Join us for the next online seminar!
Date: Thursday 29 January 2026
Time: 2-3.30 pm UK time
Platform: Ms Teams
SENSITIVITY AND ETHICS IN MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Speakers:
Dr Katherine Rawling (University of Leeds)
Kate Jarman (Barts Health NHS Archives)
Dr Savannah Dodd (Photography Ethics Centre)
Historians, archivists, practitioners and curatos are expected to approach medical photography with sensitivity. But what does that mean? What makes historical medical photographs “sensitive” material? Is it the content of the image, the context in which the photographs were taken and used, or the ways in which we present them today? In this seminar, Dr Katherine Rawling, Kate Jarman and Dr Savannah Dodd will share short provocations on the theme of sensitivity.
The aim of the seminar will be to encourage discussion, so we will have plenty of time for questions.
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