Autochromes Observed

Paper presented with Dr. Giorgio Trumpy (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) as part of the PERCEIVE Webinar program, 17 June 2025 [upcoming]

‘My assets were one small hand camera and UNLIMITED CONFIDENCE!’: Locating Eva Barrett

Paper presented at Women of Photography: A 24-Hour Conference-a-thon Celebrating International Women’s Day 2025, 8 March 2025

A greater understanding of colour objects in museum and heritage collections: Autochromes

Paper presented with Dr. Giorgio Trumpy (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) at Color Photography in the 19th Century and Early 20th Century: Sciences, Technologies, Empires consortium, 21 January 2025

Embracing the Autochrome

Paper presented for the Royal Photographic Society, 3 May 2023

Autochromes and Representation

Paper presented at Color Photography in the 19th Century and Early 20th Century: Sciences, Technologies, Empires consortium, 18 October 2022

Occupying Space: Signals, The Festival of Women Photographers, 1994

Paper presented at Concerning Photography, Paul Mellon Centre, in association with The Photographers’ Gallery, 25 November – 2 December 2021

‘[U]nalloyed gold of purest romance’: The reality and romance of the autochrome portrait 

Paper and round table discussion for Understanding British Portraits annual seminar, National Portrait Gallery, London, 14 October 2021

Deceptive innocence: Nostalgia and the aesthetic of the autochrome

Paper presented at the PHRC Annual Conference: Photography and its Many Colours: Innovations, Emotions and Activism, University of Leicester, 14-15 June 2021

‘An ‘absolute impression of reality’: Capturing the wonder of the stereo-autochrome

Paper presented at the Stereo & Immersive Media International Conference, 11- 19 June 2021

Autochromes at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Paper presented at Virtual Round Table Discussion, Icon Photographic Materials Group, 10 December 2020

Staging isolation: Images of seclusion and separation

Paper presented at Empty Spaces and the Representation of Isolation conference, Institute of Art History, Split, 3-5 December 2020

Queen Alexandra: Collector, tastemaker and ‘​snapshooter’

Paper presented at Women Collectors conference, National Galleries of Scotland, 28 September 2019

Pioneering women photographers in the Royal Collection

Lecture presented at The Lightbox, Woking, 28 March 2019

Crown and camera: A Victorian passion for photography

Lecture presented at Windsor Castle, 13 March 2019

Focusing on Women Photographers

Paper presented at Women & Power: Redress the balance conference, University of Oxford, 6-7 March 2019

Lost and found: Discovering and revealing the histories of women photographers, 1850-1950

Paper presented at Women, Work and Commerce in the Creative Industries, Britain 1750 – 1950 conference, Westminster College, London, 9 February 2019

“Shot her way to success”: The life and work of Eva Barrett’

Paper presented at the Understanding British Portraits Annual Seminar, National Portrait Gallery, London, 9 October 2018

Framing the vernacular: Snapshot photography in the art museum

Paper presented at Images in the Post-Truth Era, 2nd International Conference of Photography and Academic Research, Birkbeck College, University of London, 6-8 September 2018

An evening with Alice

Lecture presented at Stangate House (National Trust of South Australia), Aldgate, South Australia, 3 August 2013