Dr Francesca Strobino

Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

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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Image: On a dark blue background are white and light blue impressions of two pansies. At the bottom are the logos for the Arts and Humanities Research council, the Museum of the Home and the University of Westminster. Text at top left reads - Are you LGBTQIA+ or non-heterosexual? Do you have experience of darkrooms in the home or spaces that feel like home to you? If so, then this project is for you!

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

Thank you Rebekah! ☺️

I heard @francescastrobino.bsky.social on this at #BSHS2025 - an amazing archive and fascinating story of 'scientific' crafting and manipulation #histSTM

Thank you, Rose!

Thank you very much! And huge congratulations to the honourable mentions 👏🏼

Very grateful for the prize and excited to share this article!

His work opens up broader questions about the idea of “mechanical objectivity” in photography and the use of epistemic colour applied by hand.

The article examines Giorgio Roster’s hand-coloured lantern slides as a key case study to reassess the role of crafted photographic records in scientific contexts. I suggest that his scientific training influenced how he used colour to represent subjects with monochromatic photography.

I'm really excited to finally share my article "Colouring and Crafting 19th-Century Science," awarded the 2024 Nuncius Prize.

It's available in open access: brill.com/view/journal...

Cover of Negative Originals: Race & Early Photography in Colombia by Juanita Solano Roa. The cover features a photographic negative of three individuals. Two people, who appear to be women, are seated in the foreground. A man in a wide-brimmed hat stands behind them. The inverted image has a ghostly appearance. The white and gray title is prominently displayed in large, sans serif text.

In "Negative Originals," Juanita Solano Roa explores race and identity through photographic practices in late nineteenth-century Medellín, Colombia. Read the introduction for free on our website now! #VisualCulture #Photography
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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.

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

Symposium Future Memories - Rijksmuseum

Symposium Future Memories: How Photography Shapes Our Understanding of the World | 14 May 2025 at The Rijksmuseum | A one-day international symposium exploring the impact of photojournalism and documentary photography on our perceptions of the world | Live & online
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...

Two upcoming events being disorganised by me:
1/Weds 30 April – writer Melissa McCarthy – “Absolutely Nebulous: Fog, Fuzzy Edges and Vagueness in Photographic Fields” University of Liverpool /online – full details and book here - www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

The National Science and Media Museum are looking for a fixed term Curator of Photography & Photographic Technology (I'm off to grow a small human). It's a great job, wonderful collections, best colleagues and an exciting time to be in Bradford. Please share. ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

What a fascinating talk by @michellehenning.bsky.social, linking photography to chemical warfare via Benjamin's aura & Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia. Really looking forward to Henning's forthcoming book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Yesterday @francescastrobino.bsky.social officially received her PhD 🎉🎉
I'm super proud of you and so glad we had this journey together ❤️

William Henry Fox Talbot, British polymath and eminent pioneer of photography, was born today, on the day, 225 years ago.

In the mid-1830s, he embarked on an endeavor that eventually led to pictures he called “photogenic drawings”—photographic representations made with and without a camera. /1

#InternationalWomensDay is 8th March. Please join me & Kris Belden-Adams in a unique 24hour online conference celebrating women of #photography.
60 speakers from 17 countries across multiple time zones from New Zealand to West coast USA. Registration here: egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphotogr…

The first speaker in the Photoecologies Study Group online seminar series is Michelle Henning, 25 February 2025, 5-6.30pm GMT. Please register to attend this talk here: www.eventbrite.com/e/michelle-h... .

You are invited to the Photoecologies Study Group, a new space for exploring photography as an environmental, elemental and energetic assemblage. To find out more about and register to attend our upcoming events, see our eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/o/photoecolo... .

Thank you!

William Henry Fox Talbot's photographs at the Kórnik Library. Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej. Z.41 - Wielkopolska Digital Library Wielkopolska Digital Library is... Here put the description for the main page matadata, visible e.g. when sharing on Facebook.

New article out! I wrote about a small collection of eight salted paper prints by W. H. F. Talbot, housed in the Polish Academy of Sciences Kórnik Library. In addition to discussing these photographs, it explores the role of diplomats in the diffusion of paper photography across Central Europe

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 ...

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....

THREE AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards on the project “Visual Cultures of Fascism” Applications are invited for three fully-funded AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Award (+3) beginning in September 2025.   The rising popularity of the 35mm Leica camera and the Parvo video camera i...

THREE AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards on the fascinating project “Visual Cultures of Fascism” - deadline for applications 5pm, Friday, 28 Feb. 2025. Please send applications to my colleague, Roland Clark (clarkr@liverpool.ac.uk)
#skystorians 🗃️www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...

This look amazing! A 24-hour “conference-a-thon” all about women of photography. Coming in early March.

#photography
#womenphotographers
#photohistory
#arthistory

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I'm happy to announce that my book on early paper photography in central Europe "Inventors, Pirates, Epigones" is now available as an e-book at a.co/d/cl5PYJX; a sample can be viewed at www.academia.edu/126980382/In...

Image of First page of article called Keeping out the Fog: Atmospheric Contamination and Control in the Industrial Darkroom

I wrote an article for this special issue on Darkrooms last year and it’s available open access www.eshph.org/journal/phot...

CfP - Mechanical Reproduction of Artefacts / 19thCentury - Umění/Art journal The peer-reviewed academic journal Umění/Art invites authors to submit article proposals for a special issue entitled Mechanical reproduction of art works and artefacts in the 19th century. - Abstract...

#CfP The peer-reviewed journal Umění/Art invites authors to submit article proposals for a special issue entitled Mechanical reproduction of art works and artefacts in the 19thC | Abstract submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Article submission deadline 30 Oct 2025
www.academia.edu/126618718/Cf...

Funded PhD in photographic history: please share widely! With The Story, Durham and @durhamhistory.bsky.social, 'Images and Empire in British Military Collections' will examine the photo archive of the Durham Light Infantry regiment over its 90-year history. Apply by January 31st! 🗃️📜📷📸