Daniel C. Blight Lecturer School of Media Email:
[email protected] Website: danielcampbellblight.com Scholarly biography Daniel C. Blight is Lecturer in Photography (Historical & Critical Studies), School of Media, University of Brighton, and the author of The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization (SPBH Editions and Art on the Underground, 2019). Blight works on various forms of the essay, fiction and poetry, and has written for magazines and journals including 1000 Words, Aperture, Foam, frieze, The Guardian, Philosophy of Photography, Photoworks, Vogue Italia, as well as contributed chapters to publications from Manchester Art Gallery, UCL Art Museum, Art Museum of Estonia, FOMU Belgium, the Australian Centre for Photography and Rowman & Littlefield. He has been a visiting lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts, Coventry University, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Royal College of Art, University of Copenhagen, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Photography Studies College Melbourne, University of Oxford and Yale University. Research interests General interests: history and theory of photography; photography and philosophy; the essay form; image-text relations; contemporary photographic art; contemporary photobooks; sociology of race; critical philosophy of race; racial capitalism; critical race theory; critical whiteness studies; scientific racism Research specialisms: photography and racial whiteness; photography and race; photography and colonialism; photography and orientalism; photography