2026

A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

2025

“Affective Realism: Reimagining Photography with the Google Pixel 9”, in AI Aesthetics: AI-generated Images Between Artistics and Aisthetics. Edited by Jan-Noël Thon and Lukas RA Wilde. London: Routledge.

“Modern Man in the Making” in Günther Sandner, Michael Werner Schwarz and Suzanne Winkler, Wissen für alle! (ISOTYPE). Hirmer/Wien Museum, Vienna. (Exhibition November 6, 2025 – April 5, 2026)

2024

“Camera Geologica / Mining Photography”, in Science Museum Group Journal, 2024, 22 (tenth birthday issue). Available here

“Take me to the River: Place and Material in Visual Culture”, in Visual Culture in Britain, 2024, 1–6. Available here

“The Oscillating Image”, in Diane Smyth (ed), Multi Multi Multi, Photoworks Annual 31, 2024, details here

“Photography's Other Sensitivities”, Media Theory 8, no 1 (special issue Seeing Photographically), 2024. Available here

“Keeping out the Fog: Atmospheric Contamination and Control in the Industrial Darkroom”, Photoresearcher 41,(special issue The Darkroom) 2024. Available here

“Lucia Moholy and the Isotype Institute” and “From Bauhaus to Bloomsbury”, in Lucia Moholy: Exposures, edited by Jordan Troeller, Kunsthalle Praha (exhibition also at Fotostiftung Schweiz in Winterthur in 2025).

2022

“Kind of Blue: Social Media Photography and Emotion”, Networked Images in Surveillance Capitalism, Special Issue of Digital Culture and Society, 2022

“Light Sensitive Material”, (with Junko Theresa Mikuriya) special issue of photographies, 14 (3), 2021. Available here

“‘Some Slight Eruptive Disease’: Victorian Verisimilitude in Photography and Plastercasting”, in The Matter of Mimesis, edited by Marjolijn Bol and E.C. Spary , Leiden: Brill 2022. Available here

2021

“Colorsnap! Colour photography, the market in patents and the 1929 crash”, History of Photography, 44 (4), 2021. Available here

“That Liking Feeling: Mood, Emotion and Social Media Photography”, in Ubiquity: Photography's Multitudes, edited by Jacob Lewis and Kyle Parry, University of Leuven Press 2021. Available here

“Lucia Moholy and German Photography History in Britain”, in Sites of Interchange: Modernism, Politics and Culture between Britain and Germany, 1919-1955, edited by Lucy Wasensteiner, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021, details here

“What Moves? The Itineraries of pre-Digital Photography”, in Images on the Move: Materiality — Networks — Formats, edited by Olga Moskatova, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2021 details here

“Feeling Photos: Photography, Picture Language and Mood Capture”, in Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image, edited by Tomáš Dvořák and Jussi Parikka, Edinburgh University Press, 2021, details here

2020

“The Worlding of Light and Air: Dufaycolor and Selochrome in the 1930s”, Visual Culture in Britain, 21 (2), 2020, 177-198

2019

“Of Tennis Courts and Fireplaces: Neurath's internment on the Isle of Man and his Politics of Design”, in Jordi Cat and Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds) New Perspectives on Otto Neurath’s Life and Works With the 1940-45 Neurath-Carnap Correspondence, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Series, Berlin: Springer 2019. More details here

with Rehan Hyder,“ Bristol: Urban Space and Underground Music Cultures”, in Ten Cities: Public Sphere, Urban Space, Club Culture, Goethe Institute / Spector, Leipzig, 2019. More details here

2018

Photography: The Unfettered Image, London: Routledge 2018. More details here

“Image Flow: Photography on Tap ”, photographies, 11 (2-3), 2018, 133-148

2017

“The Floating Face: Garbo, Photography and Death Masks”, photographies, 10 (2) 2017, 157-178

2015

Museum Media, edited by Michelle Henning, volume of the International Handbooks of Museum Studies (general eds. Sharon Macdonald and Helen Rees-Leahy, Wiley--‐Blackwell, 2015. More details here

“With and Without Walls: Photographic Reproduction and the Art Museum”, in Museum Media, edited by Michelle Henning, Wiley--‐Blackwell (published online 2013; print in 2015). Available here

“The subject as object: photography and the human body”, revised and updated version in fifth edition of Liz Wells (ed) Photography: A Critical Introduction, London: Routledge 2015. More details here

“Locating the 'Bristol Sound': Archiving Music as Everyday Life”, with Rehan Hyder. Sara Cohen, Robert Knifton, Marion Leonard, Les Roberts (eds), Sites Of Popular Music Heritage: Memories, Histories, Places, London: Routledge, 2014. More details here

“Otto Neurath”, in Ritzer, George (ed). Blackwell Encyclopedia Of Sociology. Blackwell Publishing, 2015. Blackwell Reference Online.

2012

“Isotypes and Elephants: Picture Language as Visual Writing in the Work and Correspondence of Otto Neurath”, in Susan Harrow (ed) The Art of The Text, University of Wales Press, 2012.

2011

“Living Life in Pictures: the Ambiguities of Isotype”, New Formations 71, Summer 2011.

“Neurath’s Whale”, in Sam Alberti (ed) The Afterlife of Animals , University of Virginia Press, 2011.More details here

2009

”The Cosmic Symbol”, in Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins (eds) The Object Reader, London: Routledge, 2009. More details here

2008

“A Picture of Virtue”, review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity, New Formations, 64, Winter 2008. Available here

2007

“Legibility and Affect: Museums as New Media”, in Sharon Macdonald and Paul Basu (eds) Exhibition Experiments, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.More details here

“New lamps for Old: Photography, Obsolescence and Social Change”, in Charles Acland (ed) Residual Media, Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2007. More details here

“The World Wide Web as Wunderkammer”, in James Lyons and John Plunkett (eds) Multimedia Histories , Exeter: Exeter University Press 2007. More details here

“The Pig in the Bath: New Materialisms and Cultural Studies”, Radical Philosophy 145, September-October 2007. Available here

“Anthropomorphic Taxidermy and the Death of Nature: The Curious Art of Hermann Ploucquet, Walter Potter and Charles Waterton”, Victorian Literature and Culture 35, 2007, 663-678.

Review of Mark Sandberg, ‘Living Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums and Modernity’, New Formations, 61, Summer 2007. Available here

2006

“Skins of the real: taxidermy and photography”, in Bryndis Snaebjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson, Nanoq: Flat-out and Bluesome, Blackdog Press, 2006. Available here

“New media”, in Sharon Macdonald (ed) A Companion to Museum Studies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. (Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007).More details here

2003

“Fuel, metal, air: the appearances and disappearances of Amelia Earhart”, with Rebecca Goddard. In Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant (eds), Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material, Bristol: Intellect Press 2003. More details here

1999

“Don’t touch me I’m electric: on sense and sensation in modernity”, in Jane Arthurs and Jean Grimshaw (eds.) Women’s Bodies: Discipline And Transgression, London: Cassell, 1999.Available here

1995

“Digital encounters: mythical pasts and electronic presence”, in Martin Lister (ed) The Photographic Image in Digital Culture, London: Routledge, 1995.Available here