Many scholars have studied French Interwar photographer Claude Cahun’s use of mirrors in their self-portraits. However, scholarship of these photographs remains largely in discursive isolation. Indeed, scholars have yet to connect these artworks to the rest of Cahun’s oeuvre, as…
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Understanding of extensional flow mechanism is utmost important for the efficient operation of many industrial processing such as fiber spinning, extrusion, injection molding, and electrospinning, particularly if these involve non-Newtonian fluids such as polymer fluids, gels, f…
Some artists achieve substantial fame only after their death. Such fame is brought about through the efforts of a network of curators, critics, and estate managers who collectively shape a story from the life and work of the artist into a cohesive mythology and, in so doing, cre…
I have been meditating on an approach to making, one that is entangled and difficult to nail down or say exactly what it is—one which I believe has significant relevance in all fields of artistic production but has generally been neglected outside of socially engaged work and so…
As archaeologists integrate digital media into all stages of archaeological methodology it is necessary to understand the implications of using this media to interpret the past. Using digital media is not a neutral or transparent act; to critically engage with digital media it i…
Northern Ireland's contemporary visual culture reflects the ethno-political conflict, known as the Troubles, that spanned four decades from the late 1960s to the Belfast Peace Agreement in 1998. Since the mid 1980s, the Northern Irish artist Willie Doherty has reacted to this pr…
Marie al-Khazen was a Lebanese photographer who lived between 1899 and 1983. Her photographs were mostly taken between the 1920s and 1930s in the North of Lebanon. They were compiled by Mohsen Yammine, a Lebanese collector who later donated the photographs to the Arab Image Foun…
The Arab Spring marked a new age of international political participation and support, facilitated by the wide circulation of imagery via social and mass media. Many in the West found themselves in ideological agreement with the political efforts of the protests, upholding the U…
This thesis is an investigation into the lives of women living in Iran. I develop a critical framework for understanding it. It is now my understanding that women suffer greatly from the restrictions they are subjected to. I discuss what some of these restrictions are, and how t…
The study of African photography has emerged as a dynamic and widely appreciated field over the last decade. However, much of the literature is related to the presentation of photography by Africans within museum and gallery contexts, with only a handful of scholars providing di…
Belly Dance: Dancing the Veils Away is a collection of photographs that celebrate the freedom, sensuality, and grace of belly dancing. These photographs highlight the fact that belly dance is not—as it is often depicted in the West—a dance of submission. Rather, it is a deeply i…
The thesis project Remnants of a Dream originated within a childhood memory of my father's voice, “Perhaps we should go to Israel to live on a kibbutz.” The resulting portfolio of photographs was inspired by both a longing to experience an important part of modern Jewish history…
Urban exploration is a practice of researching, discovering and physically exploring temporary, obsolete, abandoned, derelict and infrastructural areas within built environments. Through charting the rise to prominence of a London urban exploration crew between 2008 and 2011, of…
Participatory photography initiatives promise to 'empower', 'give voice' and 'enable social change' for marginalised communities through photography. This thesis questions this promise, demonstrating participatory photography to be a contested practice defined as much by inheren…
My research seeks to understand the complexity of East Greenwich residents' affective reactions at the moment when this landscape was undergoing a dramatic and rapid change. I walked its riverside to the Dome while this was turned from a mostly dismissed and derelict industrial …
This practice-based research study examines two questions in an effort to determine how the photographer can play a role in the promulgation of environmental activism. Firstly, I ask if certain aesthetic approaches to the documentation of industrial pollution can be regarded as …
The transitions of young people to adulthood in the UK are a political threshold that has received much public attention. The trend for young people to abstain from elections relative to older generations is one example of the many reasons young people’s politics have come under…
Under Colonial Copyright Law, the British Museum Library acquired a substantial collection of Canadian photographs between 1895 and 1924, taken by a variety ofamateurs and professionals across Canada. Due to the agency of individual photographers, the requirements of copyright l…