Professor Michelle Henning

Michelle writes and researches on photography, museums, media, modernism and visual culture. Her background is in fine art and cultural studies, but her research has increasingly focused on: museum media and exhibitions displays; a cultural and environmental history of photography; digital photography and social media. Funded by the AHRC she has researched in the archives of the British photographic company Ilford Limited. Previous grants have funded research into taxidermy in museums and the work of the Viennese polymath, social scientist and museum innovator Otto Neurath. She also sits on the editorial board of photographies journal, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens and the journal Visual Culture in Britain. She has been involved in collaborative and advisory work with various UK institutions including Bristol Museums and Archives, Arnolfini and Tate Liverpool. She has been a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and of the jury for the Crespo Foundation After Nature prize at C|O Berlin.