Dr Sara Dominici
@saradominici.bsky.social
Reader in Photographic History & Visual Culture | Writing a book on the experience of the photographic darkroom 1850s-1910s I Editor at Visual Culture in Britain https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/researcher/886x9?sec
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Delighted to have an article in the latest issue of Photographica! My piece considers the experience of visuality of the flash in conjunction with that of the fixing of the latent-turning-visible image around the 1890s. Available OA in French and English: journals.openedition.org/photographic...
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THE AGE OF PHOTOGRAPHS. 50 YEARS OF IMAGE PRESERVATION
Call for papers
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#photography
#conservation
#preservation
#conference
Call for papers
tempsepreuves.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...
#photography
#conservation
#preservation
#conference
Le temps des épreuves. 50 ans de préservation des photographies - Sciencesconf.org
The age of photographs. 50 years of image preservation.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
THE AGE OF PHOTOGRAPHS. 50 YEARS OF IMAGE PRESERVATION
Call for papers
tempsepreuves.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...
#photography
#conservation
#preservation
#conference
Call for papers
tempsepreuves.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...
#photography
#conservation
#preservation
#conference
Delighted to have an article in the latest issue of Photographica! My piece considers the experience of visuality of the flash in conjunction with that of the fixing of the latent-turning-visible image around the 1890s. Available OA in French and English: journals.openedition.org/photographic...
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Delighted to have an article in the latest issue of Photographica! My piece considers the experience of visuality of the flash in conjunction with that of the fixing of the latent-turning-visible image around the 1890s. Available OA in French and English: journals.openedition.org/photographic...
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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
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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...
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What Will Photography Be? An Invitation to Speculate – the program of the 3rd Essen Symposium for Photography, featuring eleven speakers from seven countries, is online and registration is possible!
2026 – What Will Photography Be?
2026
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October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
What Will Photography Be? An Invitation to Speculate – the program of the 3rd Essen Symposium for Photography, featuring eleven speakers from seven countries, is online and registration is possible!
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We are pleased to announce the PETE JAMES COLLECTION PRIZE 2026. The prize aims to support researchers with access to the collection and a prize of £1000.00 co-supported by Birmingham City Univeristy and our journal. Deadline for applications is 05 January 2026.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
We are pleased to announce the PETE JAMES COLLECTION PRIZE 2026. The prize aims to support researchers with access to the collection and a prize of £1000.00 co-supported by Birmingham City Univeristy and our journal. Deadline for applications is 05 January 2026.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...
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Introducing our editors: @saradominici.bsky.social, Gary Bratchford, Victoria Horne, and @ecoomasaru.bsky.social. Interested in publishing with us? Please do get in touch!
October 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Introducing our editors: @saradominici.bsky.social, Gary Bratchford, Victoria Horne, and @ecoomasaru.bsky.social. Interested in publishing with us? Please do get in touch!
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And the CFP for our conference is out! I'm particularly excited about the topic this year 🤓 can't wait to see all the proposals! We're a friendly bunch, and there's always a good mix of scholars at all stages from all over the world. Historians, curators, practitioners, all welcome!
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 10:25 AM
And the CFP for our conference is out! I'm particularly excited about the topic this year 🤓 can't wait to see all the proposals! We're a friendly bunch, and there's always a good mix of scholars at all stages from all over the world. Historians, curators, practitioners, all welcome!
Reposted by Dr Sara Dominici
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…
photographichistory.wordpress.com
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
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To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!
Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize
Explore the article collection: Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize. Published in Visual Culture in Britain.
www.tandfonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!
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We have a wonderful line up of speakers for our first Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage! #photohist
We're also happy to announce the Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, which start on 30 October, 5.30 pm with none other than Martha Langford! The seminars are all free and online, and you can register here: photographichistory.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/r... #photohist
Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage – Semester One 2025/26
PHRC is pleased to announce the launch of Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, a new, free, online series of talks and discussions exploring photography’s intersections with pol…
photographichistory.wordpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
We have a wonderful line up of speakers for our first Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage! #photohist
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We're also happy to announce the Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, which start on 30 October, 5.30 pm with none other than Martha Langford! The seminars are all free and online, and you can register here: photographichistory.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/r... #photohist
Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage – Semester One 2025/26
PHRC is pleased to announce the launch of Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, a new, free, online series of talks and discussions exploring photography’s intersections with pol…
photographichistory.wordpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
We're also happy to announce the Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, which start on 30 October, 5.30 pm with none other than Martha Langford! The seminars are all free and online, and you can register here: photographichistory.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/r... #photohist
Delighted to be leading this course at The Photographers' Gallery in the new year! We will explore both the day-to-day work and the long-term strategic vision of TPG to think through the opportunities and challenges of the photography sector today: thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/cou...
Course | Inside Out: The Workings of a Photographic Gallery
How are photographic instit
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October 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Delighted to be leading this course at The Photographers' Gallery in the new year! We will explore both the day-to-day work and the long-term strategic vision of TPG to think through the opportunities and challenges of the photography sector today: thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/cou...
To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!
Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize
Explore the article collection: Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize. Published in Visual Culture in Britain.
www.tandfonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!
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“Crystal Forms: A Victorian Aesthetics of Accident” is out in JVC!
I read James/Cecilia Glaisher’s snow-crystal images as a case study in accidental aesthetics—unsettling familiar stories about representation, mechanical objectivity, and lookalike forms in science + art ❄️❄️❄️
doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...
I read James/Cecilia Glaisher’s snow-crystal images as a case study in accidental aesthetics—unsettling familiar stories about representation, mechanical objectivity, and lookalike forms in science + art ❄️❄️❄️
doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...
October 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“Crystal Forms: A Victorian Aesthetics of Accident” is out in JVC!
I read James/Cecilia Glaisher’s snow-crystal images as a case study in accidental aesthetics—unsettling familiar stories about representation, mechanical objectivity, and lookalike forms in science + art ❄️❄️❄️
doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...
I read James/Cecilia Glaisher’s snow-crystal images as a case study in accidental aesthetics—unsettling familiar stories about representation, mechanical objectivity, and lookalike forms in science + art ❄️❄️❄️
doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...
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The book is finally sent to print, and we could not be prouder (or more exhausted)! 🤩🥵🫠 @thalesorlie.bsky.social @haraldol.bsky.social
«Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway. 📸
«Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway. 📸
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The book is finally sent to print, and we could not be prouder (or more exhausted)! 🤩🥵🫠 @thalesorlie.bsky.social @haraldol.bsky.social
«Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway. 📸
«Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway. 📸
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If you are in the North West, check out this talk. It's a panel and a book launch. It's a fantastic topic. Please repost!
How might hands reveal an inner self – a soul, a character, an identity?
Join us on 12 November at Lancaster University to explore this question with Professor Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales) as she presents her book, Decoding the Hand.
Tickets: thevictorianhand.uk/alison-bashf...
Join us on 12 November at Lancaster University to explore this question with Professor Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales) as she presents her book, Decoding the Hand.
Tickets: thevictorianhand.uk/alison-bashf...
October 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you are in the North West, check out this talk. It's a panel and a book launch. It's a fantastic topic. Please repost!
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Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:
photooxford.org/events/const...
photooxford.org/events/const...
Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
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October 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:
photooxford.org/events/const...
photooxford.org/events/const...
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What a great project 🤩
Resharing as many people thought was about a different kind of darkroom 😂
📸🏠🏳️🌈I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom/using a darkroom (in Britain) that felt like home.
If you are interested please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
📸🏠🏳️🌈I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom/using a darkroom (in Britain) that felt like home.
If you are interested please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
September 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
What a great project 🤩
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Resharing as many people thought was about a different kind of darkroom 😂
📸🏠🏳️🌈I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom/using a darkroom (in Britain) that felt like home.
If you are interested please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
📸🏠🏳️🌈I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom/using a darkroom (in Britain) that felt like home.
If you are interested please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
September 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Resharing as many people thought was about a different kind of darkroom 😂
📸🏠🏳️🌈I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom/using a darkroom (in Britain) that felt like home.
If you are interested please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
📸🏠🏳️🌈I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom/using a darkroom (in Britain) that felt like home.
If you are interested please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
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Shifting the Frame – Women’s Photographic Practices (1840–1960)
Call for papers (in English) for international conference at Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal, 5–7 March 2026. No registration fee. Deadline for abstracts 4 Oct 2025.
More info: womenphot.fba.up.pt/call-for-pap...
Call for papers (in English) for international conference at Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal, 5–7 March 2026. No registration fee. Deadline for abstracts 4 Oct 2025.
More info: womenphot.fba.up.pt/call-for-pap...
September 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Shifting the Frame – Women’s Photographic Practices (1840–1960)
Call for papers (in English) for international conference at Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal, 5–7 March 2026. No registration fee. Deadline for abstracts 4 Oct 2025.
More info: womenphot.fba.up.pt/call-for-pap...
Call for papers (in English) for international conference at Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal, 5–7 March 2026. No registration fee. Deadline for abstracts 4 Oct 2025.
More info: womenphot.fba.up.pt/call-for-pap...
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What does the future of medical and scientific imaging look like?
Join Dr Savannah Dodd, Susan Kett-Smart, Prof Mark Lythgoe, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Georgie Wileman & me as we explore ethics, innovation, and inclusion in image-making bit.ly/WPPPanelTalk
📷 Image credit: @georgiewileman.bsky.social
Join Dr Savannah Dodd, Susan Kett-Smart, Prof Mark Lythgoe, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Georgie Wileman & me as we explore ethics, innovation, and inclusion in image-making bit.ly/WPPPanelTalk
📷 Image credit: @georgiewileman.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
What does the future of medical and scientific imaging look like?
Join Dr Savannah Dodd, Susan Kett-Smart, Prof Mark Lythgoe, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Georgie Wileman & me as we explore ethics, innovation, and inclusion in image-making bit.ly/WPPPanelTalk
📷 Image credit: @georgiewileman.bsky.social
Join Dr Savannah Dodd, Susan Kett-Smart, Prof Mark Lythgoe, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Georgie Wileman & me as we explore ethics, innovation, and inclusion in image-making bit.ly/WPPPanelTalk
📷 Image credit: @georgiewileman.bsky.social
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Elisabetta Garletti examines "the power imbalance that endures in curatorial reframings where the hosting museum retains the authority over alleged decolonizing narratives, which ultimately reveal themselves to be mere attempts to safeguard institutional survival" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Imperial Heritage on Trial: Keith Piper’s Viva Voce at Tate Britain
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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September 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Elisabetta Garletti examines "the power imbalance that endures in curatorial reframings where the hosting museum retains the authority over alleged decolonizing narratives, which ultimately reveal themselves to be mere attempts to safeguard institutional survival" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Call for Papers for 'Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive', a symposium at The National Archives in London, 4 December 2025, is now open!
Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept
See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS
#envhum #envhist
Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept
See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS
#envhum #envhist
August 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The Call for Papers for 'Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive', a symposium at The National Archives in London, 4 December 2025, is now open!
Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept
See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS
#envhum #envhist
Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept
See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS
#envhum #envhist
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Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️🌈 Oral History Project
I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home.
If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home.
If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
September 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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