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...

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:   📧 [email protected] 📞 +447902489831

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

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

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...

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 buff.ly/TmxT1uo

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: 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... .

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

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 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 egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphoto...

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...

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

#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! 🗃️📜📷📸

I have a new article now online- it’s a short piece for the relaunch of @vcib.bsky.social talking about my thoughts on what “visual culture in Britain“ might mean. There’s a little preview of themes and topics in my next book (A Dirty History of Photography) too- www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Any quantum physicists out there? @nantolini.bsky.social is looking for his community here on bluesky :)

I can now announce my book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire is going to be published by University of Chicago Press in Fall 2025.

My new book, David Brewster and the Culture of Science in Scotland, 1793-1843, comes out this month from Edinburgh University Press. Thanks to everyone at EUP and all my colleagues on the 'After the Enlightenment' project at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-david-b...

Paper now done (just in time!) for the conference Photography and the Museum, starting later today at the University of Sunderland. Runs until Sunday: free in person or online, programme in link below. 📜📷📸 Amazed by the energy and vision of organizers Alexandra Moschovi and Amanda Ritson.

If you are interested in the history of photography and do not know about Photographica, you should! Last issue on decentered histories of early photo with great authors (Olubukola Gbadegesin, Ece Zerman and many others). Free access here: journals.openedition.org/photographica/

Call for Papers The journal “photographies” is looking forward to receive proposals for a special issue on “Photography & Memory in the Age of AI” which will be co-edited by Sara Oscar and Cherine Fahd. Submissions are due on January 15, 2025.

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!

Tomorrow: conference "The Window as Protagonist in British Architecture and Visual Culture" at Paul Mellon Centre. I'm going to give a short talk about WHF Talbot's latticed window showing how he used it as a test object. Free tickets in the link (sold out in person, only zoom tickets available)

We spent last weekend building a camera obscura for my history of photography class. This week, we’ll start digging into the origins of photography—I can’t wait to show it to my students!

CfP for photo album fans 👇👇👇 www.pismowidok.org/en/cfp/41-fo...

CfP#2 for photo album fans 👇👇👇 journals.openedition.org/photographic...

We wanted to find the people writing about photography so we've made a starter pack. Let us know if there's anyone w should add.

Join me on May 21st at 5 pm (UK) and 12:00 pm (east cost USA) on The Revolving Century to talk about my new book! #hstm #histsci #bookhistory #sts #hps #manuscripts #notebooks forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Don't miss the series of talks on photography/photomechanical topics organized by the PhotoMatrix team in Prague | onsite + online | February-May 2024 photomatrix.cz/outputs

Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize, awarded every 2 years for best scholarly book in the history of science. The deadline for nominations is 19 February 2024 at 5pm. Nominations should be submitted via the following online form: britsochistsci.wufoo.com/forms/q1j0xf... #histsci #hps

The AHR seeks proposals for a special, digital-only issue of the journal on “The Mistakes I Have Made.” We invite historians to reflect on their missteps and how those missteps reveal insights into historical practice. The deadline for proposals is Dec. 15. 🗃️

PhD opportunity for #BookHistory & #histsci. Economies of Natural History: Publishing Science in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. More details: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

First post on Blusesky! Here's my recent article 'Early Photographic Accounts at the Prima Riunione degli Scienziati Italiani (Pisa, 1839)' on the materiality of early photographic experiments and the material culture of Italian nineteenth-century natural philosophers.