Photography writers and academics
Curators, writers, lecturers of photography. Some of whom have contributed to Source. Anyone we should add, tell us.
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@sourcephoto.bsky.social
@jacobisaac.bsky.social
PhD @ University College London working on things like: documentary photography, waste, resource extraction, and environmental justice with a focus on West Africa Occasional academic musings, mostly football ramblings (Swindon Town FC)
@unofphoto.bsky.social
Photographic conversation and debate curated by Dr Grant Scott Subject Coordinator Photography UG and PG at Oxford Brookes University. The weekly A Photographic Life podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts... www.unitednationsofphotography.com
@katerinakorola.bsky.social
Art historian and media scholar. Assistant Professor @UMN, PhD'21 @UChicago. Plant amateur, postcard collector, cat person.
@emma1616.bsky.social
Audiovisual Archivist, PhD Candidate in Photographic Heritage @Photographic History Research Centre (PHRC) DMU. Funded by Midlands4Cities (M4C).
@olgaasmith.bsky.social
Art historian (Newcastle University), unintentional nomad & twin mama #envhum, ecocriticism & art
@carolinedouglas.bsky.social
Artist / Researcher Gender and Class in Early Photography in Scotland 2024/25 Fedwa Malti-Douglas Fellow, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. PhD Graduate, Royal College of Art, London www.carolinedouglasphotography.co.uk
@michellehenning.bsky.social
Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
@nathanjurgenson.com
author, The Social Photo (Verso) former Snap; former Real Life magazine; former/future Theorizing the Web conference los angeles
@kathrinyacavone.bsky.social
Photography history and theory • Visual culture and cultural studies • Francophone literary culture and theory • Media studies @unimarburg.bsky.social
@mrautzenberg.bsky.social
Professor für Philosophie an der Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen
@klloyd.bsky.social
Writer, curator, Senior Lecturer History of Art (The University of Edinburgh) and organiser with Living Rent (Leith Branch). Wants rent controls now. https://kirstenlloyd.co.uk/
@justinmcarville.bsky.social
Photography Historian | Researcher | Writer | Academic | Public Sector Worker | The Ungovernable Eye | Currently writing on photography, racialization and Ireland | Values and Opinions my own
@jayneknight29.bsky.social
Photographic historian and Kodak Museum Collection researcher 📸
@kericronin.bsky.social
Historian of Visual Culture. Human-Animal History. Writer. Pteridomaniac. Kayaker. Has a chronic illness you probably haven’t heard of. 😷 🍁 🏳️🌈 🌱 she/her https://kericronin.com/ https://instagram.com/kericronin/
@profdanhicks.bsky.social
Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
@pilarm.bsky.social
Photographer, writer Korean Studies / Photography Studies Madrid SP/EN/한 MiCorea @micorea.bsky.social & VesAsia @vesasia.bsky.social
@danielfoliard.bsky.social
Historian. Photography and empires. Author of the Violence of Colonial Photograpy (Manchester UP, 2023). Université Paris Cité/LARCA
@siobhanangus.bsky.social
Art historian. Writing about photography, resource extraction, & environmental justice. Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography (Duke UP 2024) https://www.dukeupress.edu/camera-geologica
@janesimon.bsky.social
Researcher/writer/maker Photography, film, photobooks, domestic, home, photographic theory and history, visual studies. https://www.routledge.com/The-Domestic-Interior-and-the-Self-in-Contemporary-Photography/Simon/p/book/9780367543402
@neusachlich.bsky.social
Art history / Visual studies • Photography • Weimar Republic Illustrated Press • 1920/30/40ies • Dr. phil.
@lixmount.bsky.social
Photography and Photographic History. Now Page: http://jameshamilton.co.uk Photographs: http://www.lixmount.com
@ecoomasaru.bsky.social
Historian of modern and contemporary British, Irish, and Sri Lankan art. Research on gender, sexuality, and race.
@brightonphotobooth.bsky.social
Photobooth technician turned archivist | Digital Content & Systems Coordinator @DesignArchives.bsky.social | 1/2 of the Photobooth Technicians Project https://tinyurl.com/ymd7kcax | A3 Prints here: https://tinyurl.com/ycx5dw74 | She/her
@drhanin.bsky.social
Curator of analog & digital media (photography, film, and sound) at Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna.
