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
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...
I'm in Blackpool next week to give a talk about the darkroom. Join us if you are in the area! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/photograph...
August 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I'm in Blackpool next week to give a talk about the darkroom. Join us if you are in the area! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/photograph...
There is still time to apply for our AHRC CDP PhD studentship with Imperial War Museums! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
‘Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War
Deadline: 23 May 2025
‘Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War
Deadline: 23 May 2025
April 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
There is still time to apply for our AHRC CDP PhD studentship with Imperial War Museums! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
‘Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War
Deadline: 23 May 2025
‘Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War
Deadline: 23 May 2025
I am very excited to announce a new fully funded PhD opportunity with Imperial War Museums:
"'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War"
Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
"'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War"
Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
March 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I am very excited to announce a new fully funded PhD opportunity with Imperial War Museums:
"'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War"
Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
"'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War"
Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
So pleased to announce that the relaunch issue of @vcib.bsky.social is OUT! Huge thanks to all the contributors for helping us create this. Our cover features @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social's work and you can read more about it and so much more here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvcb20/2...
March 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
So pleased to announce that the relaunch issue of @vcib.bsky.social is OUT! Huge thanks to all the contributors for helping us create this. Our cover features @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social's work and you can read more about it and so much more here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvcb20/2...
Two weeks in, the part exposed to light has developed a darker/reddish tone and tiny black spots.
January 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Two weeks in, the part exposed to light has developed a darker/reddish tone and tiny black spots.
My long awaited visit to the NCC finally arrived today and it was so worth it!
I got to work with some incredible objects, supported by very helpful collections access and conservation teams, and ended with a fab tour of the incredible new storage hall thanks to @lauragrayblair.bsky.social
I got to work with some incredible objects, supported by very helpful collections access and conservation teams, and ended with a fab tour of the incredible new storage hall thanks to @lauragrayblair.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My long awaited visit to the NCC finally arrived today and it was so worth it!
I got to work with some incredible objects, supported by very helpful collections access and conservation teams, and ended with a fab tour of the incredible new storage hall thanks to @lauragrayblair.bsky.social
I got to work with some incredible objects, supported by very helpful collections access and conservation teams, and ended with a fab tour of the incredible new storage hall thanks to @lauragrayblair.bsky.social
“What the library is to the student or the laboratory to the chemist, the dark room is to the photographer. In it its operations are begun and ended; it is his workshop and storeroom in one.”
January 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“What the library is to the student or the laboratory to the chemist, the dark room is to the photographer. In it its operations are begun and ended; it is his workshop and storeroom in one.”
Huge thanks to @tonyrichards.bsky.social for a superb workshop on all things wet collodion at his amazing studio in Leigh. So excited to return to my book on the darkroom in light of this experience ✨
January 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Huge thanks to @tonyrichards.bsky.social for a superb workshop on all things wet collodion at his amazing studio in Leigh. So excited to return to my book on the darkroom in light of this experience ✨
I've started listening to the American Railroad podacast and I can't get enough of it. Beautifully produced, and exquisite scholarship. Highly recommended! www.silkroad.org/american-rai...
December 9, 2024 at 10:26 AM
I've started listening to the American Railroad podacast and I can't get enough of it. Beautifully produced, and exquisite scholarship. Highly recommended! www.silkroad.org/american-rai...
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s new exhibition on Jewish émigré Fred Kormis is exquisite. This woodcut in particular stuck with me: Kormis made it as a prisoner of war in Siberia during WWI, then took it with him when he fled Germany in 1933. Go if you can: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/f...
November 30, 2024 at 6:30 PM
The Wiener Holocaust Library’s new exhibition on Jewish émigré Fred Kormis is exquisite. This woodcut in particular stuck with me: Kormis made it as a prisoner of war in Siberia during WWI, then took it with him when he fled Germany in 1933. Go if you can: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/f...
Welcome @vcib.bsky.social to 🦋!
I am so excited to be one of the new editors-in-chief. The journal is relaunching later this year and we're now accepting articles and reviews for publication in 2025. More info here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...
I am so excited to be one of the new editors-in-chief. The journal is relaunching later this year and we're now accepting articles and reviews for publication in 2025. More info here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...
