Projects
Qualitative digitisation and research into the first Belgian photographic magazines 'Bulletin belge de Photographie' and 'Bulletin de l'Association Belge de Photographie'. University of Antwerp
Unweaving the rainbow: A multi-method approach to the empirical aesthetics of photography KU Leuven
Photography is a child of our time and place, and has reached an omnipresence in our current society. By combining visual elements in a certain way, careful framing, waiting for the right moment and editing, photographers hold in their hands a very powerful system to convey meaning, stir feelings, tell stories and inspire reactions in others. Yet, despite the omnipresence of our interactions with photography, our scientific understanding of ...
Flat photography and two-dimensional pictorial organization. University of Antwerp
In/visible constellations. Photography and spaces of imaginations in the Swiss Italian borderscape KU Leuven
National borders in the contemporary world are subject to contradictory visibility. While they are hyper-visible in the debate within politics, the media, and academic research, the mechanisms through which they are enforced and come to ‘act’ are often invisible. Specifically, internal European borders have been highly dematerialized and are often invisible on the ground. Yet, these borders are not disappearing, nor becoming irrelevant. At ...
A critical analysis of the work of female photographers at Bauhaus and the relationship between gender, aesthetics and photography KU Leuven
The goal of this project is to analyze the transition from artistic-experimental photography to documentary-journalistic photography in a group of women artists who studied or practiced photography within the Bauhaus between 1919 and 1933. We will investigate the cases of Lucia Moholy, Grete Stern, Hilde Hubbuch, Irena Blühova, Ré Soupault, Irene Bayer Hecht, Ricarda Schwerin and Edith Tudor Hart, with a focus on the relationship between ...
Photography in contempory art. Theories in historical perspective. KU Leuven
Photography and the public domain: managing knowledge and intellectual property, 1871-2003 Ghent University
This project provides a long-term perspective on the sharing and public disclosure of innovative technological knowledge. It focuses on the development of photographic emulsion technology in the United States and Europe.
CIRCULATIONS AND IMAGINARIES: PHOTOGRAPHY AND MULTILITERACY IN THE POST-MODERN ERA KU Leuven
This interdisciplinary research at the crossroads of language sciences, art and history of photography, conducted in parallel at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle and the KU Leuven, will aim at showing how photography and language didactics, which emerged throughout the nineteenth century and share common political and economic stakes, have participated in the construction of representations of otherness. It will examine the role of images in ...