Resources
Recent publications and presentations by the Critical Image Forum members, associates, researchers and partners.
Bibliography
Bishop-Stall, R. An Inuit Approach to Archival Work. Co-authored with Heather Campbell. In The Routledge Companion of Indigenous Art Histories in Canada and the United States, edited by Heather Igloliorte and Carla Taunton. Routledge, 2023.
Bishop-Stall, R. Smile; Social Issues; Swing: Bias and Contradiction in Evolving Archival Descriptions of Indigenous Subjects. In Facing Black Star, edited by Thierry Gervais and Vincent Lavoie, 255-276. Toronto: MIT Press/The Image Centre, 2023.
Bishop-Stall, R. The Art of the Apology: Apathy, Accountability, and the Politics of Redress. Art Journal Open, December 2020.
Bitter, S. & Weber, H., eds. Unsettling Educational Modernism: Simon Fraser University. Adocs Hamburg in cooperation with Edition Camera Austria, Graz, 2021.
Bitter, S. & Weber, H. Front, Field, Line, Plane: Researching the Militant Image. Edited by Ulf Wuggenig and Hannes Loichinger. Adocs, 2016.
Bitter, S. & Weber, H. BitterWeber: Live Like This! Edition Camera Austria, 2005.
Brown, N.E., Bussert, K., Hattwig, D. & Medaille, A. Keeping Up With…Visual Literacy. Association of College & Research Libraries, 2013. https://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/visual_literacy.
Brown, William and Mila Zuo, “Critical Race Theory and Film-Philosophy,” Film-Philosophy journal 29:2 (2025). 301-311.
Diack, H. DISPOSSESSION: Photography, Migration, and Object Ontology at the Border.
Diack, H. Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art.
Diack, H. and others. Global Photography: A Critical History.
D’Onofrio, C. Intuition Commons, 2018. www.intuitioncommons.com.
D’Onofrio, C. Scattered in Existence: The Role of Community in Arts Research. In Disruption and Convergence: Generating New Conversations through Arts Research, edited by Rébecca Bourgault and Catherine Rosamond. Brill, 2024.
D’Onofrio, C. & Epp Buller, R. Conversation: Tending Paths. In Disruption and Convergence: Generating New Conversations through Arts Research, edited by Rébecca Bourgault and Catherine Rosamond. Brill, 2024.
Dufour, J. Ellis, S. & Latour, J. 2021. Reimagining Canadian Art Practices and Art Collections: From Research to Publication, Preservation, and Promotion, in Art Documentation 40(1): 1-23.
Ellis, S. 2025. “The Ephemeral Remains: Mapping Fifty Years of a Living Archive and UNIT/PITT’s History as an Artist-Run Centre.” In UNIT is U, edited by Alison Bosley, Catherine de Montreuil, and Kira Saragih, 19-45. Burnaby, BC: Hemlock Printers, 2025. ISBN: 978-1-927394-43-4.
Fong, D. Curating ‘Chinese Canadianness’– Relational Technologies of Meaning-Making in Museums, BC Studies, accepted June 14, 2024.
Kunard, A. & Payne, C. eds. The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada. Montreal: McGill/Queen’s University Press, 2011.
Kunard, A. Still Moving: Fugitive and Unfolding: Jin-me Yoon and Photography. In Jin-me Yoon. Göttingen: Steidl, 2022.
Kurd, N. Representing the Kashmir Conflict in Contemporary Art. In Esse Arts+Opinions 96 (2019): 34-41.
Langford, M. 2026. A History of Photography in Canada. Volume 2. A Medium Unleashed, 1919-1969 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press).
Langford, M. 2025. A History of Photography in Canada. Volume 1. A Medium Unleashed, 1919-1969 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press).
Langford, M. 2025. “Between Actuality and Invention: Canadian Photographic Illustration in Post-WWII Print Culture,” Universities Art Association of Canada conference, York University, 2025.
Lerner, J. 2021. Experimental Self-Portraits in Early French Photography. New York and London: Routledge, 2021.
Lerner, J. 2024. "Le Noyé [The Drowned Man]." In Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography, edited by Karen Hellman and Carolyn Peter, 96-101. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2024. Published to accompany an exhibition, Hippolyte Bayard: A Persistant Pioneer, at the J. Paul Getty Museum April 9 to July 7, 2024.
Lerner, J. 2024. "Construction worker, Paris." In Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography, edited by Karen Hellman and Carolyn Peter, 219-221. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2024.
