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...
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...
by Gabby | Sep 16, 2017 | Photography, Research
When Canada’s first citizenship laws came into effect in 1947, photography had already been representing this mode of belonging in the country for more than 50 years. Citizen Subjects: photography, race and belonging in Canada explores this unique context that allowed...
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,...
by Gabby | Aug 8, 2016 | Photography, Research
Throughout the month of June, I had the pleasure of working in the Black Star agency’s collection at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) through their Elaine Ling Fellowship. During that time, I looked through more than 3,300 photographs in the collection, as part of...
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