Dr Sara Dominici

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:

photooxford.org/events/const...

What a great project 🤩

Resharing as many people thought was about a different kind of darkroom 😂
📸🏠🏳️‍🌈I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom/using a darkroom (in Britain) that felt like home.

If you are interested please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831

Shifting the Frame – Women’s Photographic Practices (1840–1960)

Call for papers (in English) for international conference at Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal, 5–7 March 2026. No registration fee. Deadline for abstracts 4 Oct 2025.

More info: womenphot.fba.up.pt/call-for-pap...

A poster with a read background and a photograph of a woman lying on a white sheet, with her top just under her chest. There are marks on her bade belly, her hands lying on the sides of her hips. On the right top corner it says Picturing Health: Ethics, Experience and the Evolution of Medical Photography. On the left bottom corner it says Free Talk and Discussion Wednesday 1 October. The Wellcome Trust logo is on the left top corner.

What does the future of medical and scientific imaging look like?
Join Dr Savannah Dodd, Susan Kett-Smart, Prof Mark Lythgoe, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Georgie Wileman & me as we explore ethics, innovation, and inclusion in image-making bit.ly/WPPPanelTalk
📷 Image credit: @georgiewileman.bsky.social

Imperial Heritage on Trial: Keith Piper’s Viva Voce at Tate Britain Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Elisabetta Garletti examines "the power imbalance that endures in curatorial reframings where the hosting museum retains the authority over alleged decolonizing narratives, which ultimately reveal themselves to be mere attempts to safeguard institutional survival" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Image of Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company workshops with smoke escaping from tower. Reference: CO 1069/280 from The National Archives, UK.

The Call for Papers for 'Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive', a symposium at The National Archives in London, 4 December 2025, is now open!

Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept

See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS

#envhum #envhist

Please share!

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

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

@mollycaenwyn.bsky.social 👆🏼

Another online talk has been added to our 2025 Programme.

'The Roaming Studio: The Itinerant Photographer in Berwick-upon-Tweed' on Tuesday 11th November (1900 GMT).

Register and full details via link.

events.rps.org/en/historica...

‘Rethinking Histories of Military Atrocity, Ethnic Violence and Photography, from the Aceh War to the Indonesian National Revolution’ - ✍️📷 New research of mine, open access with @anupress.bsky.social 👇

press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...

#indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography

😢😢 I am speechless. Much love xx

Do take a look at the call for papers for our conference on The Hand 8-9 Jan 2026, @lcflondon.bsky.social. We're seeking contributions from a range of disciplines! Please check it out and get involved!

Great! This will be really useful to my students, I'll order a copy for our library.

A picture of the front cover of the book Do Less Harm. Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney E Thompson and Kylie M Smith

A picture of a chapter titled Images and Primary Sources,by me, Beatriz Pichel

Very excited I finally got my copy of Do Less Harm, brilliantly edited by the incredible @cethompson.bsky.social and @drkyliesmith.bsky.social! In my chapter I reflect on the strategies I follow to teach with images ethically. I LOVED LOVED LOVED writing this piece! #histmed #ethics

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...

Women of Photography Join us at Women of Photography to celebrate the contributions of women-identifying practitioners to the history and living present of photography women photo female photographers

Two weeks to go before the deadline for papers celebrating women photographers. Building on our March 24 hour conference-athon, a FREE online conference will be held on International Women’s Day 2026. We invite proposals for talks or panel discussions - details at: womenofphoto.com

Women’s Work? Women Artists at the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibition In 1897, as part of a wide-ranging exhibition to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, Henrietta Rae curated a display of artworks by over 180 women. Analysing architectural plans, press revi...

Just published: Victoria Munn's article argues that "the Woman’s Work section at the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibition proclaimed women’s collective progress in, and contribution to, art in the Victorian era" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For its 11th issue, the journal “Transbordeur. Photographie histoire société” is looking for contributions dealing with “Live and Direct. Infrastructures and Imaginaries of Simultaneity.” Guest editors are Jonathan Dentler, Olivier Lugon, and Marie Sandoz. Here is the call for papers:

I've been a bit quiet recently due to being busy getting our new Sound and Vision galleries ready @mediamuseum.bsky.social

They opened today! There was a gaggle of kids having a brilliant time in there when I wandered through this morning 😍

Lovely overview here from @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

A family looking at a display about the Cottingley fairies. There's one of the cameras they used and you can pose with the fairies yourself

A family exploring a display about horror movies. There's a big pool of fake blood on the floor and a xenomorph from Alien in the background

Two people stand inside a huge digital artwork, looking at giant screens

Fairies and vampires and aliens, oh my!

Great photos from the new Sound and Vision galleries at @mediamuseum.bsky.social. We've got a brilliant family day lined up for tomorrow *and* temperature controlled galleries 😎

www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/sou...

Sounds great but I can't open the link, could you reshare it? (hope you're well)

Now accepting submissions for my session, "Photography's Other Workers," at the upcoming CAA (Chicago, Feb. 18-21, 2026). Proposals can be submitted via the CAA platform until August 29th

More info here: caa.confex.com/.../webprogr...

Please share widely!

#photosky #filmsky #caa2026

I'm delighted to announce that my 1st academic article has been published. Before I left the National Collection of Aerial Photography, I was invited by Kronos journal to submit an article on the Directorate of Overseas Surveys project: www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?s... #academia #aerialphotography

Women of Photography Join us at Women of Photography to celebrate the contributions of women-identifying practitioners to the history and living present of photography women photo female photographers

One month to go - call for papers celebrating women photographers. Building on our March 24 hour conference-athon, a FREE online conference will be held on International Women’s Day 2026. We invite proposals for talks or panel discussions - details at
womenofphoto.com

Topic Collection: Visual Medical Humanities | Medical Humanities

Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward!

mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

Thank you to all who attended our protest against DMU cuts held at Trinity House this afternoon, students, staff, members of the public. The message was clear: #DefendDMU