WILD HOME: PHOTOGRAPHY, DOMESTICITY AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN BOUNDARIES IN FIELDWORK AND EXPEDITIONARY SCIENCE

Abstract

Drawing on archival research conducted at the Royal Society, London by _______an artist and accidental historian of Science, this paper will explore the borders and boundaries in the fluid domains of fieldwork photography and expeditionary science research stations. Through the story of Angela Bishop, the wife of an expedition leader to Central Brazil in the 1960s, this paper examines the borders between wild and domestic, public and private, institutional and autobiographical in the Royal Society Iain Bishop expedition photographic collection.

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Notes

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Funding

This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; Arts and Humanities Research Council [CDA PHD].