Susan Bright
Professor
Curator and writer. Particular research interests include self portraiture, family and vernacular photographic practices, and the expanded curatorial field across digital and gallery spaces. Education She is completing her PhD in Curating from Goldsmiths College. Work Experience and Teaching Assistant Curator at the National Portrait Gallery and Acting Director for the MA Photography program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. Visiting Scholar in the MFA Photography Program at The Arts Institute Bosto, spring 2014. Exhibitions Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood (The Photographers’ Gallery and Foundling Museum, London), Something Out Of Nothing (Fotogalleriet, Oslo), How We Are: Photographing Britain (co-curated with Val Williams, Tate Britain) and Face of Fashion at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Publications Art Photography Now (2005 and expanded for a new edition in 2011) and Auto Focus -The Self Portrait in Contemporary Photography (2010) both published by Thames and Hudson.
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Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography
Faculty member in Photography Susan BrightMore
PCA Photography Faculty Writes Introduction of New Food Photography Book
From basic sustenance to savory repasts, food awakens the senses and touches both private and public life. It can be political, religious, aspirational, commercial, creative, symbolic, national, and regional.More
Paris Photo 2016: PCA Workshop
Every year during Paris Photo the PCA photography department creates events to celebrate photography and broadcast the work of our students.More
PCA Photography faculty Susan Bright interviewed in 1000 Words
Susan Bright, curator and writer shares her perceptions and inspirations with Sabine Mirlesse.More
PCA Photography Faculty Member Susan Bright is the Invited Speaker for the Peter Turner Memorial Lecture
Each year the College of Creative Arts brings an internationally significant photographic historian, theorist or artist to Wellington to deliver the annual Peter Turner Memorial Lecture. The lecture has been established in the memory of the late Peter Turner – photographic historian,...More
PCA Photo Faculty Susan Bright is Part of the PHotoEspaña Jury
After covering photography in Spain and Latin-America, PHotoEspañais now in its nineteenth edition aiming to provide a wide view of European photography. Read to find out more!More