Photomonitor has been working in partnership with the Photography Department and bookRoom at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, where a team of academic creatives were ‘in residence’ at Photomonitor 2023-2025. As part of this residency, we have commissioned new online features and offered opportunities to emerging photography voices.
Since 2011, Photomonitor has supported photography and lens-based media, publishing images and texts from artists and writers around the world on our online platform. Founding editor Christiane Monarchi has enjoyed commissioning new thoughts on photography and promoting artists and writers in all stages of their careers. The online archive now includes more than 1,400 features, including portfolios, exhibition and book reviews, word+image experiments, essays and interviews with artists working in the UK and internationally.
Since 2023, 60 features have been created through the Photomonitor+UCA partnership; as this residency is now in its final months, we hope you enjoy the upcoming features.
Thank you for engaging with Photomonitor all of these years; we’ve really enjoyed discovering new ideas with you.
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The editors:
Christiane Monarchi editor-at-large
Christiane is the founding editor of Photomonitor, which has published more than 1,400 features since 2011. In 2020 she co-founded Hapax Magazine, a bi-annual print publication commissioning new photographic ideas. She regularly reviews artists’ portfolios, mentors artists and has served on the boards of several not-for-profit art institutions, including Photofusion. Currently she is a Trustee of the Centre for British Photography.
Dr Caroline Molloy co-editor
Caroline is an artist, academic and writer. She is the programme director of Fine Art and Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. She holds a PhD in Arts and Humanities, from Birkbeck, University of London, in the Centre for Photographic History and Theory; an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths UoL. She is part of Women in Photography and has worked closely with bookRoom at UCA. She is also a co-convener of the Family Ties Network. Her research interests are focused on the marginalised voice in both gender and post/decolonial colonial contexts.
David Rule co-editor
David leads the final year of the Photography BA (Hons) course at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. He holds an MA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. His practice involves photography and text and often takes the form of printed matter. He has founded and been a part of several small presses, including bookRoom at UCA, as part of the resurgence in self-publishing.
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé advisory editor
Emmanuelle is a London based academic, artist, composer and improviser interested in the materiality and musicality of language. She is Reader in Fine Art and Relational Practices and director of bookRoom, the experimental post-digital research and publishing platform at UCA Farnham. Her practice and research have evolved from the single discipline of Fine Art Photography into multiple interconnected work zones: conceptual writing, performance, new musical composition, publishing and curating.
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Past Interns:
Priyanka Pattni
Eleanor Bangert
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