Staff

Professor Arabella Plouviez
Head of Photography
Tel (0191) 515 3041
Email arabella.plouviez@sunderland.ac.uk

Arabella's practice within photography is concerned with looking at the ways in which women are represented and the impact that styles of photography have had in defining women within society. Having worked with a number of communities who are under represented within the mainstream, her work gives voice to people often unheard. One specialist area within this has been looking at both historic and contemporary imagery in relation to women and both insanity and criminality, creating work that questions the practice of photography and our desire for the image to provide evidence.

Arabella Plouviez

Professor John Kippin
Lecturer in Photography
Tel (0191) 515 3041
Email john.kippin@sunderland.ac.uk

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John's practice is as an artist and photographer working largely within the subject area of the landscape. John has used photography to interrogate the ways in which the landscape is constructed and perceived. John is interested in the idea that the landscape is a palimpsest, which is continuously being overwritten and changed to represent contemporary concerns within society, politics, economics and culture. John is also interested in commenting on our relationships with our environment and surroundings together with constructing visual interpretations of the past. 

John Kippin

Dave Harvey
Lecturer in Photography
Tel (0191) 515 2125
Email dave.harvey@sunderland.ac.uk

Dave's work focuses on representations of landscape. Dave designs and constructs panorama cameras that enable the production of highly specific forms of imagery. Employing the use of surveying and mapping techniques he creates images that chart journeys through the land. Dave's interests lie in the physical scars cut into the landscape through ancient paths and walkways, the non-visible divisions of political boundaries, the conceptual constructs of grid references and the prime meridian.

Dave Harvey

Craig Ames
Lecturer in Photography
Tel (0191) 515
Email craig.ames@sunderland.ac.uk

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Much of Craig's work is informed and influenced by everyday experiences. Craig finds that the photographic medium provides the ideal platform from which he can freely express his concerns and research interests.  As a photographer, Craig draws on all the elements of contemporary photography and image-making that he finds most revealing, poignant and vital in order to create his own, in-depth photographic responses.

Craig Ames

Marjolaine Ryley
Lecturer in Photography & Video Art
Tel (0191) 515 2125
Email marjolaine.ryley@sunderland.ac.uk

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Marjolaine's research explores the genre of family photography. Marjolaine is interested in the many fictions created by the family album and the key role photography has played in defining representations of the family since its inception. Her research investigates how artists and photographers working both in fine art practice and photography approach the subject and the different strategies used. 

Dr Alexandra Moschovi
Lecturer in Photographic history and theory
Tel (0191) 515 3465
Email alexandra.moschovi@sunderland.ac.uk

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Alexandra's research has concentrated on the institutionalisation of photography in the 1980s and 1990s, exploring how its belated accommodation in the modern/contemporary art museum ushered in an ontological reassessment not only of its properties as a fine art practice, but also of the museum's foundational principles.

Alexandra Moschovi

Dr Alexandra Moschovi giving a paper in Leiden, Netherlands. 2007.

Dr Carol McKay
Lecturer in Photographic history and theory
Tel (0191) 515
Email carol.mckay@sunderland.ac.uk

Carol's research interests are focused on the photographic archive, both domestic (family album) and institutional (museum-based archives).  Carol is concerned also with the relationship between contemporary photographic practices and the archive, in particular curatorial initiatives that seek to explore interactions and relationships between the two.

Carol

Associate Lecturers

Clive Jackson
Digital Imaging


Throughout all of Clive's work, his main focus is examining how people interact and function within their existing environments. By using ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) his working process shows the image stripped bare to its core components, and reduces the synthetic and virtual image to its base level of graphic representation.

Peter Fryer
Documentary Photography

Lebanon
Photography gives Peter the opportunity to produce work that addresses social and political issues through the images and experiences of people who live on the margins of society. These experiences are often reflected through the family or the small group of individuals who constitute the communities in which he works. Peter works on long term projects, such as the Palestinians, Yemeni community in North East England and UK refugees and asylum seekers.
  
Lindsay Duncanson
Video Art

Home
Lindsay is interested in illusion of scale, geometry and of landscape: how we create structures and frame works to live in and by; how we deal with the world and its surroundings with a system of illusions. Lindsay is particularly interested in notions of home and how that is affected by its positioning within a landscape.

Visiting Professor

Shahidul Alam
Photographic Activist

Founder of Drik Photography Agency in Bangladesh (Click here for Drik web-site), and Pathshala, the first school of photography in Bangladesh, (Click here for Pathshala web-site) Shahidul is an internationally recognised photo-journalist and political activist.