FORTHCOMING BOOK: A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire (University of Chicago Press, Fall 2025)

Writing/talks freely available online:

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2024. “Take Me to the River: Place and Material in Visual Culture” in Visual Culture in Britain, 1–6.

2024 “Photography's Other Sensitivities”, Media Theory 8, no 1 (special issue Seeing Photographically), 2024.

2024 “Keeping out the Fog: Atmospheric Contamination and Control in the Industrial Darkroom” in Photoresearcher 41, (special issue The Darkroom, ed. Sara Dominici)

2022 “‘Some Slight Eruptive Disease’: Victorian Verisimilitude in Photography and Plastercasting” in The Matter of Mimesis, edited by Marjolijn Bol and E.C. Spary , Leiden: Brill.

2022 Public Talk with Professor Georgina Endfield, “A Lens on the Weather: Historical Perspectives on Photography and Climate” 25 May 2022, as part of the University of Liverpool's Public Lecture Series 2022 on Arts, Sustainability and the Climate Crisis (video)

2022 “ Unseen and Unheard: Photography in the Atmosphere”, keynote at Photo Archives VIII, Basel, Switzerland, 5 May 2022.(video)

2019 “Microfilm and Memex: Lucia Moholy, Photography and the Information Revolution” in Bauhaus Imaginista, edition 4: Still Undead.

2019 “A Hundred Years: Lucia Moholy and German Photography History in Britain”, 20 minute paper given at Sites of Interchangeat the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (video).

2018 “Holes: Colonialism and Negative Space in Modernist Photography” in WrongWrong Magazine, 12 “Left”.