Thanks to Charlotte Ribeyrol, Joshua Yumibe, Barabara Flueckiger, Dominic Williams& Mathilde Renauld for speaking at the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching & Curating Colour & discussing digital media, the conservation, analysis, restoration & exhibition of Autochromes, colour, film & more.

Thanks Lida. Hopefully we’ll see you again at the next event.

Join us tomorrow for the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Curating Colour Seminar (Zoom) 2-5pm April 1st 2026

How do we curate and teach the history of colour materials for which the first point of access is often a digital image?

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Professor Emeritus Barbara Flueckiger (University of Zurich / Scan2Screen) — Visual and Tactile Approaches to the Presentation and Teaching of Color Film's Materiality.

Event organised by Dr liz.watkins@gmail.com

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Dr Dominic Williams (Northumbria University) — Digital Colourisation as Public History: Reflections on Teaching

Mathilde Renauld (Victoria and Albert Museum) — The Autochrome Layer-by-Layer

Speakers include:

Professor Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne Université / Ashmolean Museum) — Chromotope: Unveiling the Stories of 19th-Century Colour

Professor Joshua Yumibe (Michigan State University) — Exhibiting the Chromatic Image

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Curating Colour.

Seminar (Zoom) 2-5pm April 1st 2026

How do we curate and teach the history of colour materials for which the first point of access is often a digital image?

Info & register www.colour.org.uk/interdiscipl...

All welcome!

Fantastic joining the Women of Photography 24 hour Conference-a-thon for International Women’s Day today ! I joined the amazing Anne Noble (Massey), Joyce Campbell (Auckland) & Geoff Batchen (Oxford) to talk about photography, women photographers and Antarctica. Kris Belden Adam’s& Rose Teanby host!

Cycling close to sunset yesterday

Seminar (online) Professor Hidenori Watanave (University of Tokyo) on “Rebooting Memories”: creating “flow” and inheriting memories from colorized photographs’

7-8pm (Japan) 10-11am(UK) Tues 10th March 2026.

Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

Info: colourandfilm.com/cfps/

Awakening in Blue – Nederlands Fotomuseum This exhibition is an ode to the cyanotype, an age-old technique that creates deep blue hues. At a time when AI images can be created in an instant, the cyanotype is making a comeback. Sunlight, water...

Cyanotypes exhibition, Fotomusuem, Rotterdam. 7 Feb-7June 2026 nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/en/nu-te-zie...

It’s been amazing to interview @flueko.bsky.social Flueckiger about her work and most recently with @scan2screen.bsky.social digitising, analysing and exhibiting colour, photography, film & their materials

Read the interview on the Baftss Colour & Film blog colourandfilm.com/2026/02/18/t...

Women of Photography Join us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography.

Registration open! Women of Photography 24 hour Conference-a-thon 2026. 8th March International Women’s Day. I’ll be joining the amazing Joyce Campbell, Anne Nobel & Geoff Batchen to discuss photography &Antarctica.

Convened by the brilliant Rose Teanby & Kris Belden Adams.

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Rainbows in Leeds today

#2 Sarah Street, Professor of Film and Foundation Chair of Drama, University of Bristol Five unforgettable uses of red on film, memories of interviewing former Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the hidden history of colour technologies in cinema.

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War Faces on Screen How have images of the face been used to document and distort the phenomenon of war? Such is the question that drives this book, with the face forming a recurri…

Published today: War Faces on Screen: Photography, Film and the Politics of Representation (Bloomsbury) edited by Katy Parry and Mani King Sharpe including essays on the close up, drone vision, and the colourisation of archival film footage

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/war-faces...

Image: The Destruction of Mount Pleasant Parcel Sorting Office, London, 18 June 1943: A censored wartime press print by an unknown Evening Standard photographer.

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Our next online talk ...

'Conflict Photography: A Manipulated Reality?' with Hilary Roberts on Tuesday 20th January 2026 (1900 GMT).

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Register via the link in our bio.

How to describe a work of art Alt text in museums doesn’t benefit only low-vision users – it helps all of us think more deeply about how to understand an artwork

‘Alt text is, by necessity, often cursory – an issue that is especially pronounced in museums and galleries. How to convey colour, texture and tone in 150 words or less?’ – Emma Cieslik on how the best descriptions can help everyone see art more clearly

Stop the Closure of Film Studies at Uni of Leicester Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG

Color Protocols Book Launch and Seminar HD 1080p YouTube video by Liz Watkins

Recording: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding (MIT 2025) book launch & seminar is online! Thanks to the amazing authors & presenters @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social @atambersweat.bsky.social Aileen Robinson & Carolyn L Kane! @mitpress.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social
youtu.be/ZmPnT676GMc

The seminar & book launch (online) for Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media (MIT, 2025) starts at 4pm – 5:30pm (UK), 12noon – 1:30pm (EST) Thursday 30th October 2025

Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/

Light night in Leeds 2025

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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Book Launch: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media. Thurs 30th Oct 2025. All Welcome!

Presenters: Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Notre Dame), Carolyn L. Kane (Toronto Met), Amber Sweat (Amherst) & Aileen Robinson (Stanford).

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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is.
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.

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The Film Atlas edited by James Layton and Crystal Kui is online. Amazing to have had the opportunity to contribute a piece on Tinting and Toning combinations used to colour black-and-white film stocks for this. www.filmatlas.com/entry/453

The Film Atlas was launched at the Nitrate Picture Show May 2025! An open access visual guide - with high res film fragments - from motion picture film formats, soundtracks & color processes. Edited by James Layton &Crystal Kui for FIAF & the George Eastman Museum. www.filmatlas.com/explore

Book Launch: Bregt Lameris, Feeling Colour, Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture 1950s-1960s YouTube video by Liz Watkins

A recording of the book launch for Feeling Colour is online m.youtube.com/watch?v=NsGh... Author Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit, Nl), was joined by Joshua Yumibe (MSU) & Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews). Thanks to the speakers and all who joined us @baftss.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social

Day 3: the Colour Fantastic Revisited conference. Film archives & approaches to restoration. From Cine Arte de San Marcos, to Adeline Law’s amazing work on Dufaycolour in the Netherlands, Bin Li on differences in the Desmet method & a collaborative project on managing analogue film fading digitally

Day2: The Colour Fantastic Revisited at the EYE Filmmuseum: Li-Chen Kuo’s amazing presentation about the silver retention process for colour film in Tokyo film labs, followed by hand painted experimental films, and Kirsten Moana Thompson on colour lighting in Disney’s nighttime entertainments.