DCAPS has moved!

Established in 2005, the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies (DCAPS) brings together academics with research interests in the photographic image at the University of Durham. It aims to forge regional, national and international links with researchers, practitioners, curators and others with shared interests in photography. DCAPS runs a regular programme of seminars, workshops and a major biennial international conference, the latest of which took place at the end of September 2009. It is also the hub for a cohort of postgraduate students. For further details of past and future DCAPS activities, please visit its new website, www.dcaps.net.

Postgraduate Programmes

The taught MA in the Photographic Image will be suspended for Academic Year 2011/12. However, we are still keen to hear from applicants wishing to study for MA by Research and PhD degrees in areas of photography theory and criticism. Go here for further details of our research postgraduate programmes and funding available from Durham University and the AHRC.

Leverhulme Visiting Professorship - Ariella Azoulay

DCAPS is pleased to announce that Prof. Ariella Azoulay (Bar Ilan University, Israel) is currently at Durham for an eight-month period as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in January 2011. Author of The Civil Contract of Photography (MIT Press, 2008), Once Upon A Time: Photography Following Walter Benjamin (Bar Ilan University Press, 2006) and Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy (MIT Press, 2001), Prof. Azoulay will be based in the Department of Geography and work closely with the members of DCAPS. Her research programme is entitled 'Photography, Colonialism and States of Emergency', and will include two public lectures, two workshops and two seminars.