{"id":929,"date":"2016-06-27T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=929"},"modified":"2016-07-01T15:07:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:07:30","slug":"929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/06\/27\/929\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote presentations by Prof Liz Wells this summer in Plymouth and Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/staff\/liz-wells\" target=\"_blank\">Liz Wells<\/a>, Professor in Photographic Culture at Plymouth University, is delivering a number of keynote presentations this summer.<\/p>\n<p>On 30 June, Liz will be discussing visual literacy, criticality and photo education\u00a0at the Association for Photography in Higher Education (APHE) conference, hosted jointly by Plymouth University and Plymouth College of Art.<\/p>\n<p>And on 4 July 2016, she will be speaking at <a href=\"https:\/\/northernlight2016.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Northern Light&#8217;<\/a> at Sheffield Hallam University.\u00a0This conference and related exhibition explores the ways that photographic images address notions of a Northern landscape \u2013 whether drawing on established traditions of art and photography or whether concerned with contemporary photographic and lens based practice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/d39ner1f41xyl1.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/production\/staff_member\/image\/0\/732\/xlarge_Liz_Wells_Photography.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Liz Wells\" width=\"255\" height=\"255\" \/>Liz edited <em>Photography: A Critical Introduction<\/em> (2015 5th ed.) and <em>The Photography Reader<\/em> (2003, new edition due 2017); she is also co-editor for the Routledge journal,\u00a0<em>photographies<\/em>. Her publications on landscape include <em>Land Matters, Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity<\/em> (2011), and \u2018Modes of Investigation: On Photography and Environment\u2019 in Hans Hedberg et al (eds) <em>Broken: Environmental Photography<\/em> (2014). Recent exhibitions as curator include: <em>Light Touch<\/em>, Baltimore Washington International Airport (2014); <em>Futureland Now \u2013 John Kippin, Chris Wainwright<\/em> (Laing Gallery, Newcastle, 2012), <em>Sense of Place, European Landscape Photography<\/em> (BOZAR, Brussels, 2012), and <em>Landscapes of Exploration, British art from Antarctica<\/em> (Plymouth, 2012; Cambridge, 2013; Bournemouth, 2015). She co-convenes the research group\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.landwater-research.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Land\/Water and the Visual Arts<\/a>\u00a0at Plymouth University\u00a0and\u00a0is also a visiting professor, Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster, and an elected member of the Board of Directors, Society for Photographic Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0at the Association for Photography in Higher Education (APHE) conference, hosted jointly by Plymouth University and Plymouth College of Art. And on 4 July 2016,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/06\/27\/929\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keynote presentations by Prof Liz Wells this summer in Plymouth and Sheffield<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[353,22,31,354,352,52],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-aphe","tag-keynote","tag-landwater","tag-landscape","tag-liz-wells","tag-photography","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}