CONFERENCE BY LIZ WELLS: HIDDEN HISTORIES AND LANDSCAPE ENIGMAS

CONFERENCE BY LIZ WELLS: HIDDEN HISTORIES AND LANDSCAPE ENIGMAS

A conference by Liz Wells that accompanies the publication Campos de batalla. Bleda y Rosa.

“Focusing on battlefields and sites of trauma, this talk considers photographic strategies intended to unearth and suggest hidden histories. It evaluates photo methodologies and approaches to story-telling deployed by artist-photographers seeking to reveal historical sediments and, through referencing that which is known but may not be perceived, to invoke reflection on legacies of conflict”. Liz Wells.

Activity in Collaboration with the Master in Photography at the UPV and Fundació Per Amor a l’Art.

LIZ WELLS (Plymouth University)

Liz Wells writes and lectures on photographic practices. She edited The Photography Reader (2003), and Photography: A Critical Introduction(2015, 5^th ed.) and is a co-editor for photographies, Routledge journals. Publications on landscape include Land Matters, Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity (2011). Exhibitions as curator include: Light Touch, Baltimore Washington International Airport (February 12^th – June 21^st2014); Futureland Now – John Kippin, Chris Wainwright (Laing Gallery, Newcastle, September 15^th 2012 – January 20^th 2013), Sense of Place, European Landscape Photography (BOZAR, Brussels, 14^th June – 15^th September 2012), and Landscapes of Exploration (British art from Antarctica, Plymouth, February/March 2012; Cambridge, October/November 2013; Bournemouth, January/February 2015). She is Professor in Photographic Culture, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Plymouth University, UK, and co-convenes the research group for Land/Water and the Visual Arts (www.landwater-research.co.uk). She is an elected member of the Board of Directors, Society for Photographic Education.