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Across the work of the thirteen artists in this exhibition – photography, painting, textiles, video and more brought together under an expanded understanding of collage – the questioning and augmenting of the historical canon and official archives is a running theme.
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A higher ground…
Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder) | Playing For Change | Song Around the World
YouTube video by Playing For Change
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October 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
A higher ground…
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We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist
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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October 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist
Michael Cook (born 1968) was adopted at birth into a non-Indigenous family. While cut off from the connection to his biological and social Aboriginal heritage, he was fortunate enough to have an adoptive family who embraced his Aboriginality and empowered him to imagine what that might mean for him
Colonial inversions and parliamentary takeovers: the strange, surreal photos of Michael Cook – in pictures
Conditioned takes a retrospective dive into the Bidjara artist’s oeuvre of layered, stylised photographs, prising open the space between Indigenous and European perspectives and experiences
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October 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Michael Cook (born 1968) was adopted at birth into a non-Indigenous family. While cut off from the connection to his biological and social Aboriginal heritage, he was fortunate enough to have an adoptive family who embraced his Aboriginality and empowered him to imagine what that might mean for him
Clew Bay, Co Mayo
October 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Clew Bay, Co Mayo
In 1881, after working for many years with the European photographers Felice Beato and Baron Raimund von Stillfried as a photographic colourist and assistant, the Japanese photographer Kusakabe Kimbei finally opened his own workshop in the Benten-dōri quarter of Yokohama.
Kusakabe Kimbei’s Photographs of Late 19th-Century Japan
Photographs depicting everyday scenes in 19th-century Japan by Kusakabe Kimbei.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In 1881, after working for many years with the European photographers Felice Beato and Baron Raimund von Stillfried as a photographic colourist and assistant, the Japanese photographer Kusakabe Kimbei finally opened his own workshop in the Benten-dōri quarter of Yokohama.