Lerner, J. 2023. "Bayard’s Boutique." The Art Bulletin 105, no. 4 (December 2023): 10-35.
Liu, A. Divine Threads: The Visual and Material Culture of Cantonese Opera. Vancouver: Figure 1 Publishing and Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, 2019.
Liu, A. ed. Gu Xiong: The Remains of a Journey. Vancouver: Centre A and Canton-sardine, 2021.
Mann, M. The Trouble of Occupying Others: Althea Thauberger Confronts the Violence of the Archive. Momus.ca. March 23, 2018.
McCormick, K.M. Inventing a Photographic Past for Japan: From A Century of Japanese Photography (1968) to the Construction of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. In History of Photography 46, no. 4 (2022): 243-265. DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2022.2249317.
McCormick, K.M. Tokiwa Toyoko and the Gendered Politics of Postwar Photography Culture. In Japan Forum 34, no. 3 (2021): 383-411. DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2021.1923553.
McCormick, K.M. Ogawa Kazumasa and the Halftone Photograph: Japanese War Albums in Turn of the Twentieth Century Japan. In Trans-Asia Photography Review 8, no. 1 (Spring 2017).
McCormick, K.M. & Cushman, C. The Women Who Built Worlds with Their Cameras. In I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1880s to Now, edited by K. McCormick and C. Cushman, 37-54. New York: Aperture, 2024.
McManus, K. 2025. “The History of Bird Photography: What Can It Teach Us?” Open Access Government, April 2025. Available at https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/the-history-of-bird-photography-what-can-it-teach-us/189951/.
McManus, K. 2024. “How Has Photography Shaped Ornithology and Bird Conservation?” Futurum Careers, 2024. https://doi.org/10.33424/FUTURUM554.
Mitchell, K. & Mohamed, F. Black, Alive, and Looking Back at You: In Conversation With Karice Mitchell. C Magazine, Dec. 15, 2024.
Molnár, E. & Schwierin, M. eds. Zach Blas: Unknown Ideals. London: Sternberg Press, 2022.
Moosang, F. The Frontier Portraits of C.D. Hoy. Art Canada Institute | Institut de l’Art Canadien, 2019. https://www.aci-iac.ca/the-essay/through-the-lens-of-cd-hoy/.
Moosang, F. Futile Gestures: Photo Albums and the Ecology of Memory. Geist, no. 70, 2007.
Moosang, F. Memory Arranger. Geist, no. 76, Spring 2010.
Moosang, F. Traces of a Life: The Abandoned Album of Eddie Brazil. Geist, vol. 7, no. 29, 1998.
Moser, G. Symposium review (forthcoming), “Photography from the Struggles for Independence: Practices, circulations and aesthetics,” Trans Asia Photography 15.2 (Fall 2025).
Moser, G. Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination, Christopher Pinney, PhotoDemos Collective, Naluwembe Binaisa, Vindhya Buthpitiya, Konstantinos Kalantzis, Ileana L. Selejan and Sokphea Young, eds., History of Photography.
Moser, G. encyclopedia entry (in press), “Photography and the Photographic Gaze,” Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture.
Moser, G. “Sea Roads and Seditious Subjects: Looking Disobediently at the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee’s lantern slides of British Malaya (1907-1912),” The Imaginary of Disobedience, Duke University, Durham, NC, January 19, 2026.
Moser, G. (co-authored with student researchers Charles Marco Diokno Manzo, Roberta da Silva Medina and Jeffery Newberry): “Doubly Exposed: Listening for the Resonance of Foucault’s Biopolitics in Contemporary Photography,” Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century, OCAD University, Toronto, May 29-30, 2024.
Moser, G. “A Disobedient Gaze: Artists in the colonial photographic archive,” On Reality: Düsseldorf photo+ biennale for visual and sonic media symposium, May 17-18, 2024.
O´Brian, J. 2024. John Scott: Firestorm. Toronto and Vancouver: McMichael Art Collection and Figure 1, 2024. (172 pages); Delirium. Vancouver: Delirium Editions, 2024
O´Brian, J. 2024. “Frankenstein’s Stitches,” Le récit / The Narrative (Montreal: Editions Artexte and the Jarislowsky Institute, 2024), 33-45; “Tribute to Leslie Dawn: Art Historian, Contrarian, Colleague,” Journal of Canadian Art History, Vol. 40:2 (2024), 6-9; “Conversation: Patrik Andersson / Lotta Antonsson / John O’Brian,” Lotta Antonsson: West Coast / West Coast (Vancouver: Trapp Projects, 2024).
