Michelle Henning is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, specialising in Photography and Visual Culture in the School of Art, Design and Media at the University of Brighton (since 2013). She also holds the post of Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Digital Cultures Research Centre at the University of the West of England, where she was Associate Professor in Media and Culture until 2013. She is the author of Museums, Media and Cultural Theory (Routledge 2006) Museum Media (Blackwell 2014) and numerous essays on photography, museums, digital culture, media history and cultural theory. She also works as an artist and photographer.
Patricia Holland is a writer, lecturer and researcher specialising in television, photography and popular imagery. Her interest in domestic photography and popular imagery goes back to the 1980s, when she collaborated with photographer Jo Spence to produce Family Snaps: The Meanings of Domestic Photography (Virago 1991). She is also the author of Picturing Childhood (I.B. Tauris 2006). She has contributed to several Readers on photography, television and cultural studies and is the author of The Angry Buzz: ‘This Week’ and Current Affairs Television (I.B.Tauris 2006) and Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The Challenge to Public Service (Palgrave Macmillan 2013).
Derrick Price is a writer who has published extensively on photography, landscape and visual culture. He worked for many years in arts education, most recently as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Art, Media and Design at the University of the West of England. An active participant in cultural projects he is a member of the Board of Management of Ffotogallery, Cardiff, and Chair of the Council of Management, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol. He is currently writing a book on the landscape and culture of industrial South Wales.
Anandi Ramamurthy is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Central Lancashire where she teaches on BA Film and Media and MA Photography in the School of Journalism and Media. She is the author of Imperial Persuaders: Images of Africa and Asian in British Advertising (Manchester University Press 2003) and Black Star: Britain’s Asian Youth Movements (Pluto 2013). She is co-editor of Visual Culture in Britain at the End of Empire (Ashgate 2006) and Colonial Advertising and Commodity Racism (Lit Verlag 2013). She is the founder of www.tandana.org, a web-based archive of visual ephemera relating to the Asian Youth Movements in Britain.
Liz Wells is Professor in Photographic Culture, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Plymouth University, UK. Publications on landscape include Land Matters, Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity (2011). She edited The Photography Reader (2003), and is a co-editor for photographies, Routledge journals. She has contributed numerous essays on people and place to photographers’ monographs and exhibition catalogues. Recent exhibitions as curator include Light Touch (Maryland Arts Place for Baltimore Washington International Airport, Feb–June 2014); Futureland Now (Laing Gallery, Newcastle, Sept 2012–Jan 2013); Sense of Place, European Landscape Photography (BOZAR, Brussels, June–Sept 2012); Landscapes of Exploration, recent British art from Antarctica (UK venues: Plymouth, Feb–Mar 2012; Cambridge, Oct–Nov 2013; Bournemouth, Jan–Feb 2015).