Contemporary Photography as Collaboration

Mathilde Bertrand  is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, France. Her research focuses on the history of independent British photography in the post-war period, particularly on the role of photography collectives, photographic magazines and the community photography movement in fostering a discussion around the politics of representation from the 1970s onwards. She has published in the journals  Photography and Culture,  LISA e-journal,  Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique , and co-edited  Ici notre défaite a commencé , on The Miners' Strike, 1984-5 (Syllepses, 2016).

Karine Chambefort-Kay  is Senior Lecturer in English studies and Visual Culture at Université Paris Est Créteil, France. Her research interests include the cultural, social, and political uses of images in British contemporary society, as well as exhibition and archive policies, and the issues of identity formation, memory and nationalism. She has published on various photographic practices and projects in the UK. She has published in the journals  Image and Narrative ,  InMedia ,  Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique , and  Archivo Papers Journal .