Payne, C. History and Identity: Althea Thauberger’s L’arbre est dans ses feuilles. In National Gallery of Canada Magazine, October 19, 2018.
Payne, C. The Official Picture: The National Film Board of Canada’s Still Photography Division and the Image of Canada, 1941-71. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013.
Payne, C., Greenhorn, B., Kigjugalik Webster, D. & Williamson, C. eds. Atiqput: Inuit Oral History and Project Naming. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022.
Payne, C. Inuit, the Crown, and Racialized Visuality: Photographs from the 1956 Canadian Governor General’s Arctic Tour. In Photography and Culture (2022): 1-23. DOI: 10.1080/17514517.2022.2096280.
Payne, C. & Thomas, J. Aboriginal Interventions into the Photographic Archives: A Dialogue. In Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation XVIII, no. 2 (June 2002): 109-125.
Porto, N. 2024. “Three stories about José de Guimarães’ donation”, in Mestre, Marta (ed.) Donation José de Guimarães, Centro Internacional de Artes José de Guimarães, Guimarães, pps:12-19
Porto, N. 2024. The Dundo Museum: two instances of Primitivism: the first as tragedy; the second as farce., in Mestre, Marta and Pinto dos Santos, Mariana, (eds.) Troubles with Primitivism – a view from Portugal, Centro Internacional de Artes José de Guimarães, Guimarães, Bi-lingual edition, p:89 - Portuguese / p: 349 English.
Price, N. Rebecca Bair et Karice Mitchell, Together/Apart. CielVariable 123 (2023).
Shihab, N. Home and Back Home. In Routledge Handbook on Arab Cinema. Routledge, 2024.
Silver, E. Suzy Lake: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2021.
Silver, E. Taking Place: Building Histories of Queer and Feminist Art in North America. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Silver, E. What Would Natalie Brettschneider Do? In Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2021, 9-28.
Thauberger, A. The photographic act as ceremony and witness: Interview with Marianne Nicolson. Episode 1, July 20, 2020.
Valadares, D. Thinking Like a Gulch: Pacific War Heritage, Settler Lands, and Toxic Uncertainties in O‘ahu. In Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative. Toxics Project. 2023.
Valadares, D. Uneven Mobilities: Infrastructural Imaginaries on The Hope-Princeton Highway. In The Radical History Review 147 (2023): 158-185. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-10637232.
Valadares, D. Conjuring the Commons: National Monuments as Technical Lands. In Technical Lands: A Critical Primer, edited by C. Waldheim and J. Nesbit, 2022. JOVIS Verlag.
Willard, T., & Duffek, K. eds. Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories. Vancouver: Figure.1, 2016.
Willard, T., Caverhill, H. & Pakasaar, H. NANITCH: Early Photographs of British Columbia from the Langmann Collection. North Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery, 2016.
Willard, T, & Ritter, K. eds. Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2012.
Zuo, Mila, “Can the West Speak? (Picturing the Quilting Point in Cambodian and Palestinian Cinemas),” Film-Philosophy journal 29:2 (2025). 479-506.
Zuo, Mila, Lee Jung Soo, Jasmine Sanau, Chuiwen Kong, and Jonathan Liu, “Tracing Troeung: Debilitation and Memory in Postcolonial Cinemas” (visual essay with text), Canadian Literature special issue “Swirling Into a Field of Life: Works in Conversation with Y-Dang Troeung” 261 (2025), eds. Christopher B. Patterson and Vinh Nguyen. 49-53.’
Public Talks, Presentations & Lectures
Amaratunga, Y. “Approaches to Community-Engaged Curating”, University of British Columbia, 3 March, 2025
Amaratunga, Y. “Curating Difficult Histories”, University of British Columbia, 30 January February, 2024.
Amaratunga, Y., Porto, N., Nakamura, F. Co-convenor for Museum of Anthropology Visual + Material Culture Research Seminar Series.
Barforoush, S. 25 Years In, UBC’s Journalism Program Faces the Age of AI. More info
Barforoush, S. Visual + Material Culture Research Seminar Series – Fall 2025. More info
Langford, M. “10 Surprising Things About the History of Photography in Canada,” Green College (residency) and Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, The University of British Columbia, 13 November 2025. Accessible online. Link to recording
Langford, M. “Where the Iconic Meets the Vernacular: Historiographies of Photographic Experience,” guest lecture, undergraduate seminar ARTH 345, Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, The University of British Columbia, 13 November 2025.
