CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY

ADAM MURRAY is Senior Lecturer in Fashion Communication at Liverpool John Moores University and co-founder of Preston is my Paris. His work has been exhibited internationally and is held at the Tate Library, Fotomuseum Winterthur Collection, Artists’ Books Special Collections at Manchester Metropolitan Unviersity and the Special Collections at London College of Communication.

SIMON PIERSE is Senior Lecturer at the School of Art, Aberystwyth University. He is an artist and art historian with interests in post-war British and Australian art. He has published widely in Britain and Australia on aspects of art and identity. His book Australian Art and Artists in London 1950-1965: An Antipodean Summer, was published in 2012, winning an award from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. In addition to Keith Vaughan, Simon has written on artists Michael Andrews, Klaus Friedeberger, Josef Herman and Sidney Nolan. He initially trained as a painter at the Slade School of Art and afterwards studied art history and theory at Essex University.

JANE SIMON is a Lecturer in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She researches and teaches across media studies, visual cultural studies and photography. Her approach to contemporary visual culture is also a practical one: she is a visual artist, specialising in photographic media and artists’ books. Jane received her PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney in 2007. In 2010 she was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship to undertake research at the European Centre for Photographic Research at

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