@ptrnkova.bsky.social
Photo historian | all about 19thC photography | now esp. photo/mechanical reproduction | duplicates | counterfeits
@megdolan.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in History of Photography @ St Andrews + Collections Development Manager @ Edinburgh Printmakers
@rich-king.bsky.social
Art Photography | Documentary Photography | Transcontinental Railroad History | Professor Kalamazoo College | Opinions expressed here his own | Bluesky number 671,629 (joined August 22nd 2023)
@miraanneli.bsky.social
art historian | photography theorist | art critic Research on Images of Surveillance in Contemporary Art (PhD); Culture of Remembrence; Antisemitism in Art @frankfurtuas & @fotofolkwang.bsky.social
@fabianroe.bsky.social
Historian of #Art, #Photography and #Exhibitions 🧑🏻🎨 📸 🖼️ lecturer at the History of Art Department at Universität Hamburg linktr.ee/FabianR_derer he/him
@budinddharmawan.bsky.social
There is no money in writing photography Awkward outcast in Yogyakarta, Indonesia instagram.com/budinddharmawan
@janeabirkin.bsky.social
Artist, designer, writer. Research Fellow, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
@lindasteer.bsky.social
Art historian researching photography & drug use. Author of Appropriated Photographs in French Surrealist Periodicals, 1924-1939 (Routledge, 2017). Art history teaching podcast https://unboxingthecanon.podbean.com Partner, stepmom, and cat mom. 🐈⬛🐈⬛
@richove.bsky.social
Bodley's Librarian, @bodleianlibraries.Bsky.social & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social
@susieprotschky.bsky.social
Professor of Global Political History Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Colonialism | Southeast Asia 🌏 Photography | Visual Culture War | Gender | Environment www.susieprotschky.com https://vu.nl/en/research/scientists/susie-protschky
@jennifervevans.bsky.social
historian | digital curator | Humboldtian | professor | currently writing Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution for Stanford Univ Press/Redwood Press latest book: Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (Duke UP, 2023)
@sparsons.bsky.social
Professor, Art History and Visual Culture, York University, Lead editor, Photography and Culture. Thinking about privacy and photography
@ruthquinn.bsky.social
Curator of image making and taking, brittle plates and papery memories, pixels, brass lenses, plastic boxes all the miscellaneous things that make up a photographic collection. Bradford, West Yorks.
@steffensiegel.bsky.social
Optimistic Berliner • Professor for the Theory and History of Photography at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen • Chairman of the Essen Center for Photography
@judithriemer.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in History and Theory of Photography @Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen | Research Fellow @Deutsche Fotothek Dresden | Co-Founder forum foto+album https://fotoalbum.hypotheses.org | https://judith-riemer.com | Views my own
@schalkewins.bsky.social
researching the photobook & history/theory of photography as an art historian & permanent research fellow at @kwi-essen.bsky.social. whistling at the gap between reading & writing. https://linktr.ee/schalkewins
@mideastineurope.bsky.social
Global+Colonial Historian btw London/Paris/Berlin & the Mid East. Writes on Photography, Memory, Heritage, Museums of 'Lost Objects' & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social https://100histories100worlds.org/mirjam-brusius
@anjalanggaat.bsky.social
Historian, Norsk Folkemuseum. Currently researching the Norwegian photographic industry 1940-2010. Photo history, business history, marketing, Kodak.
@femvertiser.bsky.social
researcher: art history, history/theory of photography, gender studies, history of science, information design, @akbild @oeaw #apartgsk
@arnet.bsky.social
Photo-historian, curator and archivist, occasionaly even photographer. Keen on early northern light photography, mid 20th century picture agencies and architectural photography.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
@curatorgeoff.bsky.social
Keeper of Science and Technology at National Museums Scotland. Historian of photography, science, museums and visual culture. He/him. Views my own.
@beapichel.bsky.social
Historian of photography, medicine and emotions and PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5. She/her
@jamesopp.bsky.social
History, photographic studies, 80s pop culture, and slurpees. Carleton University jamesopp.com
@saradominici.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at the University Westminster, UK | Historian of photography & visual culture | Writing a book on the photographic darkroom 1850s-1910s I Editor at Visual Culture in Britain https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/researcher/886x9?sec
@francescastrobino.bsky.social
Photographic Historian, Lecturer at LABA, Florence (she/her)
@emilieklefebvre.bsky.social
Anthropologist | Associate Researcher @McGill | DPhil @ Oxford | history, visual culture, digital practices, conflict | Photography and Making Bedouin Histories https://bit.ly/EKLeFebvre | http://www.emilieklefebvre.com
@magiclantern.bsky.social
Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
@lagernina.bsky.social
Professor of visual culture @ NTNU Trondheim | Media, Data, Museums | Author of Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization @ MIT Press 2023 | Campuslivet (akademisk nyhetsbrev på norsk): campuslivet.substack.com
@dianakamin.bsky.social
History of photography, archives, museums. Book: Picture-Work, how Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy
@carlajeanstokes.bsky.social
MAs in history and photographic preservation + collections management | Historian of First World War photography 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 | Museum Jill of all trades
@anaschveitzer.bsky.social
PhD Student | African History | Humboldt University My research focuses on the connections between photography, labour, and German colonialism in Africa.
@markriceny.bsky.social
American Studies professor interested in photography, mapping, and archives. Author of THROUGH THE LENS OF THE CITY: NEA PHOTOGRAPHY SURVEYS OF THE 1970s, and DEAN WORCESTER'S FANTASY ISLANDS: PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM, AND THE COLONIAL PHILIPPINES
@johnedwinmason.bsky.social
Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa, UVA. Usually found in Virginia, longing for Cape Town.
@jenniferwellington.bsky.social
Modern History, University College Dublin. My book: Exhibiting War. Researching war trophies and trophy-taking.
@erikahanna.bsky.social
Historian of Ireland, cities, folklore, photographs, bicycles, raindrops and other ephemera. Associate Prof Modern History at University of Bristol. I blog about weather and urbanization here: https://rainandtheirishcity.com/
@emilymfg.bsky.social
Professor of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin (UCD). Irish studies; art history; museums; photography; cultural omnivore. Angeleno by birth, Dubliner by choice. Mildly interesting at times. https://people.ucd.ie/emily.mark
@christinajriggs.bsky.social
Writer and historian: photograpy, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Tango dancer, Italophile, Chair in History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
@sourcephoto.bsky.social
A quarterly magazine 'thinking through photography' https://linktr.ee/sourcephotographicreview www.source.ie