Faculty Member, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Professor of Photography
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
About
Darren Newbury is Professor of Photography at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University. He studied photography and cultural studies at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and completed his PhD in 1995.
He has published widely on photography, photographic education and visual research. His most recent research has focused on the development of photography in apartheid South Africa and the re-use of historical images as a form of memorialisation in contemporary post-apartheid displays. His book on the subject, Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa, was published by the University of South Africa (UNISA) Press in 2009. He is also editor of the international journal Visual Studies.
He has served as an AHRC Peer Review College member, Postgraduate Panel member and convener, and Postgraduate Committee member. He has also been involved in the development of doctoral education and training in art and design since the mid 1990s.
