CCEL member Jamie Jelinski will be giving a talk, “The Bureaucracy of Mass Transit Graffiti: A View from Canada,” at the upcoming Unlock Book Fair Völkingen, Germany.

Issue 103 of Grey Room has just been released and features an article by Jamie Jelinski entitled “Face the Fax: Bureaucracy and the Unrealized Potential of Wirephoto at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.”

CCEL member Jamie Jelinski presenting his paper, “Bones Under Black Boxes: Quebec’s Suppression of Photographs of a Century-Old Skull”, at Darkness: A Photography Conference organized by the School of Digital Arts at @manmetuni.bsky.social

@michellehenning.bsky.social presenting her paper, “It was a Dark and Stormy Night: Photography and ‘Darkness’”, at Darkness: A Photography Conference organized the School of Digital Arts at @manmetuni.bsky.social

CCEL members @michellehenning.bsky.social and Jamie Jelinski will be in Manchester this week presenting at Darkness: A Photography Conference organized the School of Digital Arts at @manmetuni.bsky.social www.schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/events/darkn...

Talk: Michelle Henning on Photography's Dirty History Rethink photography as a ma

@michellehenning.bsky.social is giving a talk as part of her book launch at The Photographers Gallery on March 26 in London! More info at the link below. thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/tal...

Talk: Michelle Henning on Photography's Dirty History Rethink photography as a ma

I have a few book launches/ talks coming up:
26 March, London The Photographers'​ Gallery - talk, thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/tal...
28 April, Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery - in conversation with Prof. Sarah E. James. openeye.org.uk/whatson/book...
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Through the Aperture of the Parochial: Embodied Videography and Everyday (Circum)ambulation One of the legacies of the COVID-19 pandemic is a reorientation towards the parochial as an everyday space of intimacy and affective hyperlocality. Robert Macfarlane observes how the parochial, stripp...

Dr. Les Roberts has a new chapter, “Through the Aperture of the Parochial: Embodied Videography and Everyday (Circum)ambulation,” in the recent edited collection Geography’s Media Turn!

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Deadline is tomorrow!

The “Online Early” version of Jamie Jelinski’s article “Face the Fax: Bureaucracy and the Unrealized Potential of Wirephoto at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police” has just been published by Grey Room. It will be included in the journal’s Spring 2026 issue (no. 103)!

direct.mit.edu/grey/article...

@michellehenning.bsky.social was just interviewed by the New Books Network about her new book, A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, Empire

newbooksnetwork.com/a-dirty-hist...

The submission deadline for our conference is January 30! See post and website for further details!

If you’d like to know more about my new book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire, I am talking about it on the New Books Network @NewBooksNetwork podcast with Dr. Miranda Melcher here - newbooksnetwork.com/a-dirty-hist...

Dr. Jordana Blejmar is giving a virtual talk entitled “Cold War Toys in South America” for the Royal Anthropological Institute on February 10. Registration via the link below! therai.org.uk/events/anthr...

The submission deadline for our conference is January 30! See post and website for further details!

A picture of a pile of my books which have just arrived, complementary copies destined for copyright holders and kind friends.

They’ve arrived! It’s out!

Jamie Jelinski is giving an online talk on February 5 via the Photography Network entitled “Not So Fast Fax: Wirephoto at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.” Join the Photography Network and register to attend at the link below. www.photographynetwork.net/news/not-so-...

A Dirty History of Photography An environmental history of chemical photography through the lens of its deep connections to empire and industry.   Dependent on the extractive practices of fossil-fueled industrial capitalism, chemic...

Prof. Michelle Henning’s book, A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire, is now out! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Brand new issue of Journal of Anthropological Films co-edited by Dr. Alyssa Grossman!

boap.uib.no/index.php/ja...

A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.

Full CFP at www.ccel.uk