I'm really looking forward to joining the Anthropocene Working Group at Dartmouth tonight to talk about Camera Geologica

Really looking forward to presenting at A Sensitive Matter: More-Than-Human Agencies and the Histories of Photography organized by Cristina Baldacci and Noemi Quagliati at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

And that's a wrap on Chemical Histories of Photography at The University of Basel, organized by the brilliant Katerina Korola. What an inspiring few days thinking about photography's chemical relations, including a chemigram workshop by Alice Cazenave + a walking tour of Basel's chemical histories

What an honor to speak about technology, materials, and labor at the Creative Convening for "The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910" at The Met. The exhibition runs through July 20 and I can't recommend it enough! You can watch the whole event here: www.youtube.com/live/6Clotse...

It was such a pleasure to participate in the HTC Forum at MIT- what a great discussion!

Next Tuesday at Cornell! This is the first talk from a project on the visual culture of fertilizer extraction (a collaboration w/ Jenny Raab), which turns to bones, guano, and coral to think through American expansionism and settler colonialism both above and below ground

What a gift to be in dialogue with Abraham Oghobase on photography and extraction for the 2025 Goldfarb Lecture in Visual Art at York University, chaired by Sarah Parsons

What a great visit to the Library and Archives Canada Preservation Centre with my Material Histories of Photography class. The archive houses more than 30 million photographs, including a pannotype—a cased photograph printed on leather.

Pretty thrilled that Camera Geologica was shortlisted for College Art Association's Charles Rufus Morey Book Award alongside some brilliant books. @dukepress.bsky.social

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It was great to see a full house for the UAAC-AAUC panel 'Countering Narratives of Resource Extraction,' held in the heartland of Canada's oil and gas industry at The Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity--which as we were reminded, artwashes the oil and gas industry

Image Ecology opened at C/O Berlin last week, tracking photography through the categories of Energy, Material, Labor, and Waste. There is also a stunning catalog, which includes a short essay I wrote, and a great, much longer essay by Jason W. Moore www.co-berlin.org/en/program/e...

Louie Palu's Cage Call is on view at The Image Center. It's one of mining photography's most extensive and significant bodies of work, with a particular focus on labor histories. Plus there is a neat artists newspaper that I wrote an essay for. Highly recommend! theimagecentre.ca/exhibition/l...

Botero's luscious fruits are my current obsession

Happened to pass by the refinery fire and naphtha chemical leak at Marathon Petroleum in St. John the Baptist Parish while en route to The Whitney Plantation Museum. A devastating reminder of geographies of environmental racism that link the extraction of sugar, cotton, oil, and petrochemicals