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Franki Raffles at the 1st St Andrews Photography Festival (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Scott, A. Franki Raffles at the 1st St Andrews Photography Festival. 1 August 2016 - 11 September 2016. (Unpublished)

An exhibition of selected images from the Franki Raffles Archive Research project curated by Alistair Scott.

Franki Raffles Archive (2016)
Digital Artefact
Scott, A. J. (2016). Franki Raffles Archive

Franki Raffles (1955-94) was a feminist social documentary photographer. She was based in Edinburgh but travelled widely, photographing women at work and in their everyday lives, in Scotland, and across the world. Her tragic early death, at the... Read More about Franki Raffles Archive.

Lost in Translation (2015)
Journal Article
Cavers, C., & Supartono, A. (2015). Lost in Translation. Ojodepez, 43, 52-57

You Play Your Part – Older Women on Screen and in Production (2015)
Book Chapter
Macleod, K. (2015). You Play Your Part – Older Women on Screen and in Production. In H. Savigny, E. Thorsen, D. Jackson, & J. Alexander (Eds.), Media, Margins And Popular Culture (28-40). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137512819_3

This chapter draws on the author’s practice-led research in community-based media to explore how participatory production techniques and strategies create opportunities to increase older women’s visibility on screen and in production. Through examini... Read More about You Play Your Part – Older Women on Screen and in Production.

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery Document Scotland The Ties That Bind (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Gerrard, S. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery Document Scotland The Ties That Bind. Exhibited at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. 25 September 2015 - 25 April 2016. (Unpublished)

Document Scotland is a photographic collective comprising of Colin McPherson, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Sophie Gerrard and Stephen McLaren — four Scots-born photographers, each exponents of documentary photography. This exhibition takes place one year a... Read More about The Scottish National Portrait Gallery Document Scotland The Ties That Bind.

Blipfoto: a new return to the beginning of photography. (2015)
Presentation / Conference
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..

Outside the Box (2015)
Book
Holmes, P. (Ed.). (2015). Outside the Box. Edinburgh: Mutus Liber

A monograph devoted to Paul Holmes's video work Outside the Box, featuring jazz musician Haftor Medbøe and his band. Contains an essay on the work by Louise S. Milne, photographs by Alkistis Terzi, and the artist in conversation with Rory MacLean.

Peripheral visions? Alternative film in a stateless nation. (2015)
Book Chapter
MacPherson, R. (2015). Peripheral visions? Alternative film in a stateless nation. In C. Atton (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media (268-277). Routledge

Scotland is a small, stateless nation whose mainstream media and national cinema have generally been positioned by media scholars as constituting an alternative to the UK’s metropolitan mainstream. Consequently the specificity of alternative practic... Read More about Peripheral visions? Alternative film in a stateless nation..

Is There Such A Thing as Southeast Asian Photography? (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Supartono, A. (2015, April). Is There Such A Thing as Southeast Asian Photography?. Paper presented at Making Southeast Asian Cultures: From Region to World, UC Berkeley, CA, USA

The photography scene in Southeast Asia has developed regionally since the early days of the camera. The flourishing commercial photographic studios in the region (thanks to the success of colonial enterprises that provided sufficient clientele) witn... Read More about Is There Such A Thing as Southeast Asian Photography?.

Dream Cultures in the Renaissance (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Milne, L. S. (2014). Dream Cultures in the Renaissance. In K. Antoni, & D. Weiss (Eds.), Sources of Mythology: Ancient and Contemporary Myths. Seventh Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology. , (153-178)

No abstract available.

Radical and Engaged Cinema in Scotland. (2014)
Book Chapter
MacPherson, R. (2014). Radical and Engaged Cinema in Scotland. In Directory of World Cinema Scotland. Intellect

A short history of radical and engaged films and filmmakers in Scotland from 1917 to the present.

Between exhibition and contemplation: exposing everyday entanglements within two online photography sites. (2014)
Presentation / Conference
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..

Cultural Change in the Creative Industries: a case study of BBC Graphic Design from 1990-2011 (2014)
Journal Article
Macdonald, I. (2014). Cultural Change in the Creative Industries: a case study of BBC Graphic Design from 1990-2011. Visual Communication, 13, 31-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357213507510

Using his own experience as a witness and participant in the convulsion that the BBC, and specifically the BBC Graphic Design department underwent, the author aims to illuminate the cultural change to the creative industries in many advanced industri... Read More about Cultural Change in the Creative Industries: a case study of BBC Graphic Design from 1990-2011.

Colonial Machine: the Image of the Industry (2014)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A. (2014). Colonial Machine: the Image of the Industry. In G. Newton (Ed.), Garden of the East: Photography in Indonesia 1860s-1940s (56-59). National Gallery of Australia

No abstract available.