November 18, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Welcome @vcib.bsky.social to 🦋!
I am so excited to be one of the new editors-in-chief. The journal is relaunching later this year and we're now accepting articles and reviews for publication in 2025. More info here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...
I am so excited to be one of the new editors-in-chief. The journal is relaunching later this year and we're now accepting articles and reviews for publication in 2025. More info here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...
Excited to be in Paris next week for the Blinded by Light conference (Oct 17-18)!
I'll be giving a keynote lecture that considers the experience of visuality of the flash in conjunction with that of the fixing of the latent image. More here: flashsrevelations.weebly.com
I'll be giving a keynote lecture that considers the experience of visuality of the flash in conjunction with that of the fixing of the latent image. More here: flashsrevelations.weebly.com
October 9, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Excited to be in Paris next week for the Blinded by Light conference (Oct 17-18)!
I'll be giving a keynote lecture that considers the experience of visuality of the flash in conjunction with that of the fixing of the latent image. More here: flashsrevelations.weebly.com
I'll be giving a keynote lecture that considers the experience of visuality of the flash in conjunction with that of the fixing of the latent image. More here: flashsrevelations.weebly.com
My new article, "Photography and Early Motor Touring in Britain", is out in History of Photography. I look at the automobile’s early relationship with photography, and why it polarised photographers’ opinions like no other means of transport before. Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 31, 2024 at 8:14 AM
My new article, "Photography and Early Motor Touring in Britain", is out in History of Photography. I look at the automobile’s early relationship with photography, and why it polarised photographers’ opinions like no other means of transport before. Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Special issue on "The Darkroom: Chemical, Cultural, Industrial" now out!
You can read my introduction open access here: www.eshph.org/journal/phot...
You can read my introduction open access here: www.eshph.org/journal/phot...
April 5, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Special issue on "The Darkroom: Chemical, Cultural, Industrial" now out!
You can read my introduction open access here: www.eshph.org/journal/phot...
You can read my introduction open access here: www.eshph.org/journal/phot...
I am delighted to share this fully funded PhD on 'The Home Darkroom and the Freedom of Photographic Production in Britain, 1950s-present'. An AHRC CDP with me, @drhesslee.bsky.social, Pippa Catterall, and @ MuseumoftheHome Marina Maniadaki, Louis Platman. www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
March 22, 2024 at 10:39 AM
I am delighted to share this fully funded PhD on 'The Home Darkroom and the Freedom of Photographic Production in Britain, 1950s-present'. An AHRC CDP with me, @drhesslee.bsky.social, Pippa Catterall, and @ MuseumoftheHome Marina Maniadaki, Louis Platman. www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
PhD 🚨! Interested in finding out how camera & train interactions shaped ideas of leisure and heritage in Britain 1880s-1930s? Apply for this CDA with me, @drhesslee.bsky.social @ruthquinn.bsky.social Oliver Betts & Pippa Catterral! Applications deadline: 05 January www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEK361/p...
December 8, 2023 at 2:44 PM
PhD 🚨! Interested in finding out how camera & train interactions shaped ideas of leisure and heritage in Britain 1880s-1930s? Apply for this CDA with me, @drhesslee.bsky.social @ruthquinn.bsky.social Oliver Betts & Pippa Catterral! Applications deadline: 05 January www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEK361/p...
PhD Opportunity! "Photography by Train: New Leisure Experiences of Heritage in Britain, 1880s–1930s" will explore photography & train links by bringing the collections of the @RailwayMuseum and @MediaMuseum into conversation with one other @curatorconnelly.bsky.social @ruthquinn.bsky.social
December 5, 2023 at 12:53 PM
PhD Opportunity! "Photography by Train: New Leisure Experiences of Heritage in Britain, 1880s–1930s" will explore photography & train links by bringing the collections of the @RailwayMuseum and @MediaMuseum into conversation with one other @curatorconnelly.bsky.social @ruthquinn.bsky.social
Humanities Research Seminar 2023-2024
October 23, 2023 at 5:55 PM
Humanities Research Seminar 2023-2024