Liz Wells, Professor in Photographic Culture at Plymouth University, is delivering a number of keynote presentations this summer.
On 30 June, Liz will be discussing visual literacy, criticality and photo education at the Association for Photography in Higher Education (APHE) conference, hosted jointly by Plymouth University and Plymouth College of Art.
And on 4 July 2016, she will be speaking at ‘Northern Light’ at Sheffield Hallam University. This conference and related exhibition explores the ways that photographic images address notions of a Northern landscape – whether drawing on established traditions of art and photography or whether concerned with contemporary photographic and lens based practice.
Liz edited Photography: A Critical Introduction (2015 5th ed.) and The Photography Reader (2003, new edition due 2017); she is also co-editor for the Routledge journal, photographies. Her publications on landscape include Land Matters, Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity (2011), and ‘Modes of Investigation: On Photography and Environment’ in Hans Hedberg et al (eds) Broken: Environmental Photography (2014). Recent exhibitions as curator include: Light Touch, Baltimore Washington International Airport (2014); Futureland Now – John Kippin, Chris Wainwright (Laing Gallery, Newcastle, 2012), Sense of Place, European Landscape Photography (BOZAR, Brussels, 2012), and Landscapes of Exploration, British art from Antarctica (Plymouth, 2012; Cambridge, 2013; Bournemouth, 2015). She co-convenes the research group Land/Water and the Visual Arts at Plymouth University and is also a visiting professor, Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster, and an elected member of the Board of Directors, Society for Photographic Education.