WHAT WE DO

PHOTOGRAPHIC CULTURES SEEKS TO EXPAND THE PROFILE OF RESEARCH INTO PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH THAT INCLUDES THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL PRODUCTION, DISSEMINATION AND RECEPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC. THE GROUP BRINGS TOGETHER RESEARCHERS WHOSE EXPERTISE IN PHOTOGRAPHY BRIDGES SUBJECTS OF GENDER, MIGRATION, PLACE, VIOLENCE, AESTHETICS, AND QUESTIONS ABOUT MEDIUM SPECIFICITY AND TRANSCULTURAL EMANATIONS OF THE PHOTOGRAPH.

who we are

committee members

Professor Martine Antle (Professor Emerita, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Associate Professor Giorgia Alu (USyd), Associate Professor Donna West Brett ((USyd), Associate Professor John Di Stefano (Concordia University, Montreal), Janelle Evans (Sydney College of the Arts, USyd), Dr Stephen Gilchrist (USyd), Professor Natalya Lusty (University of Melbourne) and Dr Mimi Kelly (USyd).

AFFILIATE MEMBERS

Dr Toni Ross (UNSW A&D).

Professor Mary Roberts (USyd)

Professor Katherine Biber (UTS)

Dr Olivier Krischer

Nicholas Croggan (USyd)

bios

GIORGIA ALU's (University of Sydney) expertise in photographic representations in nineteenth-century Italy and her pioneering research on literature and photography brings an important research focus to the Group.

MARTINE ANTLE (Professor Emerita, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) is a specialist in twentieth-century French theatre, contemporary writing, photography and painting, and has published extensively on race and gender in twentieth and twenty-first-century French literature. Her scholarship spans the political, social, and cultural revolutions that shaped modernity from the turn of the twentieth century to the present.

DONNA WEST BRETT (University of Sydney) specialises in teaching and researching the photographic. Her research foci includes, German modernism, Cold War photography and issues of memory, violence and trauma. She is the instigator of the Photographic Cultures Research Group and an art historian in the Art History department.

JOHN DI STEFANO (Concordia University, Montreal) is a screen-based artist. His academic and creative practice-based research is situated at the intersection between the still and the moving image, focusing on the materialism of the photographic image, notions of temporality and disappearance in documentary practices, and on the evolving essayistic form in contemporary art.

JANELLE EVANS (Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney) is a descendant of the Dharug people of the Sydney Basin. Her research interests include representations of Aboriginal women depicted in eighteenth and nineteenth-century material texts that generated cultural stereotypes against which the Aboriginal ‘Other’ is pictured. Evans extends this enquiry to consider in what ways these tropes continue to resonate in contemporary society. Her artistic practice is in various media including photography, film and video, print media, and painting.

STEPHEN GILCHRIST (University of Sydney) is from the Yamatji people of the Inggarda language group of northwest Western Australia. His research includes Indigenous photography and contemporary art. His exhibition titled Everywhen was held at Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University in 2016.

NATALYA LUSTY (University of Melbourne) brings expertise in modernist studies and cultural studies to the Photographic Cultures research group. Her work in these fields is informed by the technological, experiential and representational nature of the photographic in relation to the politics and aesthetics of modernity

MIMI KELLY (University of Sydney). Mimi’s research focuses on the intersection of art, popular culture and feminism. She critiques gender representation in modern and contemporary performance art, photomedia, and global encounters via popular and social media, and the digital self. Her professional expertise bridges contemporary art praxis, scholarly research, university teaching and art programming.

FOUNDING committee members

Professor Martine Antle (Professor Emerita, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Dr Giorgia Alu (USyd), Associate Professor Donna West Brett ((USyd), Associate Professor John Di Stefano (Concordia University, Montreal), Mr Stephen Gilchrist (USyd), Professor Natalya Lusty (University of Melbourne) and Dr Catriona Moore (USyd).