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Mark Durden is a writer and artist. He studied Fine Art at Exeter College of Art and Design and at Glasgow School of Art, going on to study History and Theory of Art at University of Kent at Canterbury— attaining an MA by research for a thesis on Roland Barthes and a PhD on Photography and the Book. He has taught both Art History and Fine Art at Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury and at Staffordshire University. He taught History of Photography at University of Derby where he became Reader in 2002 and Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) in Photography in 2003. He left Derby in 2007 to join Newport as Professor of Photography. He has published extensively on photography and contemporary art and since 1997 has worked as part of the artists’ group Common Culture.
20 doctorates to completion as Director of Studies, including Olivia M. da Silva, In The Net (2000); Jane Fletcher, The Way She Looks: Robert Thompson Crawshay’s Photographs of his Daughter, Rose Harriette(2002); Haris Kakarouhas, Suspended Time, (2003); Peter Day, Invisible Boundaries(2007); Nikos Panayotopoulos, Terra Cognita: The Western Hegemonic Representations of Greece Through the Case of Athens (2008); Yannis Kontos, Beyond Photojournalism, (2011); Geraint Davies, Dimensions, Perceptions: Resonances from Dürer’s MELENCOLIA I (2012); Dragana Jurisic, YU: The Lost Country (2013); Amak Mahmoudian: Double Identity (2015); Daniel Blaufuks: W.G.Sebald and Georges Perec: Photography, Film, Memory and the Holocaust (2017).
Alba Gimenez – Title: Between Evidence and Estrangement: Brecht’s Resonance in Contemporary Documentary Practice.
Director of Studies: Professor Mark Durden
First Supervisor: Dr Eileen Little
George Petry – Title: The Vietnam War archive of Welsh Photographer Philip Jones Griffiths.
Director of Studies: Professor Mark Durden
First Supervisor: Dr Russell Roberts, Reader in Photography
Ana Catarina Pinho – Title: Transformations of the Real: Photographic Archives in Contemporary Documentary Practices
Director of Studies: Professor Mark Durden
First Supervisor: Lisa Barnard, Reader in Documentary Photography
Clémentine Schneidermann – Title: Fantasies from the Real : The Representation(s) of Working-Class Communities in Documentary Photography.
Director of Studies: Professor Mark Durden
First Supervisor: Lisa Barnard, Reader in Documentary Photography
Alfredo Cramerotti completed his PhD, Expanded Photography: The Hyperimage, in 2020.
Director of Studies: Professor Mark Durden
First Supervisor: Lisa Barnard, Reader in Documentary Photography
Daniel Blaufuks completed his PhD, Photography in the works of Georges Perec and W.G. Sebald and the relation to Memory and the Holocaust, in 2017.
Director of Studies: Professor Mark Durden
First Supervisor: Dr Russell Roberts, Reader in Photography
Amak Mahmoodian completed her PhD, Double Identity, in 2015. Director of Studies: Professor Mark Durden. First Supervisor: Dr Helen Sear.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Special issue
Research output: Contribution to journal › Exhibition Review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Exhibition Review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Exhibition Review
Mark Durden (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Mark Durden (Speaker) & João Leal (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Mark Durden (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Mark Durden (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Mark Durden (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising an event
Mark Durden & João Leal
4/10/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
31/05/14
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research