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Final call! 📸
Friday 9 Jan 2026 is the deadline to submit a paper proposal for #PHRC26, our international conference on Photography’s Tacit Knowledge.
Share your research & enjoy great company! Here is the CfP 👉🏼 tiny.cc/71au001 . #photography #photohist #arthistory
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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January 7, 2026 at 8:32 AM
hdichter.bsky.social
Do you work on sport & photography history - or one of those areas but have a great project idea that combines both? Come work with BOTH the amazing @phrc-dmu.bsky.social @ @icshc.bsky.social #sporthistory #photohist #skystorians 🗃️
December 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
beapichel.bsky.social
This is happening on Monday 8 December, 2.30 pm, online! It's going to be a fantastic seminar with Dr Ayra Thampuran, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, who will share short provocations on the topic of consent, followed by plenty of time for questions and discussion #photohist
beapichel.bsky.social Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · Nov 7
Sharing again the next online seminar, this time linking our website! empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2025/11/07/o... While consent always feature in conversations on ethics, how it can be applied or rethought in historical contexts leads to more questions than answers, as we'll see!
Online Seminar: ETHICS AND CONSENT IN MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY – The Ethics of Medical Photography Network
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November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
phrc-dmu.bsky.social
Our next online research seminar in Photographic Cultures & Heritage will be on 27 Nov, 5.30 pm UK time, with Pippa Oldfield and Tom Allbeson, who will discuss "Peace Photographies". Free and open to all, register here! photographichistory.wordpress.com/autumn-2025-2/ #photohist
Autumn 2025 #2
Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage Pippa Oldfield Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK Tom Allbeson Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Peace Photographies: Rethinking Photo…
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November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
beapichel.bsky.social
Really happy to participate in this conference on psychiatry photography in Paris in two weeks! historypsychiatry.com/2025/11/06/c... it's mostly in French but my panel on ethics it's in English. Check out the fantastic programme here #histmed #photohist
Conference: Les clichés de la folie: usages de la photographie en psychiatrie (XIXe–XXIe siècles), Paris (20–21 November 2025)
Dear Hmadness readers, We are happy to share the programme of the international conference Pictures of madness: uses of photography in psychiatry (19th–21st centuries) that will take place in …
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November 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
phrc-dmu.bsky.social
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
beapichel.bsky.social
We have a wonderful line up of speakers for our first Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage! #photohist
October 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
phrc-dmu.bsky.social
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…
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October 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
phrc-dmu.bsky.social
Hello #photohist! we're now in Bluesky just in time to announce plenty of news! First of all, our Director of almost 10 years Prof Kelley Wilder left DMU at the end of August. We miss her deeply but we're in excellent hands as Prof Gil Pasternak has become our new Director!
October 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
pccgb.bsky.social
This should be excellent #photohist
roseteanby.bsky.social Dr Rose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · Oct 5
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:

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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 12:36 PM
beapichel.bsky.social
This goes directly to the top of my reading list! #histmed #photohist #ethics
royalhistsoc.org Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Sep 24
New this week in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.

"Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography", by Alana Harris and Laura Mitchison bit.ly/4gH9e0f

#Skystorians 1/2
First page of new TRHS article: 'Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography' Abstract in full ‘Us and Them’ is a community history project and artistic collaboration exploring physical and intellectual disability and mental illness, in the past and present. It is part of a broader initiative to open out wider conversations about the history of psychiatric care in Epsom (Surrey, UK) and to explore ways in which medical histories, creative engagement strategies and oral history praxis can illuminate the instability of contemporary understandings of ‘healthy minds’ and ‘normative bodies’. This article charts our recent reuse of asylum photography and the restaging of wet-plate collodion portrait making, opening out key ethical questions about our complicity as consumers of historical sources, the role of re-enactment and empathy, and the place of the haptic and the ludic in exposing the porous and precarious boundaries between ableism and disability. Exploring our own vulnerabilities and solidarities in co-producing a public history project with our disabled artist collaborators, it offers insight into our evolving ‘micro ethics’, foregrounds lived experience perspectives, and offers some initial thoughts on ways to rethink critically some core tenets of oral history methodology.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
beapichel.bsky.social
I've written a short post www.beatrizpichel.com/news/why-med... to mark the official start of my @leverhulme.ac.uk Research Fellowship! Over the next year I'll be writing my second monograph, Medical Photography in Nineteenth-Century France. To say I'm excited is an understatement! #photohist
Why medical photography? — Dr Beatriz Pichel
Today I officially start my Leverhulme Research Fellowship, which will allow me to write my second monograph, Medical Photography in Nineteenth-Century France. From the Material to the Ethical over ...
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September 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
emilieklefebvre.bsky.social
Exciting news: My book Photography and Making Bedouin Histories is now available in paperback!
www.routledge.com/Photography-...

