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Michelle Henning
@michellehenning.bsky.social
Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
I’m off to Basel soon for this:
October 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Doing my index- it’s a funny portrait of the book- here are some entries under p…
August 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I had a fantastic time at the terra.falmouth + sustainable darkroom conference “Sustainable Photography?” Last week- most relaxing conference I have ever been to possibly because of this location
July 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
A sneak preview of Eileen Perrier's show A Thousand Small Stories at
Autograph, London. We're very lucky to have got Eileen for an online talk this Wednesday 28th May at 3pm BST- it’s free, book here - www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...
May 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
And an author photo courtesy of Maria Mochnacz.
April 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I have a book cover! Cover image is by Wolfgang Suschitzky of a woman jumping a puddle on Charing Cross Rd in 1937. Cover b/w and silver. Details of book now on @uchicagopress.bsky.social at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
April 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
April 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I am doing a talk! Online (via zoom) on 24th April at 6pm CEST (Essen) which is 5pm GMT (Liverpool) or
12pm EDT (New York).
Please email tgf@folkwang-uni.de for the zoom link. Everybody is welcome!
April 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Luxury communism
April 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
In the park this morning- someone knows how to chill.
April 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
When you should be doing marking but you are distracted because your book design has come through and it looks lovely (thanks University of Chicago Press…)
March 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
New acquisition!
February 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Going over manuscript corrections on the train, the old school way…
February 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This morning …
February 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I give you the sunlight on the wall of my back porch.
February 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The first photos I took, as far as I know - when I was 8, for a pinhole camera competition in the Guardian.
January 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I wrote an article for this special issue on Darkrooms last year and it’s available open access www.eshph.org/journal/phot...
January 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Christmas gift - not a decorative table tennis bat but a glass slide holder. On the back it says “Thames, from Oxford to London Bridge” and the number 36. I don’t know if it was for inserting in a magic lantern or just holding up to the light.
December 26, 2024 at 6:11 PM
@john-parish.bsky.social ‘s album Screenplay is one of my favourite designs - on vinyl the best bit is when you open it up and it’s a double spread of the port of Athens.
December 22, 2024 at 7:02 PM
I designed a record cover for Lee Scratch Perry, sort of. Sadly he had died by the time I made the image, but this Dot Allison remix was one of the last things he did.
December 22, 2024 at 6:55 PM
I do occasionally (on other accounts) post my photos taken from trains like this - I hope it confuses any AI being trained on my pictures.
December 13, 2024 at 9:37 AM
I designed the (front) cover for this PJ Harvey live limited edition 7” record for Friendly Records - all proceeds to War Child. A/ I inside the Old Year Dying B/ The Glorious Land. Drawing by Polly Jean Harvey, mixed by John Parish and Oliver Baldwin.
November 30, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Nor is this one, but you get the gist. There’s also this
November 29, 2024 at 8:07 PM
It’s not the best…
November 29, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Do you need a picture of a double rainbow over the sea taken through a wet window in Cornwall? This I have.
November 29, 2024 at 8:02 PM