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Blipfoto: a new return to the beginning of photography. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Forrest, E., & Hall, H. (2015, June). Blipfoto: a new return to the beginning of photography. Paper presented at International Visual Sociology Association Annual Conference 2015

‘What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end, is to make a beginning . The end is where we start from” TS Eliot, Little Gidding If, on TS Eliot’s suggestion in Little Gidding, you come any way into photography, it seems inevitable... Read More about Blipfoto: a new return to the beginning of photography..

Between exhibition and contemplation: exposing everyday entanglements within two online photography sites. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Forrest, E., & Hall, H. (2014, March). Between exhibition and contemplation: exposing everyday entanglements within two online photography sites. Paper presented at Helsinki Photomedia 2014

Why do we still have a powerful compulsion to show our pictures to each another? Ever since visiting guests popped their Cartes-de-Visites in the Victorian parlour tray, there has always been a need to share our own photographs with others. Whether d... Read More about Between exhibition and contemplation: exposing everyday entanglements within two online photography sites..

Scottish cinema – myth and reality from Hollywood to Holyrood. (2012)
Book Chapter
MacPherson, R. (2012). Scottish cinema – myth and reality from Hollywood to Holyrood. In E. Bell, & N. Mitchell (Eds.), Directory of World Cinema: Britain. Intellect ltd

Introductory essay on Scottish Cinema for Scotland section of Directory of World Cinema: Britain

Fragments of place : revealing sense of place through shared phone images. (2009)
Digital Artefact
Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2009). Fragments of place : revealing sense of place through shared phone images

Is an interactive new media art installation that explores how the sharing of images, normally hidden on mobile phones, can reveal more about people's sense of place and this ultimately shared experience. Traditional views on sense of place, as exemp... Read More about Fragments of place : revealing sense of place through shared phone images..

Bubble hunters 3D. (2008)
Digital Artefact
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2008). Bubble hunters 3D

Short video invited to be shown in the 3D theatre session of the 2009 Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference, California

Fragments of place. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M., Helgason, I., & Benyon, D. (2008, October). Fragments of place

Through the sharing and display of personal mobile phone images, the installation invites viewers to explore the connected nature of their sense of place.

History read backward: memory, migration and the archive. (2007)
Book Chapter
McGrath, R. (2007). History read backward: memory, migration and the archive. In A. Grossman, & A. O'Brien (Eds.), Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice (36-52). Wallflower Press

Drawing on recent cross-cultural debates in theories and practices of media representation and difference in the fields of cultural studies and visual anthropology, this work aims to think through, and alongside, images of migrancy. A section of the... Read More about History read backward: memory, migration and the archive..

Highland Journey 2006. (2007)
Exhibition / Performance
Gillanders, R. Highland Journey 2006. 30 September 2007 - 30 September 2007

The exhibition comprised photographs of the Scottish Highlands and Orkney Islands taken in 2006 on a journey inspired by and covering the same places as that made by the writer and poet Edwin Muir in 1934.

A digital photographic method for 3D reconstruction of standing tree shape. (2007)
Journal Article
Hapca, A. I., Mothe, F., & Leban, J.-M. (2007). A digital photographic method for 3D reconstruction of standing tree shape. Annals of Forest Science, 64(6), 631-637. https://doi.org/10.1051/forest%3A2007041

A digital photographic method is presented which is able to reconstruct the profile of the stem on standing trees up to a height of 12 m and to provide a fine level of detail. The method uses two digital photographs taken at 90° to each other and doe... Read More about A digital photographic method for 3D reconstruction of standing tree shape..

All for one. (2006)
Exhibition / Performance
Gray, P. All for one. Exhibited at Edinburgh. 18 June 2006 - 18 June 2006

No abstract available.

The Philosopher's Garden. (2004)
Book
Gillanders, R., France, P., & Lawson, J. (2004). The Philosopher's Garden. National Galleries of Scotland

Rebel frontier. (2004)
Digital Artefact
MacPherson, R., & Bell, D. (2004). Rebel frontier

Rebel Frontier (65/52 mins) is an anti-war film set in the US which sees America’s immigrant communities up against the national security state. The war in question is the First World War and the anti-war protesters the Irish and Finnish miners of Bu... Read More about Rebel frontier..

Re-reading Edward Weston. (2003)
Book Chapter
McGrath, R. (2003). Re-reading Edward Weston. In L. Wells (Ed.), The Photography Reader (327-337). Routledge