Langford, M. “Through Line 1: The Ebb and Flow of Illustration in A History of Photography in Canada, 1839–2010,” Photographic History Research Centre, Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage. Online series. 30 October 2025.
Lerner, J. "Non-innocent Object Lessons and Negative Images of Dwelling." Paper presented at Photography Caucus panel, chaired by Karla McManus. Universities Art Association of Canada Annual Conference, York University, October 16-18, 2025.
Lerner, J. "Photographic Storywork: Fostering Responsibility and Repair through Visual Examples and Media Histories." Conference on Race, Racialization, and Resistance: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Humanities, Seattle University, April 27, 2025.
Lerner, J. "Practicing Reflection and Social Justice Storytelling in Visual Culture Studies." International Teaching and Learning Cooperative Lilly Conference on Teaching for Active and Engaged Learning, San Diego, CA, January 9, 2025.
Lerner, J. "Teaching More-Than-Human Seeing: Implicated Views and Photographic Place-making." Visual and Material Culture Seminar, Museum of Anthropology, UBC, October 10, 2024.
Moser, G. “Extra-curricular: Photography, race and citizenship in Toronto’s University Settlement House, 1946-56,” Media History Research Centre, Concordia University, November 28, 2025.
Moser, G. “Extra-Curricular: photography, race, and education in the University Settlement House of Toronto, 1946-56,” TransCanadian Networks Seminar Series and the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, January 16, 2025.
Moser, G. “Extra-Curricular: photography, race, and education in the University Settlement House of Toronto, 1946-56,” TransCanadian Networks Seminar Series and the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, January 16, 2025.
Moser, G. “Becoming Collective Through the Archive,” with Denise Ryner and Sónia Vaz Borges, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, January 20, 2024.
O´Brian, J. “Photo Archives.” Presentation on a panel with Robert Kleyn, Roger Larry, and Elizabeth Zvonar, moderated by Helga Pakasaar, SlideNight IV, Gallery 881, Vancouver, 27 April 2024.
O´Brian, J. “John Scott: Firestorm.” Discussion with Sarah Milroy, McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg, Ontario, 8 December 2024; “Canadian Photographs.” Discussion with Geoffrey James, Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, 29 October, 2024.
Porto, N. Flickering across fields of photographic practice: fiction, matter, relatedness, assemblages, projections. Co-organizer and co-chair with Jillian Lerner (AHVA). Session C4 of the 2024 University Arts Association of Canada Conference, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. October 25, 2024.
Silver, E. Guest lecture at Dr. Kelly McCormick’s seminar HIST 585A: Topics in Cultural History, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 8 October 2025.
Silver, E. “Queers on the Run: A Nomadic Workshop in Queer Archives in Canada,” workshop, BC Lesbian and Gay Archives, City of Vancouver Archives, Vancouver, BC, 3 April 2025.
Zuo, Mila, “Asiatic Raciohorror,” American Studies Association conference, November 22, 2025, San Juan.
Zuo, Mila, “Cinna-matic aesthetics: towards the possibilities of Chinese-Islamic cosmological cinemas,” Middle East Studies Association Conference, November 14, 2025. Zoom.
Zuo, Mila, “Eerie Fascisms and Colonial Aphasia, or Can the West Speak (about Gaza)?,” Association for the Study of Arts of the Present conference, October 16, 2024, New York City, and at Film-Philosophy conference, July 2, 2024, Espinho.
Zuo, Mila, “De-Suturing Trauma: Re-enactment and Verbatim in Asian/American Documentary,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 16, 2024, Boston.
Curated Exhibitions
Amaratunga, Y. Broken Promises (touring 2020 – ongoing), Co-Curator with Sherri Kajiwara (Nikkei National Museum) and Leah Best, (Royal BC Museum)
Liu, A. Chung | Lind Gallery at UBC Library – Co-curator with April Liu. Exhibition developed through sustained engagement with Rare Books and Special Collections Library. More info
Exhibitions
Liu, April. Vitality: Iconic Images, Hidden Stories (April 2025 - present), Chinatown Storytelling Centre, an initiative of the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation. Curated by Carol Lee, Susanna Ng, and Ramona Mar.
Thauberger, Althea. 2025. Der Kleiekotzer (The Bran Puker). Remai Modern. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. More info
Films & Media
Liu, A. 2025. The Prop Master's Dream documentary. World premiere at VAFF. More info