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Reparation and Visual Culture: Special issue of the Journal of Visual Culture

Reparation and Visual Culture: Special issue of the Journal of Visual Culture

by Gabby | Jan 5, 2022 | Research, Writing

  For the past several years, I have had the pleasure of thinking alongside Adrienne Huard about the possibilities and impossibilities of reparation in and through visual culture. We’ve been at work co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Visual Culture on this...
Finding Viola Desmond in the Canadian archives

Finding Viola Desmond in the Canadian archives

by Gabby | Jan 7, 2021 | Photography, Research, Writing

The tempo of academic publishing is sometimes maddeningly slow, but it also provides the opportunity to return to archival research with fresh eyes, and the perspectives of other scholars and researchers, and to think about what it means for the present. As part of my...
Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire

Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire

by Gabby | Dec 4, 2018 | Photography, Research, Writing

A colleague and mentor once told me that the average amount of time between an academic author completing the manuscript to their first book and its actual publication was 9 years. That number was a helpful mile marker over the last several years as I moved through...
“Developing Historical Negatives” out now in Photography and the Optical Unconscious

“Developing Historical Negatives” out now in Photography and the Optical Unconscious

by Gabby | Jun 8, 2017 | Photography, Research, Writing

Academic publishing sometimes feels painfully slow. I learned, towards the end of my PhD, that the average time between finishing a dissertation and getting it edited into and published as a book manuscript is 9 years. 9 years! That felt like an eternity at the time,...
Family photography in “The Clarion” newspaper (1946-56)

Family photography in “The Clarion” newspaper (1946-56)

by Gabby | Aug 3, 2016 | Photography, Research, Writing

I’ve been increasingly trying to find ways to share parts of my academic research in progress, in part to try to demystify work in photographic archives, in part to keep myself accountable to typing up and beginning to analyze the research I’m doing as I...
“No ‘expert’ intermediary can help you think for yourself”: rules for reading

“No ‘expert’ intermediary can help you think for yourself”: rules for reading

by Gabby | Dec 27, 2014 | Writing

My dear friend cheyanne turions, who has been thinking alongside me about the practices of looking and reading for quite some time, sent me photos of several pages of A Great Books Primer (1955) this holiday season, which offers 10 rules for running and participating...
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