#anthropology #oxford_anthro #photohist #arthistory #history #visualculture #routledgebooks
Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013: An Anthropological Approach
Introducing a novel anthropological study of photography in the Middle East, Emilie Le Febvre takes us to the Naqab Desert where Bedouin use photographs to make, and respond to, their own histories. S...
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August 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
pccgb.bsky.social
Photographica World No.180 is out now - contents include a look at the Diana F+ and Dan 35 cameras, seaside animal photography, fingerprints, Chinese missionaries, manufacturer E.H. Farrow, Johan Steenbergen & the Photorex, the life and work of Ernest Marriage FRPS, and much more
#photohist
July 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
beapichel.bsky.social
This Friday! #ethics #photohist #histmed #medhums
June 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
anjalanggaat.bsky.social
Thank you @beapichel.bsky.social and the rest of the #PHRC team for two interesting days at the #PHRC25 conference "Photography, Value, History". Illustrated by @thalesorlie.bsky.social
excellent paper on how photography was valued by the Norwegian government after WW2. #photohist
June 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
beapichel.bsky.social
The fantastic Donna West Brett kicks off the #PHRC25 conference "Photography, Value, History" with a history of news, disaster and photographic value #photohist
A white woman with dark hair and dressed in black is giving a lecture. The projection behind her shows a photograph of a fire.
June 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Happy to share that my article on Metternich's early interest in Daguerre's invention is now available not only to Czech readers: doi.org/10.1080/1756.... If you are interested but don't have access, please don't hesitate to reach out. #daguerreotype #Metternich #photocollection #photohist
June 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
beapichel.bsky.social
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beapichel.bsky.social Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · May 2
Registration for our PHRC25 Conference Photography, Value, History is open! We have two amazing keynotes, Catherine Troiano (V&A) and Donna West Brett (University of Sydney) and a wonderful line up photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... It's hybrid so come to Leicester or attend online!
Annual Conference 2025
Photography, Value, History Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 16-17 June 2025 Where: Hybrid event, Online and at De Montfort University, Leicester. *…
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May 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
beapichel.bsky.social
The latest issue of History of Photography is out and it includes my article on the funding and institutionalisation of medical photography! I loved that they used the only photo in the article, a negative glass plate of the Salpêtrière photo studio, in the front cover ❤️ #photohist #histmed
Cover image for History of Photography volume 48 issue 1 (2025). The background is grey. At the top it says History of Photography in white. In the middle of the page there is a glass plate negative of a photo studio. You can see a camera on a tripod, several other devices on the sides, and the stage, with more devices.
April 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
pccgb.bsky.social
New research on autochrome pioneer and 'Photographic News' editor Percy Salmon FRPS
#photohist

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Autochrome Pioneer
This week (12th March) marks 153 years since the birth of photographer, author and journalist Percy R. Salmon FRPS (1872-1959). His life and career were celebrated in 2022 in a short film produced …
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March 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
curatorconnelly.bsky.social
Sharing to a few feeds. What have I missed?

#histsci #histstm #photohist #museumjobs #glamjobs 📜
curatorconnelly.bsky.social Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · Mar 6
📢 Recruiting now! Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology (maternity cover) 📸

Join my team at @mediamuseum.bsky.social and get stuck into caring for and sharing our brilliant collections. With @bradford2025.co.uk it's a wonderful time to be here

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Row upon row of cameras. Early 20th century types with black cases and shiny lenses looking at us.
March 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
pccgb.bsky.social
Ever fancied owning your own Victorian photographer's studio? Following the closure of Cornwall's Flambards theme park, the photographer's shop from the Victorian village is up for auction, with the shop front, mannequins, cameras & accessories #photohist
Photograph of a reconstructed Victorian photographic studio, inside a museum Interior of a museum reconstruction of a Victorian photographic studio with two mannequins and shelves of photos A large wooden studio camera on a tripod
March 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
pccgb.bsky.social
Interesting find inside a No1 Pocket Kodak - a reel of undeveloped film taken in Chipping Sodbury in the 1950s.

#photography #photohist #camera #collecting

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1920s black Kodak camera with folding bellows Black and white photograph of two young men in academic gowns standing on an old stone arch
February 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
beapichel.bsky.social
My latest article is out! It argues that the public subvention of photography in Parisian hospitals enabled the institutionalisation of photography and shaped the kind of photography that could be done #photohist #histmed 📷📸🗂️ It took me literal years to write!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Institutionalisation of Medical Photography, Public Funding and Medical Reform in Parisian Hospitals (1878–1913)*
While historians of photography and medicine have rarely engaged with the financial aspects of medical photography, funding strategies had a key role in the early development of this practice. The ...
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February 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM